On Monday 15 August 2011 13:04:17 Frederic Muller - SFI wrote:

On 08/13/2011 02:09 AM, Frederic Muller - SFI wrote:

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We'll let the weekend pass, see what other languages we get done and then official announce the counter, with a nicely design page to integrate in the www website.

Quite good response so far and some unfinished artworks: we have French and Russian countdown counters fully operational, and Portuguese, German with in fact only 2 SVG files missing a translation (and then generating the pngs - but we have a script for that now). Cambodian and Chinese versions on the way and hopefully more.

Thanks to linuxmaster, nullix and all the people helping out to make SFD 2011 a great celebration!

Hi there, Unfortunately our graphics guy went into vacations and I don't have the skills to do the Portuguese translations. Maybe you can tell me the texts you want to see translated, I would say the translation here, and somebody could do the images with the translated text? Best regards, -- Marcos Marado ANSOL -- http://ansol.org

Hi and thanks! Well goodies are on the way. I was informed that some teams are starting to receive their packs so it shouldn't be too far away for you neither. It's nice to see that you have a TV channel as a sponsor: would you mind sharing how you managed to achieve this with other teams? I'm sure a lot of us could learn from you on this one! Regarding the countdown I have a few comments: Mexico is on UTC-5 so you should replace the current code by this one: <a href="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/"><img src="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/countdown/banner1-UTC-5-en.png" border="0" width="190" height="200" alt="Celebrate SFD with us on September 17!"></a> (see how the image link points to banner1-**UTC-5**-en.png now, this way the banner will change at midnight in your timezone). I noticed you are resizing the banner so in your case it should be: <a href="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/"><img src="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/countdown/banner1-UTC-5-en.png" border="0" width="100" height="110" alt="Celebrate SFD with us on September 17!"></a> And last, if you want to have a Spanish version you can translate the attached 3 SVG files into Spanish and I'll create the png for you (and give you an updated link). You will need Inkscape to do that. Thank you and happy preparations! Fred On 08/16/2011 01:11 AM, jacobnix wrote:

Hi Fred,

Ok, I used html code in our website and it looks fine, Thanks

Ok we will celebrating and promoting Software Freedom Day in Guanajuato Mexico 2011

I'm waiting the goddies to share in our meeting.

Website: http://sfdgto.wordpress.com/

Wiki Software Freedom Day Registered team http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/Mexico/Guanajuato/Comunidad-de-Softw...

We have some sponsors like TV Channel 22 Colima Mexico and Software Guru Mexico , they are promoting software freedom day 2011 and software freedom day guanajuato 2011.

http://www.sg.com.mx/component/option,com_events/task,view_detail/agid,529/y...

Thanks

- - Jacob http://www.langebio.cinvestav.mx/bioinformatica/jacob/

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Frederic Muller - SFI <fred@softwarefreedomday.org <mailto:fred@softwarefreedomday.org>> wrote:

Dear all,

We've finally put up a countdown banner (190x200) to SFD. Currently only in English but we have the abilities to translate it as well.

Since the event is global we have made one banner per existing time zone on planet Earth (we're thinking bigger for next year and maybe Mars and Neptune support...).

So for example if you're using the current English banner and are located in the UK, you'll be at UTC+1 . The banner direct link for you will therefore be: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/countdown/banner1-UTC+1-en.png

and the code to include in your site: <a href="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/"><img src="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/countdown/banner1-UTC+1-en.png" border="0" width="190" height="200" alt="Celebrate SFD with us on September 17!"></a>

List of supported timezones is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zones_by_UTC_offset

Full documentation and source files can be found here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown

Should people want to help localize there are already Portuguese and German on the way, you can probably help finish those 2.

Any question please let us know.

We'll let the weekend pass, see what other languages we get done and then official announce the counter, with a nicely design page to integrate in the www website.

Should you want to use a totally different design, we'll need to modify the script as there is a language symmetry in the current script which will need to be changed.

Any question, please ask!

Thanks and happy SFD preparations!

Fred

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On 08/16/2011 11:50 PM, Frederic Muller - SFI wrote:

Hi again!

So we now have 6 languages up and running: English (en) Russian (ru) French (fr) Khmer (kh) German (de) Portuguese (pt)

and 2 more languages added: Chinese simplified (zh_CN) Chinese traditional (zh_TW) Thanks for Shenzhen LUG and Pockey for helping out on those! Fred (yeah yeah, I really need to make that nice page to explain it all...)

On 08/17/2011 10:07 PM, A. Mani wrote:

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Frederic Muller - SFI <fred@softwarefreedomday.org> wrote:

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Dear all,

We've finally put up a countdown banner (190x200) to SFD. Currently only in English but we have the abilities to translate it as well.

The countdown is so imprecise.

In what way is it imprecise? We offer support for about 40 time zones. Can you be more specific? Based on the earlier countdown, What earlier countdown we are

planning for 15th Sept (IST) :)

Too bad: we can't support different dates for everyone. The countdown works only for the official date and adjust to your timezone on that date (assuming you pick the right UTC zone).

Friday the 16th would be better.

Our team (ILUG-CalInfo) plans to hold an advanced seminar at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata on the day.

You should either use the Ubuntu code which is referenced in the wiki (simpler) or ours (but you don't need 40 timezones) and adapt it to your specific date. All the images are available for download and you will only need to host the python script + about 32 image files. Nothing impossible really ;-)

The goal is also to improve the user base among technical people. Great aim, those can be a difficult audience as being technical they might think what they already know is better than what they don't know. Congratulations!

Fred

Thanks and Best

A. Mani