http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings The weekend hacker's musings... Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:31:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For this year's GSOC, I will be mentoring Julen Ruiz Aizpuru, who will be working on Effective user experience for Pootle. I badly needed a break this week, and so three of us from college went for a trip to Mandarmani, a sea side resort around 200 km from Kolkata. It is still somewhat isolated compared to the other sea side resorts nearby, and the last 7 km of our trip consisted of driving over the beach, and getting stuck in ... http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2008/04/28/28th-april-2008/ The picture above (I took it during September 2006) looks very similar to a photo published in this month's Linux For You. A scan of the page is available in Ravishankar's blog. ...and it looks like this is not the first time Linux for You is doing this :-(. http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2008/04/13/13th-april-2008/ ....To use it, make sure you’re in a reasonably lit room. It won’t work in pitch black, but you don’t have to be sitting in a tanning bed either. Start Colors! and navigate to the second tab, Paint. Click on the leftmost icon, Palette, and enable both “Pressure Sensitive” checkboxes. Click on the Palette button again to close that window. Click on the rightmost button, the magnifying glass called Video Paint. Hold the charger ... http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2008/04/07/paint-with-color-based-object-tracking/ OLPC is looking for a UI developer for Sugar, the interface for the XO-1 laptop for children. Requirements include experience with C, Python, and GTK+. Knowledge of Gecko, X Window System, D-Bus, GStreamer, Cairo and Fedora Linux is preferred. For more details, and on information on how to apply, visit the OLPC careers web page. [Update]: It seems that the email address originally posted (job-sugar@laptop.org), does not work. The correct email address would be (jobs-sugar@laptop.org). Apologies for the inconvenience. http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2008/03/28/user-interface-developer-for-sugar-wanted/ I'm willing to mentor the following projects for Google Summer of Code 2008 for this year: General Improvements (feature additions) to Pootle While working with Pootle at OLPC, we have come across a number of feature requests, most (if not all) can be implemented within the GSoC timeframe. I have listed some of the high priority features here. The main requirements for this project is familiarity with Python and some basic ideas about localization. The mentoring organization for this is Translate Toolkit ... http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2008/03/25/projects-for-summer-of-code-2008/ OLPC Nepal is having a translation night out - read all about it here, and feel free to join the fun. Warm Holi/Doljatra greetings to everyone. http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2008/03/21/21st-march-2008/ Whenever we work on a PO file, we usually translate from English to the translate language. However, recently at OLPC, we had some Aymara translators who did not know English, but were quite comfortable with Spanish. We had been receiving such requests for supporting the display of an intermediate language in our translation system for quite some time now, and it was also a prominent feature request for Pootle, the web based translation software that we use. I was feeling ... http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2008/03/11/free-software-translations-for-people-who-do-not-know-english/ Just came across the excellent news from Jani Monoses that Sugar is finally in the Hardy universe. Though at the moment, apparently one needs to run Sugar in an Xephyr window (using sugar-emulator). Support for running Sugar as a standalone desktop environment (ie - you get the option of logging into sugar from GDM) would be really awesome. http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2008/03/03/sugar-in-hardy/ http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2008/03/03/pictures-from-our-college-carrom-room/ GnunifyTomorrow, I take an early morning (I hate those) flight to Mumbai, and from there, I plan on taking a bus to Pune, for Gnunify. I will be speaking on OLPC - a introductory talk, concentrating mostly on how to get started contributing to the project (as a developer/translator/etc). OLPC TranslationsSameer Verma recently announced on the OLPC localization list that he has uploaded a set of slides on how to use our translation infrastructure (based on Pootle). And soon after, ... http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2008/02/06/6th-february-2008/