On April 30, at London's Southbank Centre, an extraordinary cast of readers – including Philippe Sands, Tom Stoppard, Niklas Frank, whose father was Adolf Hitler's lawyer, and Susan Pollack, who survived the camp – gathered to mark 70 years since the publication of this seminal account of humanity at its most brutal. Across five episodes, in collaboration with the Southbank Centre, we bring you the full, live recording of the event, part of the Belief and Beyond Belief festival, exploring what it means to be human. This performance was directed by Nina Brazier with music directed by Tomo Keller and performed by Raphael Wallfisch, Tomo Keller, Robert Smissen, Simon Wallfisch and Lada Valesova; the event was devised by A. L. Kennedy and Philippe Sands, in collaboration with Ted Hodgkinson, Senior Programmer for Literature and Spoken Word at the Southbank Centre. You'll find all episodes on the-tls.co.ukChapters 1–3 read by: human-rights lawyer Philippe Sands QC; author A. L. Kennedy; actors Samuel West...
With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Frances Wilson on how Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions of 1789 laid the foundations for the messy modern memoir; TLS commissioning editor Mika Ross-Southall on a strange new exhibition of Picasso's work that examines his career-long engagement with minotaurs and matadors; Lorna Scott Fox rediscovers Leonora Carrington, an almost-forgotten radical artist-thinker for our fragile times.
One of the goals we have here at PIXLS.US is to help Free Software projects however we can, and one of those ways is to focus on things that we can do well that might help make things easier for the projects.
It may not be much fun for project developers to deal with websites or community outreach necessarily.
This is something I think we can help with, and recently we had an opportunity to do just that with the awesome folks over at the photo management project digiKam.
As part of a post announcing the release of digiKam 5.5.0 on discuss. we learned that they were in need of a new webmaster, and they needed something soon to migrate away from Drupal 6 for security reasons.
They had a rudimentary Drupal 7 theme setup, but it was severely lacking (non-responsive and not adapted to the existing content).
The previous digiKam website, running on Drupal 6.
The new digiKam website! Great work Mica!
Mica (@paperdigits) reached out to Gilles Caulier and the digiKam community and offered our help, which they accepted!
At that point Mica gathered requirements from them and found in the end that a static website would be more than sufficient for their needs.
We coordinated with the KDE folks to get a git repo setup for the new website, and rolled up our sleeves to start building!
Mica chose to use the Hugo static-site generator to build the site with.
This was something new for us, but turned out to be quite fast and fun to work with (it generates the entire digiKam site in just about 5 seconds).
Coupled with a version of the Foundation 6 blog theme we were able to get a base site framework up and running fairly quickly.
We scraped all of the old site content to make sure that we could port everything as well as make sure we didn’t break any urls along the way.
We iterated some design stuff along the way, ported all of the old posts to markdown files, hacked at the theme a bit, and finally included comments that are now hosted on discuss.
What’s wild is that we managed to pull the entire thing together in about 6 weeks total (of part-time working on it).
The digiKam team seems happy with the results so far, and we’re looking forward to continue helping them by managing this infrastructure for them.
A big kudos to Mica for driving the new site and getting everything up and running.
This was really all due to his hard work and drive.
This is the same category that news posts from the website will post in, so feel free to drop in and say hello or share some neat things you may be working on with digiKam!
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