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Improving the Mixxx developer experience with maintainable build infrastructure

Tue 23 February 2021 Be. 2.3, builds, infrastructure

Since we published Mixxx 2.3 beta in June 2020, you may have been wondering what has taken so long to get the 2.3.0 release out. Well, we have been very busy the past few months building a more sustainable technical infrastructure for the Mixxx project. We have …

About my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ: Career goals

Mon 22 February 2021 Aanyu Deborah Oduman personal, outreachy, internship

As the outreachy internship program draws closer to an end, the question that comes to mind is "What next?". In this blog post, I write about what I hope to achieve in terms of my career path and the various skills that I have gained through this internship that could help me achieve some of my goals.

About my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ: Week 12 progress

Sun 21 February 2021 Aanyu Deborah Oduman personal, outreachy, internship, manual

This is the twelfth weekly progress report of my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ.

This week:

• I added the step by step tutorial on deck cloning for playing with a single turntable. See pull request #330 I plan to do the same for beat juggling, but I want to get …

About my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ: Week 11 progress

Sun 14 February 2021 Aanyu Deborah Oduman personal, outreachy, internship

This is the eleventh weekly progress report of my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ.

This week:

• I successfully added rekordbox (and its icon) to the list of supported libraries in this pull request that I opened a long while ago – I was documenting the rekordbox library import.
• I also started …

New in 2.3: Importing tracks and cues from Serato

Mon 08 February 2021 Jan Holthuis 2.3, serato, library

As all of you probably know, Mixxx is the best DJ software in the market. However, we've recently been made aware that a minor competitor has emerged and tries to steal that title from us - Serato DJ Pro. The hardware support is nice, but since Serato is neither open-source nor …

About my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ: Week 10 progress

Sun 07 February 2021 Aanyu Deborah Oduman personal, outreachy, internship, manual

This is the tenth weekly progress report of my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ.

This week:

• I made the necessary edits to the YouTube tutorial about the Mixxx community and uploaded it to YouTube. Here is the link.
• I had a brief video call with community team leaders from the …

About my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ: Week 9 progress

Mon 01 February 2021 Aanyu Deborah Oduman personal, outreachy, internship, manual

This is the ninth weekly progress report of my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ.

This week:

• I made a pull request #203 for this issue that I had filed to correct the broken link to Paul Bloch of open Artist (creator of the Mixxx logo).
• I recorded the video tutorial …

About my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ: Contributing to open source amid Uganda’s internet restrictions

Sun 24 January 2021 Aanyu Deborah Oduman personal, outreachy, internship

In the days leading up to the Ugandan election, access to major social media platforms and circumvention tools was blocked. This internet shutdown and the social media ban that followed affected many online jobs and businesses, my internship with Mixxx under the Outreachy program was no exception.

About my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ: Week 8 progress

Sun 24 January 2021 Aanyu Deborah Oduman personal, outreachy, internship, manual

This is the eighth weekly progress report of my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ.

This week:

• Has been a little bit slow, to be honest. Internet speeds are much slower now because of all the Virtual Private connections that have now become the new normal.
• I wrote a script for …

About my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ: Week 7 progress

Sun 17 January 2021 Aanyu Deborah Oduman personal, outreachy, internship, manual

This is the seventh weekly progress report of my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ.

This week:

• I created a YouTube channel for Mixxx tutorials and posted the first video. Its an installation tutorial for Windows OS. Here is the link to the YouTube video. This was early in the week …