As you may know that GNOME.Asia 2010 will be hosted in mid August in Taipei. If you are interested to join this annual GNOME event and be one of our speakers, please find below the sponsorship program. Feel free to apply if you need it. See you there! Dear GNOME friends, The GNOME Foundation provides [...]
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Basic rules for FOSS Localization
I have been spending some time reviewing a few FOSS educational software translations over the last months. Localization is a commitment if you want to do a good job; badly localized software leads to poor experience (people simply won’t use the software) and gives the wrong message that FOSS applications are just bad software. So [...]
Wende School Trial – Part 5 (Localized TuxTyping)
We have been looking for an Open Source typing application for kids for quite some time. We found TuxTyping appealing and decided to localize the interface and the 43 typing exercises that come with it into Chinese. TuxTyping is an educational typing tutor for kids starring Tux, the Linux penguin. This educational game comes with [...]
A productive day at “Coding for Fun”
As you may know Beijing Linux User Group has a lot of interest groups and one of the most popular groups is “Coding for fun“. The purpose is to bring together developers in an informal way to encourage them to share their projects and coding experience. It’s basically like a Hackathon, everyone hacks on their [...]
First Joint Event with Beijing GNOME User Group
Beijing Linux User Group (BLUG) and Beijing GNOME User Group (BGUG), two of the most active open source communities in Beijing just celebrated their anniversary in November (one day after the other)! With 7 and 1 year of services for BLUG and BGUG respectively it was about time we organized a joint event. In fact [...]
