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p2k23 Hackathon Report: Volker Schlecht (volker@) on rust and erlang progress

Posted on by Michael G

We are pleased to have another
p2k23
report, this time from Volker Schlecht (volker@)
who writes:

“Ladies and Gentlemen, our plane is equipped with two engines, and I’m
afraid I need to tell you that the one that you see to your right won’t
start right now…”
As with
several
other
developers my trip to p2k23
didn’t exactly start off as planned.
Eventually the engine did start, though (and I’m glad to report it
stayed on, too) and I made it to Dublin.

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Open Source for Sustainability: How Linux Foundation projects accelerate progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Posted on by Michael G

Open Source for Sustainability: How Linux Foundation projects accelerate progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)Helping to solve global challenges through shared investment in open source technologies is a large part of the work we do at the Linux Foundation, and describing the impact of our project communities in this capacity – what progress is made, by whom, where, and how, and identifying what the obstacles are to furthering progress through data – is the mission of LF Research. 

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GNU Health: Caminos Cruzados and GNU Solidario join forces in healthcare for Gambia with GNU Health

Posted on by Michael G

We’re very happy to announce that “Caminos cruzados”, a Spanish non-for-profit organization, has signed an agreement with GNU Solidario to implement GNU Health in health institutions from Gambia.

GNU Health: Caminos Cruzados and GNU Solidario join forces in healthcare for Gambia with GNU Health

María Eugenia Ramos, president of the organization traveled to Gran Canaria to meet with Luis Falcón, president of GNU Solidario to formalize the agreement and to plan the next actions in the Gambia.

During three days, we went through the main functionality of the GNU Health HMIS, with focus in the areas of Social Medicine, Primary Care and Public Health.

Classroom before the renovation (source: Caminos Cruzados)

Caminos Cruzados and GNU Solidario share the goals of health and education and indivisible entities. In fact education is health, and there is no healthy person or society without education.

Current state of some classrooms after renovation process (Source: Caminos Cruzados)

In the area of health, the NGO collaborates with the Ndungu Kebbeh health center, that takes care of a population around 8000 people, in addition to the surrounding villages.

Ndungu Kebbeh health center (Source: Caminos Cruzados)

We are very excited about this agreement, and can’t wait to start collaborating with Caminos Cruzados and the local team in Gambia to implement GNU Health in the different Health institutions. GNU Health will definitely help optimizing the internal processes and resources in the health institutions, and most importantly, will contribute to optimize the health promotion and disease prevention programs for the betterment of their people.

Resources:

Caminos Cruzados: http://www.caminoscruzados.org

GNU Solidario: https://www.gnusolidario.org

GNU Health: https://www.gnuhealth.org

Servo improves WebGPU support, gets new browser UI

Posted on by Michael G
Servo, the Rust browser engine originally developed by Mozilla, has posted an update about the project’s progress over the past month, and there’s a lot of good stuff in there. While our WebGPU support is still very much experimental (–pref dom.webgpu.enabled), it now passes over 5000 more tests in the Conformance Test Suite, after an upgrade from wgpu 0.6 (2020) to 0.16 (2023) and the addition of GPUSupportedFeatures. A few WebGPU demos now run too, notably those that don’t require changing the width or height on the fly, such as the Conway’s Game of Life built in Your first WebGPU app. On the CSS front, floats and ‘white-space: nowrap’ were previously only supported in our legacy layout engine (–legacy-layout), but now they are supported again, and better than ever before! Floats in particular are one of the trickiest parts of CSS2, and our legacy version had many bugs that were essentially unfixable due to the legacy layout architecture. On top of this and other improvements, Servo’s reference browser now also comes with a new user interface, and it comes with a location bar! Keep in mind this is not supposed to be a full-fledged user interface comparable with Chrome or Firefox, so don’t expect the world as a user.

Jacob Rockowitz: Providing an Ambitious Site Builder Experience using the Schema.org Blueprints Demo profile and module

Posted on by Michael G

The Schema.org Blueprints module is a comprehensive solution for leveraging Schema.org’s content models to create the ideal content authoring experience to provide an API-first and SEO-friendly website. Besides building a great content model, the Schema.org Blueprints module with additional contributed modules can provide an ambitious site builder experience. To demonstrate an ideal site-building and content-authoring experience, I created a demo installation profile and module.

The Schema.org Blueprints Demo Profile is a simplified version of the Drupal Core’s Standard installation profile, with some features disabled and others enabled. For example, the Comment and Contact modules are not automatically enabled. Meanwhile, the Media module is enabled and properly configured. Additionally, Drupal’s default ‘Article’ content type is not created because it does use media, and the Schema.org Blueprints modules can easily recreate it using media. The Schema.org Blueprints Demo Profile sets up the ideal starting point for installing and configuring modules via the Schema.org Demo module.

The Schema.org Demo module consists of four sub-modules that set up different aspects of an ambitious site builder experience. The main module’s README.md includes more details and installation instructions. Many contributed modules are installed via the demo, and each module’s decisions and use cases are documented in the DECISIONS.md.

Building this demo of the Schema.org Blueprints module can feel overwhelming. Please watch the video below for a step-by-step…Read More