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[Mar. 6th, 2008|12:24 am] |
I made my first ever CVS commit today! Woo - another free software milestone. I haven't worked out how to get it to store the server details so I can just type cvs commit rather than a long string of stuff.
I've also been given a mysterious bug on one of my ppa packages and remade them all with ~distro in for ease. The tuxpaint website is about have them all - the public downloading my stuff! Eek.
I'm currently on a massive learning curve - I'm improving my understanding almost *daily*. |
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| Tuxpaint 0.9.19! |
[Mar. 2nd, 2008|12:06 am] |
We have a new tuxpaint! 0.9.19 was released on the 1st March. It's a minor release (mainly bug fixing) but we have new languages (including some I extracted from launchpad!)
Currently Hardy has 0.9.17 as Debian didn't package 0.9.18. Debian are packaging 0.9.19 and hopefully it'll be backported. I will also try and make some unofficial debs and stick them in my personal package archive (ppa).
Press release here. |
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[Feb. 6th, 2008|06:36 pm] |
Ubuntu has 6 languages that upstream doesn't have for the tuxpaint-stamps package - Kurdish, Gujurati, Macedonian, Australian English, Slovak and Occitan. I've spent the afternoon comparing %s and extracting translation files..
I'm now going to look at the partial translations.. |
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[Feb. 6th, 2008|02:21 pm] |
Finished my basic translation stats so went off to get the curry - closed :(
I had`to get a kebab instead - rotters..
When you download the po file it tells you who has contributed. When you open the po file the headers say:
"Copyright (c) (c) 2006 Canonical Ltd, and Rosetta Contributors 2006
# This file is distributed under the same license as the tuxpaint package."
LAME! |
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| CURRY |
[Feb. 6th, 2008|12:30 pm] |
I've nearly finished taking data from launchpad on tuxpaint translations. One interesting thing is going to be the difference between the two as they forked their translations from ours sometime ago.
I've requested to download the PO file of Macedonian as we don't have that at all. You can't download them casually - you make a request whilst logged in and get an email in return giving you the link. It doesn't appear to have been signed off by a human though, which is a good thing.
The first thing I'm going to do is look at the ones where we don't have any localisation in that language. I'll then look at the diffs between ours and theirs where they seem to be significant.
To make myself do dull number importing I've promised myself a lunchtime curry when I've done the first batch. I'm up to 'P' and hopefully will make 'Z' by the time the lunchtime offer closes at the local curry house.. |
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| My PPA built! |
[Dec. 5th, 2007|01:13 pm] |
Woo!
Here
It's the tuxpaint 0.9.18 release of stamps packaged for Hardy.
I'll have a go at packaging other stuff later.. |
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| PPA |
[Dec. 5th, 2007|06:06 am] |
After a request I've made a tuxpaint package in my PPA. It's the first PPA package I've made and it took me a while fiddling around with signing it.. Launchpad has accepted it so hopefully it'll work - although I expect it won't first time.
It's the November 2007 release of tuxpaint-stamps, made for hardy. None of the November release has been packaged yet, even in Debian experimental.
Tuxpaint is is *main*, because of Edubuntu! |
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| free sounds |
[Oct. 22nd, 2007|03:30 pm] |
I'm looking for free sounds to incorporate into a GPL licensed project (tuxpaint). Commons has very little alas, and Creative Commons sampling licenses are utterly non free. I reckon I'll have to record stuff myself..
The Freesound Project I disagree.. You can't distribute the unmodified sounds commercially. Pretty clearcut non-free.
I'm looking for a chunky chain noise, something for calligraphy and something for kaleidoscope. Very clear and kid friendly. I think kaleidoscope could be slightly magical. Calligraphy could be pen or brush on paper. |
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| tuxpaint |
[Jul. 5th, 2007|12:45 am] |
On the tuxpaint website we say we cover ages 3 to 12 (preschool and K-6). Of course the phrase K-6 means nothing here, it's a US term.
I'm looking at explaining what we do in UK terms. From what I can see we cover key stages 1 & 2. Key stage 1 is 5-7 years old amd QS2 is 7-11 years old. There is a national curriculum for England (and different ones for Scotland and Wales I presume) with this as the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) section.
There is this which is a government regulated market place for curriculum support multimedia. I've no idea what the quality is like but the bureaucracy to register is impressive. Of course we are not actually for sale and we don't provide paid support. These things don't favour volunteer run projects.
I may look at getting us onto the multimedia software database - but I'm not sure under what organisation as we're not incorporated. It'd be our windows (and/or our Mac) ports they'd be interested in. I know I can make a good match between what we do and the national curriculum, but we don't want their dreadfully titled "e-learning credits" which may break stuff.
My experience with those who claim to sell open source to the UK (well Jono Bacon) has been strongly negative. I don't honestly believe he's ever worked with the public sector - if he has it must be in a real backwater. Ubuntu UK would be the kiss of death with their laddish humour (and I would refuse point blank to work with either in a volunteer capacity regardless).
I think the best bet is to write out where we match with the National Curriculum. This would be as a sub page on the web site. I've posted about this on tuxpaint-devel but I expect people think it's a bit local...
I know precisely nothing about education in the UK, but I have worked in local government. There are barriers to access - mainly linguistic but some cultural and bureaucratic. We may not get on every school in the land but we can certainly do a lot better than we are now. (This does mean that bizarre geeky figures ranting about "extreme political correctness" are kept WELL away from anyone). I expect most educational software is dire - maybe the costs of getting approved ensure that. Better stuff is out there if only they knew about us. |
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| stuff |
[Jul. 4th, 2007|09:38 pm] |
Went to the Co-op as I decided it would be easier than the Walworth Road. I'm not convinced it is actually cheaper than Costcutters or the 24 hour deli. They've removed the pile of cheap Creme Eggs. I'm very disappointed but at least it saved me buying more.
I'm trying to set more more stuff for sale on ebay. I'm not sure how any of this will do but here goes. I'm also bidding on some shiny purple doc martens :)
I think we've finally released: Tuxpaint 0.9.17! It's available to download for Mac and Windows, and is currently in Debian Sid. |
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| and finally |
[Jun. 23rd, 2007|11:32 pm] |
I didn't go and customise any plant pots. All my creative energies went into tux paint..
I'd made some musical instrument stamps as we didn't have any and they were on the 'to do' list. They were added but I was unhappy that we had musical instruments with no sounds (if any stamp needs a sound effect it's a musical instrument one!). I went looking on commons and found that the commons picture of the day was of a bassoon. Doomed! We obviously needed *that* and if I'm going to prepare one photo I might as well do a few..
The current eta for the new release is next week.. I have loads of stuff in it :) Doing stuff for tuxpaint seems an easy way of making quite a big difference, and a way of giving back to open source without being a coder. I've done a lot of commons mining as this is the sort of thing commons *is for* although I'd like to go back and make more original content for 0.9.18 :) |
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| morning ;) |
[Jun. 20th, 2007|07:46 am] |
Yes I'm awake and the post office opens in 15 minutes... This means that I will get my stuff *and* will get to Brixton by 11am..
I've washed my hair and spent the night on tuxpaint. It can be slightly more productive than renaming people on wikipedia (which is all I ever seem to be able to do if I log in to en: these days.)
Made a starter image from a map of the US states. Also made stamps of musical instruments, 2 requested fruits and the requested (by me) student favourite the traffic cone.
Yes that's right. Tuxpaint 0.9.17 will have SVG support, some fancy input stuff *and* a traffic cone. How can you resist? ;) |
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| Yes I'm still awake |
[Jun. 19th, 2007|04:42 am] |
Yes I'm still awake. I'll be going to bed soon though as I have to get to the post office by 1pm! (and yes I am going to get there tomorrow I've decided)
I also have to be at Brixton by 4pm.
Tonight has belonged to tuxpaint. I've been fulfilling a feature request for maps you can colour in. Wikimedia Commons is as great for this as you'd imagine :) |
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| city farm sounds |
[Jun. 1st, 2007|05:18 am] |
In a vain attempt to avoid going to bed I've uploaded my farm noises to wikimedia commons. These were made and processed for tuxpaint so don't have latin names, breeds etc. It's a pig and it goes "oink!" - that's all tuxpaint needs really ;)
All ogg vorbis.
Moo!
baa!
BAA!
Oink!
Oink!
Oink!
Turkey noise
Hens (?) |
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| Tuxpaint update |
[Apr. 10th, 2007|11:19 pm] |
As someone asked for my tuxpaint files I've registered a project at sourceforge to host them. It's a bit like Tuxpaint-au but for random packs. We'll see if it gets accepted.. |
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| *yawn* |
[Apr. 6th, 2007|12:44 pm] |
Dunno what to do today. Net access isn't great - damn all these people using the communal interweb ;)
As everybody else is not at work obviously really busy LJ and my email are quiet.
I'm gonna wash my hair then I dunno. Maybe make some more jewellry. I hope I manage to sell some of this stuff..
None of my stamps and brushes for tuxpaint have been accepted (or rejected). I know that the main developer has a new baby but it still puts me off making any more. I should send in the ones I've done but not submitted anyway for completeness if nothing else.
The firewall-blocking-ebay problem is fixed by clearing personal data in firefox. Not narrowed it down to cache or cookies but it'll be something like that. The Council's website failing to connect 100% of the time is mysterious. It's not affecting other people so is it being blocked locally? (but then wouldn't it give an error message like ebay?). I've wondered whether the Council is blocking non-UK requests and getting confused by AOL's proxy hell but decided that they wouldn't be so stupid. If I'm bored enough and the net is better I'll try using a proxy like JAP or CoDeeN.
Oh I don't have any eggs but I have chocolate! Iceland have 2 330g bars of Cadbury's Dairy Milk for £2. I've already eaten most of one of them - oops! |
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