If you still remember my pet project BillReminder and want to learn what’s going on with it, go check the project’s latest post! [caption id=“attachment_58” align=“alignnone” width=“385” caption=“BillReminder with charting support”][/caption] A huge thanks to nosklo, Patryk, and Toms for their help, and if you’re looking for a young python project to help out, please consider looking at BillReminder!

Interesting: I’ve heard that when the Red Hat developers present new open-source packages to their local Linux User-Group, before the meeting is over one of the Foresight people will have downloaded the source, created a Foresight package, uploaded it to the repository for folks to get, and it will be available for anyone to use. It’s explicitly designed as a package management system with very little overhead to creating new packages.

Just to follow up on one of my earlier messages to Twitter/Identi.ca today, here’s a little trivia for you: "What do Moblin, Xfce, Fedora plus a few other projects have in common? They all use Transifex for their translations!" There’s quite a few other projects out there already toying with Transifex to see if it fits their needs too, which goes to show that the word is getting out about the benefits of using it as a platform for managing translations.

I was extremely thrilled to learn that my good friend Pete Savagedecided to publish his novel “Emblem Divide" online! I had the honor of getting a copy of his work last month and have enjoyed reading it a lot! The novel will be available completely free of charge, no strings attached! To top it off, being the nice guy that he is, he’s also setting up a donation system to take advantage of the traffic that his web site will most like generate so that you can support a charity of your choice!

For those of you out there who are Foresight Linux users wondering when the next major software update will hit the stable branch, your wait is almost over! We’ve been feverishly making all the latest bits to play nice with each other so that we can also release newer ISO images of what will be Foresight 2.1.2. Some of the issues we’re facing right now are: Issues with latest *goocanvas/pycairo mess [0][1][2]; Epiphany issues with latest WebKit in x86_64; Exotic side effects of kernel changes that make audio CDs not easilly playable (not a Foresight exclusive issue); Mono is somehow partly busted (part of gnome bindings) in x86_64 hits latest banshee; Getting Anaconda to play nicely with newer kernel drivers for some motherboards; Some of the cool things we’re cooking in the development branch are: latest KDE, GNOME, Chromium/Firefox/Opera web browser, gst streamer bits, latest kernel, Banshee 1.

Reading today’s post by Miguel about the 10 years anniversary of Ximian’s incorporation brought back memories of a time when I wasn’t as involved with open source… a time when I hated my job and would do anything to score a job with a Linux company. I had decided to attend a Microsoft boot camp in Massachusetts and since I was going to be around Boston, for some reason I decided to send Miguel an email asking him if he would mind meeting with me and maybe grabbing a cup of coffee.

Na noite de outubro 16 de 2009 aconteceu a primeira reunião da equipe de traduções do GNOME Brasil já sobre a nova coordenação do Rodrigo Flores. Infelizmente perdi o início da reunião mas o Rodrigo fez um excelente trabalho em resumir os pontos discutidos e enviou para todos da lista de discussão. O que segue abaixo é o conteúdo deste e-mail, formatado por mim para (espero) melhor destacar os assuntos discutidos: