I wanted to write about the concept of selling open source ideas and what are some of the required criteria for being successful in doing it for quite some time, and Stormy's comment on my last post sort of pushed me to it. I use the word “sell” here not strictly in the sense of a financial transaction but also in the sense of getting your open source product to be adopted and have a better chance at standing out from the huge pool of available open source software.

Proud to have been a part of delivering the following upstream projects 100% translated to Brazilian Portuguese: GNOME 2.26 UI: 100% translated. Xfce 4.6 UI: 100% translated Openbox: 100% translated I also helped the GNOME Italian team with their commits. Now, onto LXDE and some modules for Fedora.

… for everytime a heard a pediatrician say: It is probably some virus; There is something going around; I’ll prescribe some amoxicillin…; It will go away in 6 to 8 weeks; I’ll ask my colleagues; We’ve been seeing that in the office a lot… it is probably some type of infection or virus; I’d be rich! Growing up in Brazil, there was never a time that my parents took me to a doctor that we didn’t come home knowing precisely what was affliciting me… and nothing that wasn’t cured by some type of shot and a day of rest.

Today we had snow in Chapel Hill for the first time since I moved from Northern New Jersey. I not a big fan of the white stuff since it used to mean cleaning up the car, drive to the slush, and get all wet. But my girls loved it, specially Yv who seized the opportunity to make snow angels. It was also Kate's first snow and eventhough she's been coffing lately, we decided to bring her outside (wearing a heavy coat) to play for a while.

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Got back home tonight to find our dining table covered by books that Yv got at the library today. This is something that happens quite often and it never stops amazing me just how much she loves to read! So even though it was almost 21:00 and I had just walked in from work, we set by the table and started reading some of her books. [gallery link=“file”] Elephant and Piggie books must be some of the most amazingly funny books to read to your kids!

What a great month for open source translators this has been! The latest news is the marriage of GNOME’s Damn Lies with Vertimus. You can think of it as statistics and work flow in one interface! From the announcement email: You like Damned Lies and Vertimus, we too, so we have merged both! The new Damned Lies offers a new reviewing workflow. If you’re a translator, you can join one or many teams and reserve a module for translation.

Danilo Å egan, lead developer for the Rosetta translation tool sent an email to the Ubuntu translators list yesterday with some great news related to the policy of how upstream translations are managed: Launchpad Translations has changed the translation precedence policy with the December release: now upstream (“packaged”) translations will be given more priority in specific cases. Yet, Launchpad Translations keeps the ability to override any specific upstream translation if so is desired.

Last week I received an invitation to join the LXDE project, “an extremely faster, performing and energy saving desktop environment maintained by an international community of developers”, to collaborate and help organize their translation effort. As I have maintained the Brazilian Portuguese translation for Openbox, one of the components that make up LXDE, and am very much involved with the translation of GNOME, KDE, XFCE, and other modules, I felt very compelled to accept the invitation.

I’ve re-designed the dialog for adding or editing a bill for my pet project BillReminder and am now in need of help to improve the user interface a bit more before releasing another version. I figured someone out there may either have the answer or have more free time at their disposal than me. :) Here’s what the dialog looks like right now: The issue is related to the option of adding recurring bills, which a user can do by changing the Repeat field to something other than Once (i.