Month: April 2008

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mozilla poland at work

We’ve met with stas once again to do some co-working. Stas was supposed to be nailed down by his stuff, I was supposed to be nailed down by mine, so we decided to meet and disturb each other. In reality, it was extremely creative even if we failed to reach the peak with productivity.

We’ve been localizing, coding, planning database architecture, localizing, talking about communities, and working on the WorldControl product as always.

But we know that one picture is worth thousand words, so we’ve set up a camera and did a shot at random intervals.

We both believe that the result slideshow gives a nice overview on the day of mozilla localizer’s work聽 馃檪

Saturday evening, somewhere in Warsaw… 馃檪

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Magyarorsz谩g gy艖z!

Gratul谩ci贸k!!! 馃檪

It’s incredible. Would you believe me if I told you about a product made by an open source community of聽people, all gathered around a non-profit foundation could be a significant challenger to a competitor whose product is bundled with the most popular operating system on Earth?

Welcome to Hungary – a 10 mln people country in Central Europe, where according to the latest results from Gemius Weekly*, Mozilla Firefox 2 has reached the top of the browser version list there.
Of course it doesn’t mean that we’re the most popular browser in Hungary (yet!) – the number of IE 6 and IE 7 users when added together still means Microsoft has a total market share of 60%, but for the first time in the history of Mozilla project we have seen from an external and reliable data source – a country reporting Firefox topping the browser “Version” list.**

Amazing… And we’re just 10 years old. 馃檪

Now for more hard work… we need to start thinking even further about how we can achieve our mission with a much stronger position, especially as this may soon be happening in several other countries as well 馃槈

Congratulations to the Hungarian Mozilla Team!

*) Gemius claims their data is reliable for the country. According to my estimations it really is (they measure over 60% of the Internet traffic in Hungary).
**) No we’re not sure if this is the first country with such result, but it’s the first measured result we know about. 馃檪

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Spotkanie Aviary.pl, kwiecie艅 2008

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smalolepszy/sets/72157604504164533/Siedzimy w Krakowie, w 13 os贸b debatujemy nad przysz艂o艣ci膮 Aviary.pl 馃檪

Staramy si臋 okre艣li膰 nasze plany, cele, przygotowa膰 wydanie Firefox 3 w Polsce, zaplanowa膰 rekrutacje, znale藕膰 zn贸w swoje miejsce na 艣wiecie.

Praca w Aviary.pl to niesamowita przygoda. Wszyscy uczymy si臋 pracowa膰 razem, budowa膰 zesp贸艂 i ustawicznie konstatujemy, 偶e ilekro膰 mamy mo偶liwo艣膰 zacz膮膰 na tym zarabia膰, odrzucamy j膮. Chcemy, aby pozosta艂o to naszym hobby, pasj膮, przyjemno艣ci膮.

Budujemy unikalny projekt w skali kraju, grupa os贸b w kompletnie r贸偶nym wieku, zebra艂a si臋 5 lat temu i wsp贸lnie buduje najwi臋kszy w Polsce zesp贸艂 lokalizacyjny. Jeste艣my dumni z marki kt贸r膮 zbudowali艣my, z jako艣ci, kt贸r膮 gwarantujemy, z pasji, kt贸ra chyba wida膰 we wszystkim co robimy 馃檪

Projekt o takiej skali, z takim sta偶em umie rozwi膮zywa膰 problemy, kt贸rych nie spodziwali艣my si臋 spotka膰. Kiedy tworzyli艣my zesp贸艂 nigdy nie wpad艂bym na to, 偶e najwi臋kszy problem mo偶e polega膰 na tym, 偶e ludzie wol膮 pracowa膰 przy projektach za darmo, cho膰 ofert zlece艅 nie brakuje. Ze mamy wci膮偶 nowych wolontariuszy, kt贸rzy chc膮 przy艂膮czy膰 si臋 i pomaga膰. Ze si艂a wdzi臋czno艣ci jest tak ogromna, i 偶e mo偶na zdoby膰 sobie renom臋 i sta膰 si臋 wyznacznikiem dla innych projekt贸w.

Jeste艣my szcz臋艣liwi i dumni z tego. To niesamowite uczucie siedzie膰 z tymi wszystkimi lud藕mi, z tym, kt贸ry przyjmowa艂 mnie do MozilliPL w 2000 roku (GmbH). Z tymi, z kt贸rymi zak艂ada艂em Aviary.pl, z tymi, kt贸rzy do艂膮czyli do nas przez lata, i z tymi, kt贸rzy do艂膮czyli ca艂kiem niedawno jak Malin i Witia.

Dzi臋kujemy wszystkim w polskiej spo艂eczno艣ci otwartych standard贸w za wsparcie naszych wysi艂k贸w. Dzi臋kuje wszystkim kolegom i kole偶ankom z zespo艂u. Specjanie dla tych wszystkich, kt贸rzy chcieliby pozna膰 tajemnice sukcesu naszego zespo艂u pod redakcj膮 Nikdo opracowali艣my podr臋cznik bazuj膮cy na naszych do艣wiadczeniach, ukazuj膮cy wszystkie tipsy i tricki oraz og贸lne zasady prowadzenia projektu takiego jak nasz.

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OpenOffice magic

I’m working on a set of slides for tomorrow’s Sec-Info Silesia conference. I’m usually doing a small lottery on what presentation system I want to use.

Will it be S5? OpenOffice Impress? Apple KeyNote?

I like S5 and feel natural with it. But I miss GUI editor, something like Nvu with S5 editing extension (Daniel? :))

I like KeyNote. It’s extremely sleek and professional. Working on slides in KeyNote is a pure pleasure.

But since I’m an open source advocate, I always cross check if I could use Impress and keep the quality, this time I gave a try to OpenOffice 2.4 with opengl transitions.

I must say OpenOffice is getting better. I’m testing 3.0DEV on Mac and I really like it, but even in 2.4, the UI starts to present me what I need, instead of what it can do.

One of the things that are new to OpenOffice 2.4 is a set of OpenGL based transitions. It’s one of those great results of the Google Summer of Code effort.

It looks so nice, I decided to make a small screencast. I gave a try to a few of the transitions available in 2.4, and it’s of course only for the screencast (I doubt you should ever use more than 1 slide transition type in one presentation. Maybe… another for key topic changes).

(All glitches are caused by poor screencapture programs, the quality of transitions is very high when viewed on screen.)

Of course blinking transitions is just a small part of what is new. With those all features in 2.4, and 3.0, OpenOffice is growing to meet the expectations.

It’ll be my first presentation in OpenOffice in two or three years, and I’ll do my best to make sure people won’t remember it because of the transitions, but because of the content 馃檪