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summary
Janayugom migrates its entire pre-press workflow to free software, replacing Windows and Adobe with Scribus + KDE Plasma on a Kubuntu base, serving 100k readers. Team builds a Qt ASCII→Unicode converter called Janayugom Edit, authors three Malayalam Unicode fonts, trains ~100 staff over a month, runs a one-month pilot then flips fully on Nov 1 with official announcement. Workflow largely works, but some printer drivers and feature gaps in Scribus require fixes and hardware replacements.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 1:07Newspaper migration to free software
- 4:24KDE-based custom distro setup
- 8:12Why choose KDE Plasma
- 11:22Scribus background and Unicode fonts
- 13:58Training and adoption challenges
- 16:31Public announcement and media coverage
- 18:36Future consortium and project expansion
- 19:41Q&A session
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