Máirín Duffy

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Boston, Massachusetts USA

Máirín is a senior principal interaction designer at Red Hat. She is passionate about software freedom and free & open source tools, particularly in the creative domain: her favorite application is Inkscape (http://inkscape.org).

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Heard of the GNOME Outreach Program for Women? Learn more today.

Starting this past December, the GNOME Outreach Program for Women (OPW) welcomed a new crop of promising young female contributors to several open source projects. These women…

A look back at open source creative tools in 2012

For all of you free and open source creative tool fans out there, plenty of exciting developments happened over the past year—and there's some pretty awesome new things in the…

A tour through open source creative tools

Every tool in this talk is available via Fedora 17, the latest version of Fedora. Here's a quick rundown of the tools represented in this talk. MyPaint and Krita are fantastic…

Three tips for working with open source diagrams

If you're a big-time open source fanatic like me, you probably get questions about open source alternatives to proprietary tools rather frequently. From the 'Alternatives to…

Introducing Open Source to A Middle School

There are so many compelling reasons for children to use open source. If they develop skills and a body of work using open source software, it can follow them through high…

Authored Comments

mairin

26 Jan 2018

7 awesome new Inkscape features and how to use them

Onyeibo - have you seen the Fedora design team howto I wrote on CMYK conversion in Scribus? That's the process I follow. Has worked with many vendors for some years now. Is that process not working for you?

mairin

25 Jan 2018

7 awesome new Inkscape features and how to use them

Zeeshan - yep. Pretty much all Fedora swag produced in the past 10 years was produced with a workflow that involved Gimp, Inkscape, and Scribus. CMYK is easy in Scribus.