Hello there! This week was quite unusual indeed, but not because of the proximity of the release date. This week I received 5 requests for contributing, which lead to the start of Italian and Swedish translations, but this is not all. This week I also received what I believe to be two really strong signals for our project: the OIN contacted me to offer its protection and the Linux genealogical tree now officially mentions DoudouLinux as a child of the famous Debian distribution (see end of this mail).
Concerning the OIN (Open Invention Network – http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/), I'll give you more details in a dedicated mail. Shortly this is an organization whose goal is to protect free software projects from the awful patent threat. Among its 300 subscribers are top free software supporter companies: Google, Facebook, Mozilla, IBM, Novell, RedHat, etc. They asked me to join their organization, and I'm just about to do this because I don't want our project to collapse because of stupid patents. As a result it seems that we are no more considered as a small initiative of few computer enthusiasts, we are becoming a must-visit distro for kids, then later I hope *the* must-visit distro for kids! :) We are on the good way… Cheers, JM. Team ==== * We welcomed 3 new Chinese contributors: lidashuang, Donghui and SamSongCn. Benheng has to start discussions to know what task best fit their skills. * We welcomed a new Italian contributor who is already at work: Luca. * We welcomed our first Swedish contributor who is already at work too: Lars. Welcome on board! Translations ============ * I received a lot of translation files for Chinese (Benheng), Dutch (FrenchR), Italian (Luca), Romanian (Marian), Russian (TSPU), Spanish (Yago) and Swedish (Lars). This is good news since our next release is planned for the end of this week ;). * The Transifex resource “website-download” now has a new message “Swedish” because we'll need to show this new language on our website. Please update your translations for next release! * Please check translations in the application and category icon files (*.desktop and *.directory) even if they're already in these files. The reference language are English and French and may have been modified to match our audience, children. CDROM ===== I already inform you that our feature list is frozen for next release. I'll update our road map and our release notes as soon as possible. * The very first Swedish CD was built and is being uploaded to our dailybuild section (http://download.doudoulinux.org/dailybuild/). * GCompris now ships with English sounds when translations are not available in order to avoid an error message. * All languages can now switch between at least 3 keyboard layouts using Shift+Alt: Qwerty, Azerty and Qwertz. This is necessary to let people run a foreign language with the correct keymap (see https://gna.org/task/?6943). * New activities (sessions) defined by TSPU are now completed. They are called “Kid DDL” and “Junior DDL” to avoid a reference to children age. They are not shown by default, you need to use the new tool to set the menu of activities. Graphics ======== * I met Elisa and Benoît and they think they'll be able to draw about 10 background images that tell a short story in the coming 3 months. We talked about what should our artwork carry, you'll know more in our private section as soon as we find the necessary time to write about it… * The banner to announce next release will show our first characters: the kind witch and the knight. Website ======= * Benheng published the first Chinese pages. * Denis started to work on Dutch pages. * New public page to be reviewed/translated: The menu of activities (see http://www.doudoulinux.org/web/ecrire/?exec=articles&id_article=290) * New private page: Organizing communication campaigns (see http://www.doudoulinux.org/web/private/). * We moved to a new web server. The previous one had power supply issues so they proposed me to change of server. This is the reason why we had so many downtimes during the past 2-3 weeks. * Tarballs of translation files have been updated since they were missing the application and category icon files (*.desktop and *.directory files). Communication ============= NB: no communication on behalf of us this week. * Tonight Google is reporting 235,000 entries for the single keyword “doudoulinux”!!! This was 40,000 “only” in early January. * Poland is still speaking about DDL, we now have a translated version of our template article thanks to GDR (see http://gdr.pastebin.pl/36538). * A Turkish entry on www.wifi-turk.com forum (see http://www.wifi-turk.com/forum/index.php?s=05e766c88da9b3c2a3fc222aba107811&showtopic=4892&pid=31683&st=0&#entry31683). * Glyn, an web author, is preparing an article for a high traffic website: http://www.techsupportalert.com/ (2 millions visitors/month). He contacted me this week to tell me the news (and report network connection issues with DDL :( ). * DDL will be presented the 26th February during a Linux/FLOSS day organized by a local French free software association (see http://www.agendadulibre.org/showevent.php?id=5731). * DDL officially one of the youngest children of the famous Debian distribution (see http://futurist.se/gldt/wp-content/uploads/11.02/gldt1102.svg). Support ======= * I forgot to tell that Sergey managed to enlist 3 major universities of his country to start intensive testing of DDL. Hope they won't find too many bugs… ;) _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev
