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Colombian Team rocking at FLISOL 2007

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As you may have noticed, the Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre or Free/Open Source Software Latin-American Installfest is taking over the place this coming Saturday April 28th. Many people will be organizing and attending local events in Colombia.

I have been helping the Ubuntu Colombian LoCo Team becoming an official team (yes, from Montreal!) and I think it’s coming along nicely. There’s been very active discussions on the mailing list about the ethics vs. convenience of supporting and providing proprietary drivers support, different support issues, and of course… where to get Ubuntu labels and the obligatory voting to choose a logo!

Some Colombian Team members like Elkin Botero will be traveling quite a bit to talk about Ubuntu and spread some love, in fact the team will be present in 6 cities no less! Check the Colombian Team Flisol 2007 wiki page for all the details.

I wish all the participants across Latin America a good, friendly & productive day !

GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Planet

The Codebreakers transcript released – help wanted for subtitles

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Remember The Codebreakers: A BBC World Documentary on FOSS and Development ? Well, after many months and a few emails nicely asking for it, the Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme have sent me their original transcript for the documentary 40 minute version, licensed under a Creative Commons BY licence.

The main purpose for me was to produce subtitles in French, but there’s been interest in the Colibri list for Colombian FLOSS users to do it in spanish too, so I asked again and got the file today. It’s an easy but tedious and long job. We have to first produce an appropriate English subtitles file, then translate it – an dof course test it.

If you want to get the transcript and / or feel like helping producing an English subtitles file, please visit the subtitling project’s wiki page. Pass the word around!

Update: the links had moved, I just corrected them (as of July 12 2007)

GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Planet

Ubuntu BumpTop – You know you want it

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So I missed DemoCamp Montreal again, though JP had invited me… 🙁 I was busy spreading some Ubuntu love elsewhere (more on that later).

It seems he found BumpTop to be really nice. I remember seeing a demo about this some time ago, not sure where (online). They’re actually implementing it and hiring to ge it done. Come on! You know you want this running on Ubuntu 🙂 Can’t we sneak someone in there ?

GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Planet

Dell Linux survey down ? Try their blog.

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For the past few weeks I have been setting some facts straight about the numbers and rumors about Linux & Dell in different lists, it’s not secret there’s big interest in Ubuntu being certified and/or pre-installed on Dell hardware. Today to my surprise Dell is asking for more feedback via a new survey, but it seems down 🙁 I’d suggest anyone interested to read and comment their blog entry about it.

GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Planet

Interface for printer setup tools to query former LinuxPrinting.org database is available now

The recently created Linux Foundation site has announced that an interface for printer setup tools to query the database and to find driver packages is available now.

I believe I have a pretty good « new nice stuff » radar here but this one doesn’t seem to be under Ubuntu’s belt yet. Are there any distributions supporting this soon ? Ah, I sense we’re going to be very spoiled with new hardware support and features this year in Gnu/Linux land 🙂