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A student at the University of Mainz in Germany, Almana Mukabenova, is doing some research on the usability of the translation tool Virtaal. She prepared a questionnaire for the purposes of her master's thesis:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NV9YFJR

I'm very interested to see what comes out of this, and want to encourage all users of Virtaal (past and present, serious and casual) to take part if they can.

According to Statcounter Firefox was the most popular web browser in Africa in September 2011. Here is the graph with their statistics:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-af-monthly-201109-201109-bar

It is a close call, but the trends are clear: Internet Explorer is becoming less popular, while Firefox and Chrome are still increasing in popularity and together already take up about 60%. Of course it is hard to say how accurate StatCounter's statistics are or how representative it is of reality, but it is still interesting to see.

There was some nice progress in preparation for GNOME 3.2 string freeze on a few bugs relating to strings in the last week. I pinged on a few bugs, and provided a patch or two. Many thanks to the developers who helped to close a few bugs.

This is a reminder to developers that we'll enter string freeze in about 2 weeks. Note that although the development release version 3.1.90 is postponed by a week, that should not affect the dates of the string freeze.

This week we saw the release of the GNOME 3.1.5 unstable release in the build-up to GNOME 3.2. I'm looking forward to see GNOME 3.2 in all its glory in my language, so I hope to work hard on the localisation, especially during the string freeze. This is a reminder to developers that we'll enter string freeze in about 3 weeks (we are already in the string notification period). Let's try to have a less bumpy ride during the string freeze for this release :-)

About two weeks ago we released version 0.7.0 of Virtaal. Virtaal is an advanced translation program with features to help translators increase translation quality and have fun.

After a lot of hard work, the GNOME project released a brand new version: GNOME 3! The little bit I've played with it, has impressed me quite a bit. I recommend that everybody at least try it out at some stage for a while.

This coming Saturday I'll be hosting a translate@thon for whoever is interested to work on the Afrikaans translations of the upcoming GNOME 3. I think it will be a pleasant day at the offices of Translate.org.za.

Read the full announcement (in Afrikaans)

This coming Saturday I'll be hosting a translate@thon for whoever is interested to work on the Afrikaans translations of the upcoming GNOME 3. I think it will be a pleasant day at the offices of Translate.org.za.

Read the full announcement (in Afrikaans)

I had the pleasure of meeting Claude Paroz, the maintainer of Damned Lies (the system for localisation statistics and workflow at GNOME). We started thinking about how Damned Lies might be able to provide guidance for smaller teams on prioritisation, and statistics that might provide better help with problems people want to address.