David Planella

Ca Revolta

Festa d’instal·lació de l'Ubuntu Maverick a Ca Revolta (València)

Aquest dissabte es durà a terme una festa d'instal·lació del sistema operatiu Ubuntu 10.10 [http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop] en valencià al mític espai Ca Revolta [http://www.carevolta.org], gràcies a l'esforç organitzatiu del company de Softcatalà [http://www.softcatala.org/] i Softvalencià

Translations

Announcing the Natty Narwhal UDS Translations Sessions

It's less than a week before the Ubuntu Developer Summit [http://uds.ubuntu.com/] kicks off in Orlando, Florida [http://uds.ubuntu.com/travel/], from the 25th-29th Oct, and everyone is getting ready to plan all the sessions and put all of the pieces in place for what

Maverick

Translators: you are awesome and you should be proud of it

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/design-dog/1480411251] Translations Awesomeness As you all know the Meerkat is out [https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2010-October/000139.html]. After the release frenzy, I'd like to take a step back and use the opportunity to thank the people from the part

Translations

Ubuntu 11.04 Translations plans

In the Community team at Canonical we are already turning the engines to start laying out the plans for the 11.04 roadmap for translations. For this, we really value your input and would very much like to take your ideas and feedback into account. Remember that this is about

Jams

Ramping up for the Ubuntu Global Jam

[http://loco.ubuntu.com/] Wow, our ever amazing community has done it again. Since last time I looked at the LoCo directory [http://loco.ubuntu.com], the number of teams participating in the Ubuntu Global Jam [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam] has nearly doubled. There is still time to organise

Jams

Join the fun at the Ubuntu Global Jam

[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/global/195/detail/] Getting ready for the Jam It's less than two weeks before our ever amazing community joins around the globe to have a good time while improving the incoming Ubuntu release [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickReleaseSchedule], 10.10, codenamed the Maverick

Hebrew

The Hebrew translation team needs your help

After running the Ubuntu Translation Teams Healthcheck [https://davidplanella.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/ubuntu-translation-teams-healthcheck/] I took it to heart to help translation teams in the areas they asked for assistance in the survey. One of the teams that had a need in a particular area was the Ubuntu Hebrew

Maverick

Ubuntu Maverick open for translation

I'm pleased to announce that Ubuntu Maverick is now open for translation: [https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick] Remember that according to the release schedule [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickReleaseSchedule] translatable messages might be subject to change until the User Interface Freeze [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserInterfaceFreeze] on

Survey

Ubuntu Translation Teams Healthcheck

Some weeks ago I ran the Ubuntu Translation teams healthcheck [https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-translation-teams-healthcheck] survey. The main goal was getting in touch with the teams to have some feedback on how they were doing, if they needed help in any particular area and make sure that

Translations

Translations Advocacy

[https://davidplanella.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/ubuntutranslationslogo-small.png] It might not come as a surprise to you that I start saying that translations are important. Why translations Translations are a key part of the Ubuntu community, with deep roots in our Ubuntu philosophy [http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/

Daily Builds

Daily build awesomeness

Today I'd like to let you know about a very cool Launchpad [http://www.launchpad.net/] feature: Daily Builds. In a nutshell: daily builds get Launchpad to work for developers and produce automatically or semi-automatically built packages of the latest code, ready for everyone to test and taste.

Softcatalà

Marató pencaire de Softcatalà demà al Citilab

Bé, segurament seré l'últim de fer-ne ressò, però aprofitant que durant la setmana seré per terres catalanes, jo també participaré demà a la marató [http://gent.softcatala.org/jmas/bloc/pivot/entry.php?id=448] pencaire [http://www.somgnu.cat/2010/06/15/marato-pencaire-de-softcatala-aquest-dissabte/] de Softcatalà [http://www.

LoCo

Help translating the LoCo Teams Best Practices and Guidelines

Hi all, It's translations announcements day today! ;) We've got some more content that would be very interesting for LoCos to have translated. Check this out: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/LoCoTeamsBestPracticesandGuidelines The Ubuntu LoCo Council [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil] developed a series of best practices

LoCo

The Ubuntu LoCo Directory wants to speak your language

[http://loco.ubuntu.com] Hi all, The Loco Directory [http://loco.ubuntu.com/] hackers have asked for some more help in getting the directory translated and thus more usable for your Ubuntu LoCo. You can contribute to it the usual way by going to: https://translations.launchpad.net/loco-directory And

10.04

Ubuntu Lucid release party in Valencia

[http://picasaweb.google.com/crazyserver/UbuntairesFestaLucida?authkey=Gv1sRgCPiI-46wxKzeqAE] Last weekend the Catalan LoCo team [http://www.ubuntu.cat/] reunited again to celebrate yet another unforgettable Ubuntu release party in València [http://tinyurl.com/3624hx8], at the emblematic Octubre [http://www.octubre.cat/] Culture Centre in the heart of the city.

Translations

Maverick UDS Translations Sessions

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/anotherpintplease/3748161364/] Engines are warming up for the next Ubuntu Developer Summit [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS] next week in Brussels, and on the Community track we've got a rich set of sessions to discuss a lot of topics around Translations. These will

LoCo

Translate the main LoCo Council page

I've been working with Laura Czajkowski [http://www.lczajkowski.com/] to set up the main LoCo Council page for translations on the wiki, and I'm pleased to announce that you can start translating it to your own language, so that it is also useful for everyone

GSoC

Launchpad Translations projects in Google Summer of Code 2010

As most of you know, we've got an amazing translations community in Ubuntu [https://translations.launchpad.net/+groups/ubuntu-translators]. Every day, hundreds of translators use Launchpad Translations [https://translations.launchpad.net/] as a tool to make our OS of choice available in almost any language. As such, I&

Jams

Ubuntu Global Jam: time is ticking

[https://davidplanella.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ugj09_banner_195x500_yellow_cat.png] Ok, the countdown has started for the Ubuntu Global Jam [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam]. It's less than 10 days until Ubuntu teams around the globe show off some community power and join the fest

Nightmonkey

Translating software descriptions with Nightmonkey

I've been meaning to talk about this cool project for some days. Enter Nightmonkey [http://nightmonkey.ubuntu.hu/]: [caption id="attachment_303" align="alignnone" width="480"] [http://nightmonkey.ubuntu.hu/] Nightmonkey 2.0[/caption] What's this? Nightmonkey [https://wiki.ubuntu.

Testing

Help localization testing with the ISO tracker

The Ubuntu Testing Team [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing] [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam] is currently testing Lucid Alpha 3 candidate images [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO]. This cycle we have a brand new set of localization test cases [http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/NonEnglishLanguage] for everyone to

Documentation

Upstream and Ubuntu Translations documentation

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/caranord/3220309738/] After having had the same questions from upstreams several times, last week I was finally carried away by a surge of JFDI energy to create a resource for them, of which here are the results: * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/Upstream This should

Fonts

Call for feedback on preferred desktop fonts

As you know, while trying to offer a better experience for users in all languages and trying to balance that with features, we are faced with the fact that the space on the Live CD is limited. Fonts in particular take a lot of space, and we'd like

Jams

Getting ready for more jamming awesome

The engines are already warming up for the Ubuntu Global Jam [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam] on the 26th to 28th of March weekend. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexm/3978175164/sizes/l/in/set-72157622384284789/] As our vibrant community grows, we're also expanding the types of jams, to

Translations

Lucid Translations now open

Just a quick note to announce that Lucid is now open for translation. You can now go to * http://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu and help making the Lynx speak your language.See the original announcement [https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2010-February/003240.html] for more details. If you need