Seth Kenlon

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New Zealand (South Island)

Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.

Open Source Super Star Moderator's Choice Award 2011 Best Interview Award 2017 Author 100+ Contributions Club Columnist Contributor Club

Authored Content

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Try a new game on Free RPG Day

Celebrate tabletop role-playing games and get free RPG materials at your local game shop on June 15.

video editing dashboard

Manage multimedia files with Git

Learn how to use Git to track large multimedia files in your projects in the final article in our series on little-known uses of Git.

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Run a server with Git

Thanks to Gitolite, you can manage a Git server with Git. Learn how in our series about little-known Git uses.

5 tools to support distributed sysadmin teams

File sharing with Git

SparkleShare is an open source, Git-based, Dropbox-style file sharing application. Learn more in our series about little-known uses of Git.

How to create outlines in Linux with TreeLine

How writers can get work done better with Git

If you're a writer, you could probably benefit from using Git. Learn how in our series about little-known uses of Git.

Team communication, chat

Use Git as the backend for chat

GIC is a prototype chat application that showcases a novel way to use Git.

Authored Comments

9 Sep 2020

5 open source alternatives to Slack for team chat

Hadn't heard of that one. Looks cool, I'll have to try it out!

8 Sep 2020

How to install software with Ansible

There's a generic package manager module for Ansible, covered in an upcoming article.