Hello! Gondwana 1.1 is out and thousands of visitors are coming :). It seems to make more noise than all the previous releases, which is great news. I invite you to participate to the noise by posting or contacting authors. There is no reason to not tell the world about our good work. And this will not prevent us from continuing our efforts to make the better children OS ever offered, as you'll read!
All the best, JM. PS: if you think that I forgot to mention an important news, feel free to answer this mail with your scoop! Team ===== * 4 people joined the team on Transifex this week: - Sławomir asked to join the Polish team - Tranzistors asked to join the Latvian team - Abuyop asked to join the Malay team - WilsonMint asked to join the Portuguese team Tranzistors and WilsonMint are already at work. As Malay CD translation is done, I proposed Abuyop to proofread translations on the CD, then help PureTech on the website. Welcome to our project! Organization =========== * Mirroring of DDL on ddl.be is a success! Our servers didn't seem to go down while serving more than 2.5 TB of files during 3-4 days as of writing (3,700 CD's). I recall that our mirror is transparently selected from the new download links of our website. We have detailed and accurate stats on CD numbers (CD/USB, DDL version, language, etc.) on our official web stats (http://stats.doudoulinux.org/). Just have a look at the menus “Visitors → Custom variables” and “Actions → Download”. * I'm experimenting Torrent files to download DDL [1]. This is not currently strictly necessary but it may become necessary in the future. It's better to be ready :). If you have the opportunity please participate and let few DDL CD's available for upload and report us about clients downloading through torrents. * Redmine: there are still tickets to be moved from our former project management software Gna. Please move/close the tickets you're owning, unless their history is huge. [1] http://download.doudoulinux.org/torrents/ [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/doudoulinux-dev@gna.org/msg00878.html Translations ============ * I'm sorry you did so much translation work during the past 2 weeks that I feel really lazy when it comes to list all the people that worked on so many languages :). Of course there was a reason: Gondwana 1.1! Congratulation for your huge work that brings still more credibility to our project. * In the meantime, Flavio Demenezes lead the Brazilian team to reach the amazing figure of 100% translated on Transifex [1]. Congratulations to the Brazilian team! [1] https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/doudoulinux/r/all-resources/ CDROM ====== * Gondwana 1.1 is out [1]. As said before it's already been downloaded for 2.5TB / 3,700 CD. Most downloaded languages [2] are English, French, Spanish, Russian. Then come German, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese. * Very good news from the ARM port: Gérald succeeded in automating nearly all the build process of Debian Linux on ARM (armel). Things are nearly ready to start the DDL port. Another good news is that armhf, a more recent and faster port of Linux on ARM, may be soon available with 3D graphics. * Gaurav started to compare parental controls tools to limit the hours of computer use [3]. He has already rejected 2 candidate solutions over the 4 selected ones. His work should be integrated in next Gondwana update. * Gaurav is also looking at an annoying bug in TBO [4]. This application is part of our development version 2011-08. [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/doudoulinux-dev@gna.org/msg00872.html [2] http://stats.doudoulinux.org/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=index&idSite=1&period=day&date=today#module=CustomVariables&action=index&idSite=1&period=day&date=today [3] http://team.doudoulinux.org/issues/122 [4] http://team.doudoulinux.org/issues/327 Graphics ======== * You've now seen the new banner on our website. * I have to wake up our drawers who have started hibernating long before winter has come ;). We're still waiting for additional CD artwork, website redesign, new logo integration, and even an official announce on our website for the end of the logo contest :(. Maybe they should move to the south hemisphere to escape their lethargy :p. Website ======= * Two new English articles (from me): “Download dailybuilds”, “Debian package repository”. In a near future they'll replace our badly looking pages of the Debian repository and the dailybuilds. Moreover, they'll be easier to translate. * Many new Malay articles thanks to PureTech – who is living near equator (this is the only explanation I found to his high activity :p): “Nota keluaran”, “Kawalan Ibu bapa”, “Permainan pendidikan”, “Aplikasi untuk bekerja”, “Menu Aktiviti”, “Panduan Ringkas”. * Sergey proposed the Russian versions of my English articles for publication (there is a micro-climate in south center Siberia, who would have guessed?): “Скачать промежуточные версии”, “Репозитарий пакетов Debian”. * Help wanted to guide Flavio in Spip, he just asked me to start writing pages in pt_BR. Maybe Salvatore because he wanted to start pt_PT pages soon? Communication ============= Concerning Wikipedia, the French page is now accepted and just requires minor fixes (glitches, details). Success is coming with this release and 10,000 visitors in 3-4 days :). A lot of website are telling about our new release, the most noticeable ones to me: * the so famous DistroWatch [1] in which we're ranking well as Xavier and Salvatore noticed [2][3] * opennet.ru [4] * the also famous Freshmeat (I wrote the news) [5] * linux-news.org (thanks to Salvatore who contacted Riccardo/Linuxaria) [6] * linuxin.dk (thanks to Joe who wrote the news) [7] * osworld.pl [8] * open-news.lv (thanks to Armands aka. Helijs from our Latvian team) [9] * under-linux.org (pt_BR ou pt_PT, não se) [10] * PureTech's blog [11] * oschina.net [12] * Linux2today (Arabic) [13] * creationn.wordpress.com (Romanian) [14] whose author asked to interview Marian, hope he'll accept :) [1] http://distrowatch.com/ [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/doudoulinux-dev@gna.org/msg00877.html [3] http://www.mail-archive.com/doudoulinux-dev@gna.org/msg00888.html [4] http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=31909 [5] http://freshmeat.net/projects/doudoulinux [6] http://linux-news.org/index.php/2011/10/01/doudoulinux-gondwana-update-1/ [7] http://linuxin.dk/node/18893 [8] http://osworld.pl/2011/10/01/doudoulinux-1-1/ [9] http://www.open-news.lv/7281-doudoulinux-1-1-beidzot-sagaidits [10] http://under-linux.org/liberado-doudou-linux-1-1-3480/ [11] http://www.sumbu.org/node/786 [12] http://www.oschina.net/news/21854/doudoulinux-1-1 [13] http://linux2day.org/new-distros/doudoulinux-1-1/ [14] http://creationn.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/doudoulinux-1-1/ Support ======= No news. _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-docs mailing list Doudoulinux-docs@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-docs
