Woke up this morning to find the following email in my inbox: Renew membership of Og Maciel in Ubuntu Members It’s been a while since I last thought about this membership so this email had me thinking for a bit. Ubuntu is where everything started for me, and even though I have not seen eye to eye with Canonical, I harbor no ill feelings toward the distribution itself. So for the last 5 years I’ve been associated with the Ubuntu ecosystems and dedicated a large chunk of my time trying to get the distro properly translated into Brazilian Portuguese and doing a lot of advocating along the way.

In order to promote the GNOME 3.0 launch and spread the idea amongst the GNOME community members, I’m sharing the following message! Please translate it and share it with your friends and help us organize the biggest GNOME Launch ever! Dear GNOME friends, The GNOME.Asia committee is working on making a big launch party (which includes a 5 days hackfest) to celebrate, promote and work on the GNOME 3.0 release as part of our effort to promote GNOME in Asia.

I’m also coming to the Boston Summit for the first time! I’m looking forward to hanging out with my fellow Board members, meeting some of them for the very first time. I’m also looking forward to attending the Snowy Hackfest and other sessions related to GNOME 3.0! Think you can join us? Take a look at the GNOME Foundation blog for more.

A newer version of the Transifex Appliance has been released with all the latest, juicy bits! In fact, this release is the mother of all releases with so many new features and goodies that it would take me a while to jot them down here! A few impressive nuggets are: Brand New Translation Storage Engine QT (TS) translation file format support Source language file tracking over HTTP Translation file metadata auto-updating Clone language Non-English Source Languages Lotte: Multiple Source Languages, Suggestions, Keyboard Shortcuts, Translation Memory Application Programmable Interface Can you believe that Transifex has reached the 1.

Thanks to comments by booxter and Patrick Niedzielski, I have added support for 2 more languages to Pylyglot: Belarusian and Esperanto! So far I had been adding languages according to their translation percentage, starting from the top and slowly moving down the list, but it probably makes sense to add some of the languages that need a bit of help catching up with the other teams and provide them with a means to check their standardization.

What a difference a day makes! Thanks to some feedback I got both here and in private, and thanks to a contributor with some extra free cycles at hand, Pylyglot got another face lift today. So what’s new? There are now 245 total packages and 3,165,335 translations from yesterday’s 61 packages and 954,884 translations! You can also now link to a query using the resulting url from your searches using the format language=FOO&query=BAR, where FOO is the language’s ISO code and BAR is the term you’re searching.

Managed to update Pylyglot, my Django-based translations tool to include 22 new languages and the very latest GNOME 3.0 packages. Hope you guys find it useful! Languages: 52 Packages: 61 Translations: 954,884