Hello, This week I'm very pleased to announce that I added a new section in this newsletter: graphics. As you'll see our project is still moving forward, faster and faster, even if we're late on code development :(. But as we're going very fast on many other topics, I won't blame anybody, starting with me! :p
Cheers, JM. Team ==== * We welcomed a new contributor for Russian on TransiFex: Boobaloo. * We welcomed our first two graphic designer: Elisa and Benoît. They're French and Elisa can speak Spanish and Portuguese too, English a bit of course. * I started to poll our most active contributors to prepare the next communication campaign in March. Translations ============ * I received fresh PO files for Dutch (Denis, Wamukota, FrenchR), Romanian (Marian), Russian (Boobaloo, TSPU), Spanish (Yago) and Chinese (Benheng, Nagiosfree). * German has started thanks to the university of Tomsk (Sergey). Students are working on the translation task, their names are Julia Pak and Ruslan Trigubets. * Benheng did a great job for Childsplay translation. Childsplay was not able to use a font for Chinese natively. So he patched it, added missing translation messages and changed images displaying texts. I created a new resource on Transifex, you can produce modified images as well. → Documentation page wanted to tell how Childsplay can be translated. CDROM ===== * The first official Chinese CD is almost ready, it is based on version 2010-11 (see http://download.doudoulinux.org/dailybuild/). Book an appointment for the Chinese new year feast on the 3rd February! * Still based on 2010-11, new versions for Dutch, Romanian, Russian and Spanish are available on the dailybuild section (see http://download.doudoulinux.org/dailybuild/). * I started an interface to set the session menu (see https://gna.org/task/index.php?7300). * Finally the latest Gamine version is running on DDL after a second bug was fixed upstream. It is now shipped with all the new CD builds from 2011-01. Please test it! Graphics ======== * Elisa and Benoît started to think of a story and characters that could animate our CD. First sketches to be released soon, be patient! * Elisa started to work on a new website banner for next release. * She also looked at organizing the huge design work in a mind map. We have to set priorities and she plans to use our task list on Gna. A road map for graphics should also be published on our website to incite new drawers to come and help. Website ======= * Yago translated new Spanish pages. * The Tip and tricks English page has been updated. * I setup our very new website private section on Spip: http://www.doudoulinux.org/web/private/. You need a Spip account to access, please ask me if you don't have one! We'll discuss in this area all the topics that are personal or quite strategic (we'll build our future together), particularly graphic design. * Sergey updated Transifex links in translation status pages. They were wrong after the move to Transifex release 1.0. * Richard proofread English updates and new Spanish pages. * I updated the PDF documentation online and generated the first Spanish documentation (see http://www.doudoulinux.org/web/english/documentation-7/). * I switched all comment validation on our guest books to “a priori” because spam is coming: visitor messages are no more published until we validate them. Communication ============= * We are listed by TuxPaint as a promoting distro for their great software (see http://www.tuxpaint.org/links/#distributors). * Seen an entry in Ubuntu.se (Sweden) about the article on WebUpd8 (see http://ubuntu.se/content.php/358-Doudoulinux-A-Linux-Distribution-Especially-Designed-For-Kids). * Still in the Ubuntu community, user RastaTux has a signature advertising about us! (see http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/profile.php?id=75000) * Our first real article in Turkish: see http://ankabilisim.org/2011/01/cocuklar-icin-gnulinux/. It was announced in the feed aggregator of… Ubuntu-tr! * We are officially supported by the following tools (web page wanted!): - Pendrive Linux, to install an ISO CD onto an USB key (see http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/) - Multi CD, to put several ISO's on a single DVD (see http://multicd.tuxfamily.org/#SupportedDistros) Support ======= * Closed 3 bugs related to PDF documentation (see https://gna.org/bugs/?16925, https://gna.org/bugs/?17364, https://gna.org/bugs/?17450) * I added task ticket categories related to graphic design. _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev
