Query results: January, 2008

Just a short note to confirm that we are not indeed spending all our time traveling to conferences. ;-)

We are finalizing the installation of Pootle and Poliglota, the two server applications which will manage the translation of our websites. This isn’t a long-term theoretical milestone anymore: the install works fully, and we are fixing non-critical bugs.

I would say that we are days, not weeks, away from a release. This project induces big changes in the way we have always worked so far, and so requires a lot of preparation. Thank you everyone for your patience and understanding, while most of our spare time goes into this.

The 24th Chaos Communication Congress (24C3) closed its doors last Sunday in Berlin. Olivier gave a talk there and otherwise thoroughly enjoyed the event ;-)

The conference was the last edition of “Overtaking Proprietary Software Without Writing Code“. The video recording (100MB, mkv¹) is of excellent quality and features legible slides, clear audio, and video mixing. The talk slides (ODT or PDF) are also available separately. Finally, a two-page-excerpt has been published in the Congress Proceedings – all are available under a CC-BY-SA license.

Some very special thanks go to the CCC crew who participated towards travel costs and did such a superb job organising and running the congress.

We’re now heading to various other events in Europe with other conferences to come. See you there!

1. the video format is OGG Theora inside a Matroska container. It can be read using the VLC program. Alternatively, an mpeg-4 (mp4) version is available. [↩]