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Beth Kanter and that i completed our week being mentors for the Young Caucasus Women Project. Last Sunday each of us wrote a post to reply the question, “Who is your favorite artist (visible, dancer, performer, writer or musician) and why? ” Here is Beth’s publish and right here is mine. Through the week the young girls in this system from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia wrote their own posts answering the question, we commented on their posts and so they commented on one another’s posts.

On Friday our mentor cycle ended and a brand new one will begin with a new mentor blogger tomorrow (Sunday). The undertaking will continue through the spring and into early summer. I’m pretty positive all of the mentoring positions are taken for this venture, however Ore, who was one of the mentors for this venture, is going to be starting an analogous undertaking for younger Nigerian women.

Change Me: The power of Imagery to Create Change. It is a venture of the Getty Museum. Anyone can submit a picture that inspires them and that they think will contact or affect the individual viewing it. 10 to Friends of the worldwide Fight Against AIDS, TB and Malaria. They are in search of 30 to 60 second “issue movies” (reside action or animated) made by United States residents ages 18-26. I think we’ll see an increasing number of corporations getting getting in on this action. If you know of more cool initiatives or individual artists using art for social change, I’d love to listen to about them. You possibly can put the data.

9. There is a bewildering multitude of Linux distributions. At the identical time, while you look past the floor, there’s really not so much distinction. Upstream, people and companies are creating nice issues. Like the Linux kernel, internet browsers Firefox and Chrome, workplace suites like Libre Office, media players like VLC, et cetera.

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Downstream, the Linux distributions are being made: someone collects a number of these good upstream things. Then he glues them along with a glue of his personal making, with a purpose to make them work properly collectively. And lo and behold: there’s a brand new Linux distribution for you. Linux distribution off the shelves, provides some stuff and tweaks of his personal, and yet another Linux distribution is born.

In that means, Ubuntu takes Debian off the shelves, and Mint in its turn takes Ubuntu off the shelves. There aren’t any intellectual property obstacles to all of this: share and share alike. It’s free (libre) and open-supply software program. Note: that is an oversimplification of the legal framework of open source software program; it’s solely meant to sketch the large image. So, there’s truly much much less range than there appears to be at first look.

Still, it does matter which Linux distribution you choose. Not all Linux distributions are equal in high quality, stability and reliability. Linux Mint is at the moment, in my opinion, the finest that the Linux ecosystem has to supply. It’s long term supported with updates (up to 5 years), it has a great quality management and a huge amount of installable software program in its software repositories. Furthermore, it is simple to use.