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Since 2020, Next Generation Internet (NGI) programmes, part of European Commission’s Horizon programme, fund free software in Europe using a cascade funding mechanism (see for example NLnet’s calls). This year, according to the Horizon Europe working draft detailing funding programmes for 2025, we notice that Next Generation Internet is not mentioned any more as part of… read more |
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Fidus Writer 3.11.11 is not a major release, but it does contain some features that a lot of users have been waiting on for a long time. Most importantly: The ability to export comments on documents (and their answers) to DOCX and ODT files. Comments are exported directly to ODT files. In most cases that… read more |
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When creating a piece of software there are usually many ways it can be optimized. One aspect we didn’t even think about was the collaboration code. At the heart of our collaboration system is a JavaScript library called diffDOM: It can compare the difference between two websites. We take a snapshot before anything has changed… read more |
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We received an email after having shown Fidus Writer off at the Frankfurt Bookfair last fall to several of the university open access publishers. They wanted us to show the advantages of Fidus at their annual gathering in the East German town of Merseburg, just a few hours by train outside of Berlin. Three of… read more |
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In the last few months we have been able to meet a lot of people with interest in Fidus Writer. We would like to spend as much time as possible developing and helping people setup Fidus Writer. Unfortunately, we also need to spend some time finding funding for all this. We are now trying with… read more |
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We are happy to announce that we will host a workshop on this years Mozilla Festival the 27th of October in London from 11am – 1pm. We will be looking at what needs to be done about scientific publication on the net. You can join us to try top web based scientific editors and discuss… read more |