With Pootle we now have a user-friendly web portal that makes our translation process much simpler. It allows online translation, work assignment, gives statistics and allows easy volunteer contribution. A flexible workflow supports translation on an individual basis, cooperativ in teams or even by starting a powerful translation marathon.
We like to say thanks to the Pootle community for developing this tool and for the very friendly and helpful support. Special thanks goes to Friedel who helped on #pootle IRC to get the tool running.
Foswiki Translation Framework
You can access the translation framework on
translate.foswiki.org.
As we want to make the translation process as open as possible, everyone can make suggestions for translations without even to log in.
To assure high quality and consistent wording every language has a coordinator, who can approve translations and push them into the Foswiki SVN repository. On the Translation-Team topic you will find a list of all coordinators and translators supporting the effort.
Our community is growing every day and language support needs to speed up. It is our quality goal to offer Foswiki in as many languages as possible. This makes using Foswiki more convenient especially for beginners. The Translation framework is a big step to reach this aim. It is an invitation to everybody, to support the translation process and make Fowiki the best wiki ever created.
If you can’t wait to support the translation effort on Foswiki, please get in contact with our language coordinator André Ulrich.
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Foswiki Release Manager Kenneth Lavrsen
Tonight the Foswiki release Manager Kenneth Lavrsen announced the release of Foswiki 1.0.6:
Since the January release of 1.0.0 more than 160 additional bugs have been fixed.
This release includes further security improvements including a major enhancement in security against Cross-Site Request Forgery. These are further security enhancements we have decided to implement as a follow up on Security Alert CVE-2009-1434 that we issued on the 27th of April.
An updated version of the security will be sent to the major security sites.
It is highly recommended to upgrade your Foswiki to 1.0.6.
He also states, that relatively to the current TWiki release 350 more bugs have been fixed by the active Foswiki-community. The number of checkins surmounted 4.300 and a lot of new native Versions of Foswiki-Plugins are available.
Read the full announcement here.
You can download the new Foswiki version on the Foswiki web site: http://foswiki.org/Download
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When I heard Crawford Currie say
“The beauty of open source software is choice.”
I finally understood, why it is not that bad, that installing and configuring Foswiki sometimes seems hard for novices. But as you can choose between so much features and directions in Foswiki communication and guidance is important for new users. We offer preconfigured virtual machines for a first test in our download section. But as soon as you natively install Foswiki on your server you want to talk to somebody.
Foswiki offers multiple approaches to get help with the software:
- You can use our live Chat over IRC. You do not need any technical skills. Chatting works over the browser.
- You can call one of our skilled consultants, who will walk you through the whole wiki project with ease. These services are provided for money in most cases.
- You can ask a question over Twitter to our user @foswiki.
- Or you can send us an email and get your answer via mail.
Contact us via email through our Mailing lists
This mail contact over our Foswiki mailing lists on SourceForge should be the main issue of this blog post. If you send an email to foswiki-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net it will be forwarded to all active list members and they will discuss it with you. It is a public discussion list.
At http://n2.nabble.com/Foswiki-f2555947.html you can find a web based forum application for our Foswiki-mailing list, that also gives access to this mailing list. You can use the web front end or subscribe to a RSS feed for new threads or a RSS feed for new messages.
Add your picture to the Nabble-online forum now!
If you are a regular poster on the mailing list, please help new Foswiki users to get a better impression of our community by providing your own picture in the Nabble-forum-software by registering there. Thank you!
And if you are new to Foswiki:
Do not forget, that we care about you and your problems. Choose any channel and ask whatever you want. We will help you!
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