GNOME Summary January 25 - January 31 2004

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

This is the GNOME Summary for 2004-01-25 - 2004-01-31
    
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Table of Contents
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1. GNOME Booth at SOLUTIONS LINUX In Paris
2. Dropline GNOME 2.4.2 released
3. GNOME 2.4 in Debian Sarge
4. Anjuta 1.2.1 Released
5. GNOME Platform Bindings 2.5.3
6. ooo-build-1.1.50 Released
7. GNOME Weekly Summary Seeks Web Development People
8. Translation Efforts Brings Notice from Microsoft

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1. GNOME Booth at SOLUTIONS LINUX In Paris
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Gael Chamouland and GNOME France Team have organized a GNOME Booth at the 
Solutions Linux 2004 Conference in Paris from February 3rd to the 5th.. 
Primarily geared towards IT managers; GNOME's presence will hilight the 
viability of a Free Software based corporate desktop to the French IT industry. 
Thanks Gael and others for their hard work in organizing the booth and getting 
GNOME's name out. 

        http://www.solutionslinux.fr/en/index.php
        http://www.gnomefr.org/

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2. Dropline GNOME 2.4.2 released
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Dropline GNOME is a version of the GNOME Desktop that has been tweaked for 
Slackware Linux systems. It is available in Slackware's standard .tgz package 
format and also in the usual source code form. This release fixes a number of 
installation issues, in addition to the usual bug-squashing. 
Slackware is one of the best [GNU]Linux distros around, and indeed, it is great 
to see our favourite desktop tweaked specifically for it. 

        http://www.dropline.net/gnome/download.php

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3. GNOME 2.4 in Debian Sarge
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It's apt-get time again - for GNOME 2.4 (or more specifically, meta-gnome2) has 
made it into testing. Simply do an 'apt-get install gnome' and you will be 
ready to do the dance. Yay!! 

        http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=1039

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4. Anjuta 1.2.1 Released
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The Anjuta team released a new version of their IDE. This version is primarily 
a bug-fix version with at least one new feature. 
The Anjuta team is also looking for new blood to help continue making Anjuta 
IDE the best out there. So please, if you have time and a desire to make Anjuta 
better - this is your chance! 
Anjuta is a versatile IDE for C and C++, written for GTK/GNOME. 

        http://www.anjuta.org/

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5. GNOME Platform Bindings 2.5.3
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The GNOME Platform Bindings have been released. There is some added support for 
C# that are currently beta quality. Currently the bindings support C++, Java, 
and Perl. 
The GNOME Platform Bindings allow programmers to develop for GNOME using 
something other than C. 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2004-January/msg00090.html
        http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/modules.html
        http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/bindings/rules.html
        http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/

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6. ooo-build-1.1.50 Released
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Michael Meeks released the OpenOffice/Gnome integration package. The package 
allows a normal being to build open office with ease. 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2004-January/msg00093.html
        http://ooo.ximian.com/packages/OOO_1_1_0/ooo-build-1.1.50.tar.gz

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7. GNOME Weekly Summary Seeks Web Development People
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Attention all of you out there who want to contribute to the GNOME project 
somehow but don't exactly want to dive into lower-level programming - here is 
your chance! The GNOME Weekly Summary is looking for a few good people with 
very good web design skills. This would including a skill set that contains 
several of the following items: 
1) First, experience coding in HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, CSS2, etc. 
2) Connecting a web site to a database to make a dynamic site is definitely a 
positive skill to have. 
3) If you don't want to code websites but want to do layout mock-ups and image 
creation/enhancements in the GIMP, that is also possible. 
4) You don't need to commit to working 24/7, but coming up with a consistent 
schedule of when and how long you can work on this project is a must. Even if 
it's helping for just a short time-span such as 2 weeks or an indefinite amount 
of time. Consistency is key. 
If this is your skill set and you want to contribute then let me summarize some 
of the future things we'd like to have for the GNOME Weekly Summary. 
First, we'd like to put up a more official website for the GNOME Weekly Summary 
where readers can know where they'll find the latest summary and can quickly 
navigate to past issues. Second, we'd like to setup an RSS feed to push to 
readers. Third, a community interaction page would be very cool. The vision for 
this would be links covering how to get involved in GNOME Weekly Summary, where 
to submit news/articles to, etc. And we're open to hearing what types of things 
you'd like to see the GNOME Weekly Summary team add. Please post to the GNOME 
Weekly Summary mailing list if you'd like to get involved. A link to the 
mailing list follows this ad. 
mailto:gnome-summary gnome org


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8. Translation Efforts Brings Notice from Microsoft
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Microsoft has decided to release a Welsh translation pack for Windows thanks to 
the efforts of a small group of Welsh translators working on translations for 
Linux. While not exactly GNOME specific, the people involved in the Welsh 
translations also work on GNOME translations including Telsa Gwynne and Rhys 
Jones. Just shows how working on translations is an important part of a desktop 
project. After all, it woke up the sleeping giant! 

        http://www.advogato.org/person/Rhys/diary.html?start=8
        http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/35096.html

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