Ubuntu Advocacy

28 January 2008 – 1:41 pm

Philip Newborough has created a set of  Ubuntu Advocacy images.

Check out is blog (LINK) if you want to help translat the image set.

Available also in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.

Good work Philip! :)

To Fon or not to Fon?

10 January 2008 – 5:10 pm

The Answer is : To Fon :D !

Todey I got my order of 2 Routers Wireless La Fonera+  and 1 antenna. Bought them with the Fon promotion

Check out theFon Shop, the promotion is still on.

http://www.fon.com

Free Software in Education

10 January 2008 – 11:46 am

This post is about a portuguese project, about the use of Free Software in schools. I’ll try and translate the text soon.

EscolasLivres.org

Inkscape SVN snapshot - Ubuntu .deb’s

6 January 2008 – 4:24 pm

For Ubuntu users that would like to get a preview of the new Inkscape, here is a development snapshot of SVN HEAD, as of Jan 4th: Inkscape 0.46~svn20080104 for Gutsy, and Inkscape 0.46~svn20080104 for Hardy.

This snapshots were greated by bryce Thanks !

Lots of changes since the last Stable, one of them is Speed! for example, exporting to PNG is much more faster! and memory usage is better :)

Give it a test , and if you find bugs, why not help the project and submit them here.

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31 December 2007 – 12:00 pm

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Merry Xmas!

23 December 2007 – 10:23 pm

Merry Christmas to all!

Wake me up when it’s all over - xmas

Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course

21 December 2007 – 11:57 pm

“OK folks the long awaited Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course is ready, waiting and all yours for the taking!”

Oficial : https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-desktop-course

Mark Shuttleworth recently announced the release of the “Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop” Course. Created with the help of the community to create a complete course to help companies train their staff and so on.

Licensing under open terms (CC-BY-NC-SA) , check the Wiki for more info : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training

How to get the manuals ?
They are avalabe at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training : StudentInstructor

To get the latest version you need bazaar and dblatex to help create the pdf: bzr e dblatex

sudo apt-get install bzr dblatex

Get the source:

bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~billy-cina/ubuntu-desktop-course/ubuntu-desktop-course

cd ubuntu-desktop-course

Create the PDF:

Student Guide: make booksg
Instructor Guide: make book
Q&A for Student Guide: make questions

Have fun ;)

Equipa l10n pt-PT do Mozilla Firefox

17 December 2007 – 6:22 pm

Usas o Mozilla Firefox?

Gostavas de ajudar a comunidade?

Já pensaste em ajudar a traduzir o Firefox para Português?

Vê no site da equipa l10n pt-PTo que podes fazer:

Neste momento está a ser traduzido o Firefox 3, dêem uma ajudinha ;)

Podem fazer download da última versão em desenvolvimento AQUI 

Give someone the Gift of Freedom…

9 December 2007 – 5:38 pm

Share the Spirit

GNU/Linux UBUNTU aproxima Europa e África

9 December 2007 – 3:35 pm

A Comunidade Ubuntu em Portugal (Ubuntu-PT) e a Associação Nacional para o Software Livre (ANSOL), saúdam a Cimeira Europa-África, e a avenidas que se abrem para uma maior comunicação entre os dois continentes.

Podem ler o comunicado da Comunidade Ubuntu-PT e da ANSOL no blog de Software Livre do SAPO:

http://blog.softwarelivre.sapo.pt/2007/12/09/gnulinux-ubuntu-aproxima-europa-e-africa

Boa leitura ;)