Query results: December, 2007

I am back from Extremadura, Spain, where I attended for four days to the 10th HispaLinux International Congress. It was a wonderful event, well-organized by Iniciativa Focus, HispaLinux and the Government of Extremadura, who made an excellent job, by the way.

I met many people from several countries, who work in Free Software-related organizations as well. I also gave a conference titled “La importancia de los usuarios no informáticos en el triunfo del software libre” (The Importance of Non-Technical Users for Free Software to Win), whose slides are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Spain License.

The conference was recorded by Iniciativa Focus, and should be online soon; I will update this post when I know it’s been released.

I thank the organizers for supporting us, helping us to make our projects known within the Free Software community (and beyond) and, especially, for the excellent treatment I received for the last four days.

PS: There’s also a PDF edition of the slides.

PPS: As of Jan 21st, 2008, the video of the conference has not been published, yet.

It has almost become a motto that much of what we work on isn’t immediately visible to the usual visitor — it will still be so in the coming month, as we complete our behind-the scenes shuffling and organization. Some minor updates for the past ten days, sorted by increasing importance:

• We are moving things around; a single legal terms page will be used for all sites, our FAQ has moved to the present site;
• GetGNULinux.org will feature a number of small changes and simplifications very soon, the majority are ready now;
• There’s an overview of the events we take part in in a new page, meet us there! ; The who’s who page is updated.
• Gustavo is currently attending the HispaLinux annual meeting, in Extremadura (Spain) talking about The Importance of Non-Technical Users for Free Software To Triumph.
• The porting of GetGNULinux.org to gettext, necessary for our translation system to be complete, is approximately 50% done. We have invested in some VPS hosting and the installation is running correctly. We missed our deadline somewhat but the end is in sight, and the biggest obstacles should now have been overcome.

We won’t fail, of course, to announce more details in due time.

GNU/Linux Matters is proud to announce the release of the GLM Translation Service, a Pootle-powered website for translators to do their job through the world wide web.

This is a notable milestone is the short history of the organization; since the beginning of the GetGNULinux.org project, translators had to install an editor and a subversion client, learn subversion and learn some XHTML… Now that’s history: Anyone with a web-browser and a very little idea of what XHTML is, can be a translator.

For the time being, the GetGNULinux.org project is the only ready to be translated through Pootle. Ports of the other websites will begin shortly. –> read it all