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Libertà: Looking for new staff.

Steve Lamerton's picture
Submitted by Steve Lamerton on June 24, 2006 - 4:29am

I am going to put some ads on Sourceforge for a Documentation Writer and a Linux Compiler/ Packager and a Release Tech soon but if any one here is interested then please post of e-mail me.

The Documentation Writer will be needed as soon as the new site is up to write the Handbook and th Readme's etc. No specific amount of time needs to be spent on it, just write some when you can.

The Linux Compiler / Packager needs to be able to use a C++ compiler and have a small amount of C++ knowledge so that all of the C++ apps can be ported to 'nix.

The Release Technician. The developers would e-mail you their latest build and you would do a quick check to see if it worked and all of the files (readme etc) were there and then package it up in a self extracting archive and up load it to Sourceforge. That way all of the apps will have the same file naming conventions etc. You would also be in charge of maintaining the Suite when it is released and for putting up announcements when the software is released.

AppInfo?

pfeerick's picture
Submitted by pfeerick on June 24, 2006 - 2:47am

Does anyone know what this "AppInfo" folder is that John's been including on the later PortableApp releases? ie. "Apps\PortableFirefox\AppInfo"

Is it for the PortableApps launcher that he's working on?

pfeerick

FingerGear bootable USB drives?

Submitted by johnnyh on June 23, 2006 - 12:57pm

I noticed these new USB drives on the market and was wondering if any of you knew what they did and how?

http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/news/articles/story_6844.html

Are they actually useful or is it some kind of BS hype? I'm wondering if you could just stick it in and boot an OS of it on any computer you come across. Highly doubtful, but it would be nice.

Can anyone give me the rundown? Thanks...

Holidays!

Ryan McCue's picture
Submitted by Ryan McCue on June 23, 2006 - 12:11am

Well I'm off again to God knows where.
I'll be back in two weeks. However, this time I may be able to come online once or twice since we have a laptop this time.
Mind you, I'm still taking my USB.
Just like to say thanks to John again, since we are borrowing someone else's laptop and my dad thought we were stuffed cause it only had Outlook and he didn't want to modify it.
I showed him Portable Thunderbird. He is converted.
Anyway, any questions, comments etc?
Those icons are pretty much done for Libertà (well only the folder icon is done but that's the base) except for the main one. Choose a font Steve! Unless, you don't read your emails anymore...

Forum RSS feeds

Submitted by say2sky on June 21, 2006 - 11:07pm

Thanks a lot for providing the RSS feeds which is giving a easy way to track the new info in this forum.

But the forum extension provided by Drupal seems not providing RSS feeds of user's reply to the forum topic. it only provide RSS feeds of new topic. If this can be changed to provide both, we will be more comvenient to get all info. Thanx again. Your efforts is greatly appreciated.

Portable Programming?

Submitted by Algo on June 21, 2006 - 3:45pm

I'm wondering what programming environments/compilers/etc. are available. I have a 1gb usb flash drive. Right now I have dev-c++. I would prefer complete portability, but would do with something that writes some stuff to the registry and/or hard drive. I looked into a portable python but only found one that costs money so that was out of the question. Any portable java? delphi? Any at all.

Thanks!

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