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Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD team packs 2012 have been shipped

by সাজেদুর রহিম জোয়ারদ ার

Dear Pockey Hope you are fine. We, FOSS Bangladesh had received our SFD team packs 2012. The banner and DVD's are ok. Balloons, T-Shirls and the Stickers are very nice. We are very happy to get these gifts and we will share it with the participants of the events. We are organizing SFD-2012 events in three venues at Dhaka and Rajshahi, simultaneously this year. We are short of balloons. Hope SFI will send more than 50 balloons to us in 2013. [?] Please let us know the process we follow to reproduce them here in Bangladesh as you mentioned about the T-Shirt Stickers. With Thanks -- রিং/ring +8801671411437 মহাসচিব/General Secretary ফাউন্ডেশন ফর ওপেন সোর্স সলিউশনস বাংলাদেশ/Foundation for Open Source Solutions Bangladesh

Sept. 10, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] the wiki, the site, and going i11l

by María Leandro

Awesome, thx! 2012/9/9 Marcos Marado <mindboosternoori(a)gmail.com> > Hi there, > > On Friday 07 September 2012 14:29:54 María Leandro wrote: > > Hello. > > > > 2012/9/6 Frederic Muller - DFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > > > > > On 09/06/2012 10:29 PM, María Leandro wrote: > > > > (A related issue is that it's all too common for the > teams > > > > to write their own Wiki pages in English, even if > there're > > > > only > > > > > > a > > > > > > > few fluent English-speakers, if any, among the intended > > > > audience. Indeed, I've heard one of them say, “aren't > > > > these wiki pages for DFI only, anyway?”) > > > > > > > > It will be a challenge to organize all languages, probably if we > could > > > > add them differently. I'm not against to have a wiki per each > language, > > > > however, I'm worried that we will end up with 100 new wiki pages and > > > > nobody to maintain them (as I said... I'm 100% pro-multilingual) but > > > > I'm also aware that not everyone wil know how to look for it even if > > > > this seems really obvious for us. > > > > > > > > To note is that it was already suggested [1] on the > > > > > > planning-ru@ > > > > > > > mailing list to establish an entirely separate site for > the > > > > Russian-speaking SFD community. Indeed, at this moment > we > > > > cannot even refer to http://sf-day.org/ as the primary > > > > > > source of > > > > > > > information regarding the event, as most of its contents > is > > > > > > only > > > > > > > available in English! And as for Russia, it's rather > > > > > > uncommon > > > > > > > for a person here to know English well, if at all. > > > > > > > > If there is a strategy to translate or the admin can add a > > > > translation-plugin I would be happy to make a spanish translation, > > > > however, even if there are a lot of us who can do the work, we still > > > > need the admin of the website to provide us the tool. > > > > > > The wiki has already a few sections translated. Templates in specific > > > languages (and text boxes - check the bottom of > > > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/ ) have been created for teams > > > who want to use them. moinmoin is language aware on all its key pages. > > > Do check the wiki frontpage : en Español - em Português - en français - > > > हिंदी में - తెలుగు - 繁體中文 - 한국어 . That's 7 languages > > > StartGuide: en Español - en français . That 2 languages. > > > > Wiki has no issue at all. > > > > > I really don't think technology is at stake here. It's more a matter of > > > someone (well more than one someone obviously) putting in the efforts. > A > > > wiki is difficult to translate as content changes often. Still all the > > > team pages for Spanish & Portuguese speaking countries are in Spanish > > > (most of), I'd say the same for Turkish pages even if they do not have > > > any template made yet (just saying to the Russian crowd.. "hey just do > > > it! Others have been doing it for a few years now" ;-) ). > > > > If there is already a on-work progress on Spanish I would be happy to > push > > it and finish it. However, I need to know what do you have, where do you > > have it and how do you want me to send you the translations. For > > non-English speakers it's important not to only have the wiki translated, > > but also the main web... this is the front end for everything and should > be > > a priority over the rest. > > Check the localization mailing list at > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/localization and ask there for > credentials to the website backoffice, that will let you translate the main > website's content. > > From what I see, there's already some content translated to Spanish, but in > there you can choose whatever you want to translate first, so you can > decide > wether to translate all or not, and in which order. When I started the > Portuguese translation I decided to start first with all the content that > appeared on the main page. > > -- > Marcos Marado > -- tatica Maria Gracia Leandro Blog: http://tatica.org Portfolio: http://tap.tatica.org LinuxUser= 440285 GPG Public Key: E1CDCC56

Sept. 9, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] the wiki, the site, and going i11l

by Marcos Marado

Hi there, On Friday 07 September 2012 14:29:54 María Leandro wrote: > Hello. > > 2012/9/6 Frederic Muller - DFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > > > On 09/06/2012 10:29 PM, María Leandro wrote: > > > (A related issue is that it's all too common for the teams > > > to write their own Wiki pages in English, even if there're > > > only > > > > a > > > > > few fluent English-speakers, if any, among the intended > > > audience. Indeed, I've heard one of them say, “aren't > > > these wiki pages for DFI only, anyway?”) > > > > > > It will be a challenge to organize all languages, probably if we could > > > add them differently. I'm not against to have a wiki per each language, > > > however, I'm worried that we will end up with 100 new wiki pages and > > > nobody to maintain them (as I said... I'm 100% pro-multilingual) but > > > I'm also aware that not everyone wil know how to look for it even if > > > this seems really obvious for us. > > > > > > To note is that it was already suggested [1] on the > > > > planning-ru@ > > > > > mailing list to establish an entirely separate site for the > > > Russian-speaking SFD community. Indeed, at this moment we > > > cannot even refer to http://sf-day.org/ as the primary > > > > source of > > > > > information regarding the event, as most of its contents is > > > > only > > > > > available in English! And as for Russia, it's rather > > > > uncommon > > > > > for a person here to know English well, if at all. > > > > > > If there is a strategy to translate or the admin can add a > > > translation-plugin I would be happy to make a spanish translation, > > > however, even if there are a lot of us who can do the work, we still > > > need the admin of the website to provide us the tool. > > > > The wiki has already a few sections translated. Templates in specific > > languages (and text boxes - check the bottom of > > http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/ ) have been created for teams > > who want to use them. moinmoin is language aware on all its key pages. > > Do check the wiki frontpage : en Español - em Português - en français - > > हिंदी में - తెలుగు - 繁體中文 - 한국어 . That's 7 languages > > StartGuide: en Español - en français . That 2 languages. > > Wiki has no issue at all. > > > I really don't think technology is at stake here. It's more a matter of > > someone (well more than one someone obviously) putting in the efforts. A > > wiki is difficult to translate as content changes often. Still all the > > team pages for Spanish & Portuguese speaking countries are in Spanish > > (most of), I'd say the same for Turkish pages even if they do not have > > any template made yet (just saying to the Russian crowd.. "hey just do > > it! Others have been doing it for a few years now" ;-) ). > > If there is already a on-work progress on Spanish I would be happy to push > it and finish it. However, I need to know what do you have, where do you > have it and how do you want me to send you the translations. For > non-English speakers it's important not to only have the wiki translated, > but also the main web... this is the front end for everything and should be > a priority over the rest. Check the localization mailing list at http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/localization and ask there for credentials to the website backoffice, that will let you translate the main website's content. From what I see, there's already some content translated to Spanish, but in there you can choose whatever you want to translate first, so you can decide wether to translate all or not, and in which order. When I started the Portuguese translation I decided to start first with all the content that appeared on the main page. -- Marcos Marado

Sept. 9, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD Tunisia 2012

by médard Agbayazon

I witch all the best for you. Hope Benin will join the community by organizing his first sdf next year. Good luck to all. AGBAYAZON Cossi Médard www.progress-firm.com Tel (Bureau) : (00229) 23 14 15 97 Mobile: 97-38-31-74 / 95 01 88 62 BP: 22 Porto-Novo BENIN Aujourd'hui plus que jamais, travaillons sur les clefs qui suscitent la confiance et l'adhésion, la motivation individuelle et l'enthousiasme collectif. ________________________________ De : Habib M. KAMMOUN <habib.kammoun(a)ieee.org> À : Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss(a)sf-day.org> Envoyé le : Dimanche 9 septembre 2012 10h02 Objet : [SFD-discuss] SFD Tunisia 2012 Dear, It's a great pleasure to invite you to the SFD 2012 in Tunisia - North Africa :) http://softwarefreedomday.tn/ I wish you fantastic celebration next Saturday! Best Regards, Habib. ------------------------------------------ Mohamed Habib KAMMOUN IEEE, GTUG Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Gafsa, Faculty of Science, Tunisia. PhD Student, REGIM: REsearch Group on Intelligent Machines, University of Sfax, National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS), Tunisia. URL: http://kammoun.regim.org/ Tel.: (+216) 98 414 608 - Fax: (+216) 74 408 894 Address: Av. Farhat Hached, 13 Rue BellaRigia - 3000 Sfax - Tunisia IEEE ENIS Student Branch: http://www.ieee-enis.org/ IEEE GOLD Tunisia: http://sites.ieee.org/tunisia-gold/ IEEE Sfax Tunisia: http://ewh.ieee.org/r8/tunisia/sfax/ Sfax GTUG: http://sites.google.com/site/sfaxgtug/ ------------------------------------------ REGIM Lab., leading innovative research. IEEE Fosters Technological Innovation and Excellence for the Benefit of Humanity. Google: Don't be evil. ------------------------------------------ If you received this communication by mistake, please don't forward it to anyone else (it may contain confidential or privileged information), please erase all copies of it, including all attachments, and please let the sender know it went to the wrong person. Thanks. _______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

Sept. 9, 2012

SFD Tunisia 2012

by Habib M. KAMMOUN

Dear, It's a great pleasure to invite you to the SFD 2012 in Tunisia - North Africa :) http://softwarefreedomday.tn/ I wish you fantastic celebration next Saturday! Best Regards, Habib. ------------------------------------------ Mohamed Habib KAMMOUN IEEE, GTUG Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Gafsa, Faculty of Science, Tunisia. PhD Student, REGIM: REsearch Group on Intelligent Machines, University of Sfax, National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS), Tunisia. URL: http://kammoun.regim.org/ Tel.: (+216) 98 414 608 - Fax: (+216) 74 408 894 Address: Av. Farhat Hached, 13 Rue BellaRigia - 3000 Sfax - Tunisia IEEE ENIS Student Branch: http://www.ieee-enis.org/ IEEE GOLD Tunisia: http://sites.ieee.org/tunisia-gold/ IEEE Sfax Tunisia: http://ewh.ieee.org/r8/tunisia/sfax/ Sfax GTUG: http://sites.google.com/site/sfaxgtug/ <http://ewh.ieee.org/r8/tunisia/gold/> ------------------------------------------ REGIM Lab., leading innovative research. IEEE Fosters Technological Innovation and Excellence for the Benefit of Humanity. Google: Don't be evil. ------------------------------------------ If you received this communication by mistake, please don't forward it to anyone else (it may contain confidential or privileged information), please erase all copies of it, including all attachments, and please let the sender know it went to the wrong person. Thanks.

Sept. 9, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] TTCS OSSWIN DVD, a collection of FOSS for Windows available for download

by Seun Ojedeji

Thanks for the share. Cheers! OJ sent from google nexus On Sep 8, 2012 3:15 PM, "Dev Anand Teelucksingh" <devtee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > Just to let you know the TTCS OSSWIN DVD v0.8.6 a DVD of Free and Open > Source Software (FOSS) for Windows put together by the Trinidad and > Tobago Computer Society is available as a free download at > http://www.ttcsweb.org/osswin-dvd/ > > This compilation of nearly 100 FOSS for Windows (XP and higher) has > detailed information about each program: what the program does, its > key features, useful related websites, view a screenshot, find links > to the program's website and to download/install the program from the > TTCS OSSWIN DVD from the web browser. > > v0.8.6 features the most updated software versions as of September 8 > 2012 in time for Software Freedom Day 2012, including LibreOffice > 3.6.1 and Mozilla Firefox 15.0.1 > > A full listing of the software included on the DVD and download link > can be found at http://www.ttcsweb.org/osswin-dvd/ > > > Kind Regards, > > Dev Anand Teelucksingh > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

Sept. 8, 2012

TTCS OSSWIN DVD, a collection of FOSS for Windows available for download

by Dev Anand Teelucksingh

Dear All, Just to let you know the TTCS OSSWIN DVD v0.8.6 a DVD of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Windows put together by the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society is available as a free download at http://www.ttcsweb.org/osswin-dvd/ This compilation of nearly 100 FOSS for Windows (XP and higher) has detailed information about each program: what the program does, its key features, useful related websites, view a screenshot, find links to the program's website and to download/install the program from the TTCS OSSWIN DVD from the web browser. v0.8.6 features the most updated software versions as of September 8 2012 in time for Software Freedom Day 2012, including LibreOffice 3.6.1 and Mozilla Firefox 15.0.1 A full listing of the software included on the DVD and download link can be found at http://www.ttcsweb.org/osswin-dvd/ Kind Regards, Dev Anand Teelucksingh

Sept. 8, 2012

SFD 2012 in Quebec province, Canada

by Fabian Rodriguez

Hi all Sorry if this is last minute... I had my share of health situations and other personal events (like our 4th birth in the family 3 weeks ago) :) I now have confirmation we have a space for SFD 2012 in Montreal, there will also be a small gathering in Quebec city: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/Canada/Montreal http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/Canada/Quebec If you are in the area or nearby, or know someone that will be on Sept. 15, please pass this information. I also wrote a formal invitation in French, feel free to use it/modify it or even translate it to other languages: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/Canada/Montreal/Invitation Cheers, Fabian Rodriguez http://fsf.magicfab.ca

Sept. 8, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] the wiki, the site, and going i11l

by María Leandro

because of work... since 6 months ago i have it on english :( (Blame Darktable guys :P ) I'll be waiting for the resumé. Maybe through the fedora team I could find people to help me with translations in several languages. Have a nice weekend! 2012/9/8 Frederic Muller - DFI <fred(a)softwarefreedomday.org> > > On 09/07/2012 09:29 PM, María Leandro wrote: > > If there is already a on-work progress on Spanish I would be happy to > > push it and finish it. However, I need to know what do you have, where > > do you have it and how do you want me to send you the translations. For > > non-English speakers it's important not to only have the wiki > > translated, but also the main web... this is the front end for > > everything and should be a priority over the rest. > > > > [...] > > > > > > I consider that translating everything would be a pain too, wiki must be > > a matter of each country/language. However, main website has almost > > always the same content and it's important for those who don't even know > > what the event is to have a friendly front-page multilingual support. > > > > If we try to make it all, we won't accomplish anything, however, there > > are some few spots that can make a difference. > > > > Just a couple of thoughts. > > Hi! > > This is very kind of you and I'll definitely take up the offer. Note > that if your browser is configured to use Spanish as its first language > you will get both the web and wiki site in Spanish as both have had > parts translated. Of course not everything is translated on the www site > but all the menus and the main rotating topics are. Still news and blog > aren't and detailed articles neither. I let you be the judge of what's > important considering we already have quite some stuff. I will make an > inventory in the coming days to give you a proper status report though. > > I'm surprised you haven't noticed that the main site had some Spanish in > it, is your browser choosing Spanish as its default content language? > > Thank you. > > Fred > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > -- tatica Maria Gracia Leandro Blog: http://tatica.org Portfolio: http://tap.tatica.org LinuxUser= 440285 GPG Public Key: E1CDCC56

Sept. 8, 2012

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD Event Date

by Frederic Muller - DFI

Hi again, Seun Ojedeji is totally right. As I already wrote to the personal email you sent me we understand that in some places of the world (or even for people who found out about SFD a bit late) celebrating SFD on the "official" date can be difficult. As long as you make it clear on your event materials, website and SFD wiki that you will be celebrating on a different date, it is fine with us. Fred On 09/08/2012 01:28 PM, Haris Praba Aditya wrote: > Hi, > > I'm Haris from Semarang, Indonesia. I want to ask about SFD Event Date. > It's already determined by 15 September 2012. My question is, can we > held event not at that time? We plan to held SFD event on 7 October > 2012. Is that okay? > > Thanks > Haris. > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

Sept. 8, 2012