Inkscape is a free and open-source vector graphics editor; it can be used to create or edit vector graphics such as illustrations, diagrams, line arts, charts, logos and complex paintings.

LAST COURSE BEFORE SUMMER
WE CONTINUE IN SEPTEMBER
DATES WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON!

The spreadsheet for everyone
Calc is the spreadsheet program you’ve always needed. Newcomers find it intuitive and easy to learn, while professional data miners and number crunchers appreciate the comprehensive range of advanced functions. Built-in wizards guide you through choosing and using a comprehensive range of advanced features. Or you can download templates from the LibreOffice template repository, for ready-made spreadsheet solutions.

Key: R20101212-142740-levels This is the first of a set of long-overdue posts that I meant to write quite a while back–about photography tools that run under Linux.  I write this to 1) make a…

Source: A Linux-based Photography Workflow (part 1) | Red Skies at Night

There is plenty of Free/Libre Software but SweetHome3d is one of the most funny (and usefull).
Create your house and room and see what it would look like.

In this course we will show the basics. Come and spread the word! Alter Schlachthof Wels, #refugeeswelcome

we are making a movie

• day 1: brainstorming, write the story and script
• day 2: make the video shots
• day 3: cut the movie
• day 4: presentation with chips and popcorn! Yippie!

With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community.

Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century.

Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is provided free of charge

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‫شود‪.‬‬ ‫اضافه‬ ‫تا‬ ‫کنید‬ ‫انتخاب‬ ‫را‬ ‫نظر‬ ‫مورد‬ ‫پنجره‬ ‫شده‬ ‫باز‬ ‫لیست‬ ‫در‬ ‫و‬ ‫کنید‬ ‫کلیک‬ ‫‪Add‬‬ ‫‪tab‬‬ ‫دکمه‬

I want to work with my computer in my own language. How do I switch to Persian, German or any other language?

There are several ways to do this:

Logout and login with a different language

first click on the whisker menu and the power-icon or press the power-button of your computer.
as a second step do not “shutdown” your computer but click “Log Out”.

You will be dropped to a new login window saying “kalliope” (or your username).

On the right top corner of the screen you see an Icon saying for example “en_US” or “de_AT”.
This is the language used if you login now (username: kalliope, password: kalliope. remember?).

You can now change this language before login to the one you wish.

As a practice do it now. Change the language for example to german and login.

The computer will no prompt icons an menus in german language.
that was it. you can know work in your native language or switch to german if you are learning etc..

Note: in some languages not everything is translated and you will see some english expressions, too.

Practice: now log out again and try another language or go back to english.

I switched the language to Arabic but the keyboard is still Latin/english. how can I switch the keyboard language?

if your language uses other characters and fonts (e.g. arabic, greek) you must activate these keyboard layouts additionally.

Click on the Whisker Menu and go to “Settings”, choose “Keyboard” and click it

In the opening keyboard-settings window you unchoose “Use system defaults”
click on the add button and a “Keyboard layout selection” will be prompted.
choose one or more additional languages. in future these keyboard layouts will be available to you.

The order of the keyboards show is the order it will be switched (see below) and the topmost is the default keyboard layout after startup

So how do I now switch between the keyboard layouts?

The fastest way to switch layouts is a “keyboard shortcut”. These tricky keyboard-shortcuts are used in several situations and can be very helpful. No panic, the ones you need you will remember soon.

configure a keyboard shortcut for layout changing:

open –>  settings –> keyboard –> Layout again

click on “Change layout option” and choose “ALT-SHIFT”
after that close the window

Practice: go to –> Accessories –> Mousepad. The program will open, it is a so called “Text-Editor”.  A very simple program to write and save text messages.

Begin writing something, then press ALT-SHIT, go on writing. Repeat this and the language you write will change every time you hit ALT-SHIFT

My Computer has a german keyboard layout. When working in arabic (or others) how do I find the correct keys?

First you have to decide whether you need the german layout in future (for example to learn Deutsch). If not, you can get some stickers to clue on the keyboard.

You can find templates in the internet. If you search google or any other search engine for “keyboard stickers arabic” (e.g.) you find templates.

If you attend our courses in Wels you can ask for printouts, we do some.

You can download our templates: arabic-a4

The second variant is to use a onscreen keyboard to help you find the keys

Open Whisker Menu -> Accessories -> Onboard

The Onboard keyboard will always show your currently used keyboard layout. So if you switch to e.g. arabic, it will will show that

If the Onboard keyboard is to large and/or hiding things you need to see, you can move, resize and close the window with the controls on the right side. Resizing is done on the edges like other regular windows.