The strength of an Open Source FOSS project comes from its community. Google has realized that and supports the community with its Summer of Code programme. I had the chance to meet up at an earlybird breakfast in Brussels with Leslie Hawthorn and some folks from Google like Peter Anvin to discuss some ideas of [...]
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LXDE Talk at FOSDEM 2009
We had a fantastic time at FOSDEM 2009 in Brussels. After the Chaos Communication Congress a few weeks ago, we have again seen many people already using LXDE. Christoph Wickert (Fedora) and I had a lightning talk where we gave an overview of LXDE and the expanding community in front of about 500 people. Special [...]
LXDE featured in prestigious magazine 新新聞 The Journalist
Shen Wanyu from the prestigious magazine ¨新新聞 The Journalist¨ in Taiwan interviewed us some time ago. Result was a six page article ( PDF-Download, 5,9 MB ) about business opportunities for companies with free and open source software.
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More information on the amazing global media coverage of LXDE in the Media Section of [...]
Translate *.po files with Poedit
Many of you wanted to help translating LXDE but only a few know how to do this, until now. Here is a description on how to help translating the components of LXDE. You can also view this article in the Wiki:
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/How_to_translate_LXDE_components (generally)
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Translate_*.po_files_with_Poedit (Poedit specific)
LXDE at the 25C3 Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin
Members of the LXDE community are currently meeting at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. The 25C3 is one of the biggest hacker and developer events in the world with more than 3000 hackers gathering for 4 days just after Christmas.
Mario Behling, Maces, alx
It is exciting to be here and see that many people already [...]
Launchpad or Transifex? What is the best system for LXDE?
With the increase of LXDE components and the ongoing development of LXDE the need for a better translation system has increased. We discussed different option in this forum here: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=35
We have set up a vote for you to cast which system and solution you prefer. Please vote in this forum: http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=163
There are three options:
1. Launchpad
2. [...]
LXDE Translation Project
We are starting the LXDE translation project. Please join the LXDE translation team now! Help translating LXDE into different languages. Join us improving the documentation and resources around LXDE.
It is the aim of the LXDE team and community to give access to information to people with less powerful hardware. Many did not have the chance [...]
Recent Status of LXDE
Actually, the LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) project had rested for some time. Though we’re getting more and more people to join us since Linux World Expo 2008, LXDE have no much improvements since July this year. It’s happened due to our main developers didn’t have time to write new code, PCMan took time to [...]
Community First!
The current release of MySQL shows the problems free and open source software projects face that put business first and community second. Michael “Monty” Widenius critizes in his Blog the current developement model of MySQL and recommends not to use the current release 5.1 of the database system.
The reason I am asking you to be [...]
LXDE Meeting in Shenzhen – Video
There is now a video online of the gathering with the Shenzhen Linux User Group and our discussion about Open Source and LXDE provided from Zhang Le. Thanks a lot!
Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9072456269136280272
Avi-Link: http://www.gentoo-cn.org/~zhangle/szlug/mario_lxde_20081122.avi
