Tomorrow I’ll fly to Gran Canaria to attend this great event and I got lots of good expectations since it’s gonna be my first GUADEC.
I hope to attend many conferences and hang out with fellow Igalians and friends.
A lot of important names in our world of Open Source and particularly, Open Desktop will be there so it can only be great!
I’ll give two talks in there. A lightning talk about my OCR project — OCRFeeder — and another one that gives a practical view on the new Hildon (or “The Fremantle Way”).
By the way, I used ReStructured Text to do my presentation (using the rst2odp script) and save time from using Open Office. You should try it too.
So, thanks to my dear girlfriend everything is packed already (I always think my socks time-traveled to Narnia), the camera battery is charged, presentations are finished and I’m ready to go — I don’t mention my laptop because we’re “symbiotically” connected and where I go “he” goes.
Rancho is available in English, Portuguese and Spanish (okay, I know some strings are not *yet* updated but they’ll be).
As we think it’ll benefit more people who don’t speak these languages, we’re asking for translators who want to contribute to this Open Source project.
We have a nice Rosetta app installed where the translators will be able to log in and easily translate the strings.
You’ll also be credited on Rancho’s next version.
If you’d like to translate Rancho to your language send me an email presenting yourself (who are you, projects you’ve worked on, etc.) and we’ll arrange a login for you. (You can also translate the .po file directly but that’s a less collaborative way than doing it on Rosetta)
I’ve just created and pushed a setup.py script to let you easily install OCRFeeder.
Setuptools are really a great tool and although it was the first time I used them, it was so straightforward!
Now, to install OCRFeeder all you have to do is to download it:
$ sudo python setup.py install
Awesome!
I’ll try to have it on PyPI soon as well so it gets even easier for everyone to use my OCR project.
Stay tuned!
I’m very happy to announce you that the new version of Rancho is out!
This version has many new things starting by its name/number. We decided to start using n Ubuntu-like versioning and so, instead of just incrementing numbers, we’ll use the year.month notation. So here you have the 9.06!
But what’s new in this new version!?
One of the main new features is the exportation and importation of you accounts using the Rancho Exportation File.
This file will contain all the information that you have on your Rancho system so you can use it for example on other systems or as a back up, etc.
Another really useful new feature is that now Rancho can import Basecamp exportation files! This means that you can export your account from Basecamp, import it on your Rancho installation and keep using what you had.
The design changed just a bit regarding the layout which is now fluid, adapting itself to your browser’s width.
For the admins, we introduced a logging system that let you easily see what’s being done in the whole system.
The search was also improved in terms of power and presentation. Search results are now divided in categories (Messages, Milestones, Wikiboars, etc.) to be easily filtered according to what users need.
To end, people in every project can now chat with each other with the new integrated real-time chat and a lot of bugs were fixed.
Here are a couple of screenshots:
What are you waiting for? Get now Rancho 9.06 from www.getrancho.com!
