Re: Considerations about official localized editions of Live CDs

2009-12-16 Thread Savvas Radevic
Aron, have you tried the DVD iso? http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/9.10/release/ It contains the packages of localized versions of Ubuntu for all languages. Maybe this is what you need. :) 2009/12/16 Aron Xu > Thanks Tom, but I think your suggestion isn't very to the point perhaps. > > I wan

Campus Party Europe in Madrid

2010-02-01 Thread Savvas Radevic
information about this and some pictures of > the accomodation area (do we share bathrooms, how many persons in a room, > etc.)? > > Cheers, > Savvas Radevic > aka medigeek > Re 2: > The invitation *is open to any member of the Ubuntu CY or any internet > passionate in Cyp

Fwd: Ubuntu as project in Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-03-13 Thread Savvas Radevic
-- Forwarded message -- From: Daniel Holbach Date: 12 March 2010 10:59 Subject: Ubuntu as project in Google Summer of Code 2010 To: ubuntu-devel-annou...@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Submit and discuss any Ubuntu related news stories Hello everyone! I'm very excited to announce that Ub

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] The Free Software, Open Source promise: what FOSS means for non-coders

2010-03-17 Thread Savvas Radevic
>> > When explaining this to people I use the analogy of a car Really useful -- I will probably use it sometime in one of my persuading attempts. Not long ago, during a discussion with a friend of mine, he was complaining that Ubuntu was too difficult for him and that he was going to uninstall i

Re: Announcing the Ubuntu.com Website Localization Project

2010-03-17 Thread Savvas Radevic
Hi Chris, I already have a "working" version of a multi-lingual php-based website[0]. I say "working", because it's a website pack, more or less centralized to work for ubuntu-cy. I don't know if it's good from a security point of view (I surely hope so), nor if it is suitable for the cause you n

Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Post-Install Guide: What to do and try after installing Lucid Lynx

2010-05-01 Thread Savvas Radevic
> Also, slightly off-topic, but i use Feedburner, which updates the time of > the post every time i make an edit. This is a disaster because i can't > update a post without it appearing on planet ubuntu every time i do. An ubuntu wiki page desperately wants you to write it. :) -- loco-contacts m

Re: Country info in the LoCo Directory

2010-06-21 Thread Savvas Radevic
Forgive me, but what's a "venue"? A place where people can meet other Ubuntu folks? -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: [Bug 585940] Re: Text reads "not recommended" for 64-bit

2010-07-09 Thread Savvas Radevic
Here's a vivid problem: Flash. Closed source application problem, and a bit off-topic. Is there any way to... encourage Adobe to release a new 64-bit plugin? Because that's the only thing that is seriously bugging my web experience in 64-bit. And of course the sad news that 64-bit experimental fla

Re: ubuntu logo in curves

2010-11-03 Thread Savvas Radevic
On 3 November 2010 17:18, Jan Husar wrote: > was checking Ubuntu Marketing and ubuntu on conferences > Jan, I don't know if you looked at this, but you also have spreadubuntu material, maybe it will save you some time in designing: http://spreadubuntu.neomenlo.org/ :) -- loco-contacts mailing l

Re: ubuntu-xx.org ssl certificates?

2012-10-17 Thread Savvas Radevic
Thank you! It was a fairly easy process and transition -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: launchpad locoteams branding

2013-01-12 Thread Savvas Radevic
On 12 January 2013 16:52, Dmitry Agafonov wrote: > depicting collaboration, unity and friendship How about interlocking rings, like the olympic rings? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Olympic_Rings.svg -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mail

Ubuntu-cy reacts to laptop funding pre-installed with Vista for high school students

2009-01-11 Thread Savvas Radevic
The Government of Cyprus / Ministry of Education has recently decided to fund high school students to buy a laptop. The funding will be about 400 EUR for each student. The website and more information about this is unfortunately posted in Greek: http://www.moec.gov.cy/ekpaideutiki_metarrythmisi/ind

Re: Ubuntu-cy reacts to laptop funding pre-installed with Vista for high school students

2009-01-11 Thread Savvas Radevic
> The same letter has been forwarded to major media stations in Cyprus > and has been posted today (Sunday, January 11th 2009): > http://www.scribd.com/doc/10061438/123165639623481-wwwpolitisnewscom > http://pdf.politis-news.com/pdf/pdf?-A=132214&-V=pdfedition Here's the actual html of the article

Re: Sarcasm and making fun of other projects in loco team lists

2009-01-14 Thread Savvas Radevic
I wouldn't care so much about such incidents, since it's definitely clear that they express their own opinion about a matter. May it be a good or bad comment, it's still a comment. People face facts in their life and sometimes oppose to them, some of them might be too realistic or even harsh about

Contribute with your voice, your videos and your photos!

2009-01-15 Thread Savvas Radevic
The Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase[3] is an opportunity to show off high quality free culture content in Ubuntu. At the heart of Ubuntu's ethos is a belief in showcasing free software and free culture, and with each development cycle we open the opportunity for any Free Culture artist to put their wo

Re: Honduras Local Team

2009-01-19 Thread Savvas Radevic
> Elvira Martínez is the current LoCo contact in Honduras: Someone should update the LoCo list then: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamList -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: LoCo Docs Day - 12th Feb 2009

2009-02-04 Thread Savvas Radevic
Documentation for LoCos? For example? I have taken this lovely post and wiki-fied/altered it to suit the Ubuntu-cy LoCo needs: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=896777 Result: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CypriotTeam/Contributing -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com htt

Re: LoCo Docs Day - 12th Feb 2009

2009-02-04 Thread Savvas Radevic
> Documentation for LoCos? For example? > I have taken this lovely post and wiki-fied/altered it to suit the > Ubuntu-cy LoCo needs: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=896777 > > Result: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CypriotTeam/Contributing > Ah wait, I got it, you mean the https://wiki.ubunt

Spam message with fake "From" imposing list owner to list owners

2009-02-13 Thread Savvas Radevic
I would like to bring to your attention a spam message you might receive if you're the owner of a mailing list. Namely, a spam message is floating around, faking the "From" header, as if it was sent from the "ubuntu-cy-owner" email (in my case) to the "ubuntu-cy-owner". I was personally puzzled wh

Re: loco-contacts Digest, Vol 46, Issue 4

2009-03-10 Thread Savvas Radevic
> No lo creo, mi estimado. > Siempre el Español y el Ingles, han sido idiomas necesarios, porque en todo el > mundo hay mucha gente que habla español. No entiendo Español - I'm one of the "gente" that don't speak Spanish, Pedro. :) But supposedly you are allowed to ask for help in other languages.

Re: Re : loco-contacts Digest, Vol 46, Issue 4

2009-03-10 Thread Savvas Radevic
2009/3/10 : > please stop sending your messages in english!! > I can't understand their object > my languages are occitan, catala or french > not english ! > claudi renat CROS Hi claudi renat CROS, This is an international mailing list, where a lot of people interact with each other - I

Re : loco-contacts Digest, Vol 46, Issue 4

2009-03-11 Thread Savvas Radevic
Not fair, you are comparing beans with broccoli - a way of communication and mutual understanding, that was agreed to be used worldwide, with a piece of software. ;-) I wouldn't argue on this, it's really pointless since there is no right or wrong. But I would like to point out that if the topic co

Re: Team Information Request

2009-03-16 Thread Savvas Radevic
> As some of you may know I am currently working on a LoCo Team Directory > solution that will replace the wiki teams list that is far from being good. 1) I trust that you or someone will take the burden to proof-read and update the wiki page as well. Unless of course the LoCo team list will defin

Ubuntu-cy: Announcement of the Ubuntu 9.04/Fedora 11 Release party

2009-04-23 Thread Savvas Radevic
-- Forwarded message ------ From: Savvas Radevic Date: 2009/4/12 Subject: Announcement of the 3rd Release party Ubuntu/Fedora To: ubuntu-cy loco team Source: - http://www.ubuntucy.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=834 - http://www.ubuntucy.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=833 - https:/

Re: Re : loco-contacts Digest, Vol 48, Issue 12

2009-05-26 Thread Savvas Radevic
> Nous ne pouvons pas la faire pour vous. You actually can: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts You just put in their email next to "Unsubscribe or edit options" button and at the new page click the "Unsubscribe" button. -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubunt

Re: Did anyone else get a subscription from....

2009-06-03 Thread Savvas Radevic
I forgot to report this to ubuntu-locoteams, I noticed it a couple of days ago and asked: Savvas Radevic to new...@newman.archiveorange.com date2 June 2009 02:13 subject archive site? Hi, is this an email for an archiving site? I noticed that you registered in ubuntu

Re: Did anyone else get a subscription from....

2009-06-03 Thread Savvas Radevic
>> Hoping that it isn't data collection for spammers. > > It is, he also subscribed to kubuntu-users and ubuntu-ch, I just set > the moderation flag. Myriam, you said "it is" - did you mean that it is a spam collection service? Please confirm so I can remove the email in question. As I mentioned

Re: Did anyone else get a subscription from....

2009-06-05 Thread Savvas Radevic
He subscribed again: "new...@archiveorange.com has been successfully subscribed to Ubuntu-cy." You can block *...@*.archiveorange.com Privacy options... => [Subscription rules] I think this regular expression is ok (if it's correct that is): ^.*@(?:.*\.)?archiveorange.com -- loco-contacts mai

Re: LoCo Team Project laucnhpad team populated.

2009-06-12 Thread Savvas Radevic
> > Dear LoCo team contacts, > > As we continue to integrate the LoCo directory with launchpad, We have > sent invitations out to most of the teams in > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamList to the laucnhpad team created > https://launchpad.net/~locoteams . A sm

Re: weird subscription

2009-06-20 Thread Savvas Radevic
he code through its paces. Regards, Matt On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:06:48 +0200, Savvas Radevic wrote: > 2009/6/20 > >> s...@aberro.co.uk has been successfully subscribed to Ubuntu-cy. >> >> > > Hi I've noticed that you have subscribed to ubuntu-cy mailing list. Your

Re: Ubuntu-cy reacts to laptop funding pre-installed with Vista for high school students

2009-07-04 Thread Savvas Radevic
A late reply, but I think that I should at least document it. So, to those interested, this was the outcome: # 2009-02-26: Held two presentations: > >* St. Neophytos high school (Limassol) >* Ministry of Education (Cyprus Government) > > # 2009-02-03: Meeting with Alexandros Kofteros (Apop

Re: Free Official Ubuntu books for Approved LoCo Teams

2009-07-30 Thread Savvas Radevic
> > All in all a pretty sweet deal, methinks. Enjoy! > 1. It would be great if they could provide *free* *official* PDF versions instead of providing a single copy of each book. 2. Is the book still under CC-by-sa license? 3. Where can I find the source? -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contact

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-03 Thread Savvas Radevic
How about leaving it as it is and force-join another channel? I would suggest to force-join e.g. #ubuntu-local, and set that channel as a relay for the local team. I particularly like the mixed #ubuntu :) On 8/3/09, Russell John wrote: > +1 from Bangladesh team. :) > > 2009/8/3 Jorge O. Castro :

Re: Why doesn't our LoCo mailing list discard non-member messages automatically?

2009-08-06 Thread Savvas Radevic
I think it's held because of spam assassin or a spam "score" filter, but it also checks non-member messages. I remember there's a spam score value somewhere in the mail admin settings, try set that to zero? I might be wrong though! On 8/6/09, Kevin Cole wrote: > Hi, > > On other Mailman lists I u

Spamassassin score - how to ignore non-members?

2009-08-13 Thread Savvas Radevic
Hi, every now and then I keep getting an email with a spam score and being held for review. I have set mailman to reject the non-members. Is there a way to do the same for these "spamassassin-tagged" spam emails? They are sent by non-members and still being held for review! -- Sent from my mobile

Re: Did anyone else get a subscription from....

2009-08-22 Thread Savvas Radevic
Has any mailing list administrators noticed a "Rob Newman" subscription? I'm not sure about the name (I deleted it a couple of days ago), but the email was: styaszni.gy at gmail -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: How can we participate in Global Jam?

2009-08-22 Thread Savvas Radevic
Well, according to these questions, there should be an faq section in the wiki pages! :-) -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

A general rule for launchpad ubuntu loco teams display name?

2009-09-06 Thread Savvas Radevic
Hello LoCo-alists :) I couldn't help to notice this morning that the names of the ubuntu teams are a *big mess*. See for your self: https://launchpad.net/~locoteams/+members - Team - LoCo Team, LoCal Team, Local Community Team - Ubuntu LoCo Team, Local Community Team - Ubuntu LoCo Team - Ubun

Possible to embed launchpad team maps?

2009-09-06 Thread Savvas Radevic
Is it possible to embed the launchpad team maps to a website outside Launchpad? If so, how? (A javascript code would be useful!) -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: A general rule for launchpad ubuntu loco teams display name?

2009-09-06 Thread Savvas Radevic
> for example the ubuntu-ve team refers to it as a "fraternidad Ubuntu de > Venezula", and it has had that name long before the LoCo team project > started. a name that has stayed with us even though we also reffer to > the team in many different ways. "Ubuntu Venezuela","Ubuntu Venezuela > Team",

Re: A general rule for launchpad ubuntu loco teams display name?

2009-09-06 Thread Savvas Radevic
Elizabeth: > I know this is just an example, but it's probably a bad one, since > ubuntu-us is not an actual LoCo team. The "US Teams Project" is a > mentoring project to help out the state teams throughout the United > States. Apologies, I wasn't aware of that - thanks for the explanation! Ethan

Re: Possible to embed launchpad team maps?

2009-09-06 Thread Savvas Radevic
> This is something that's being worked on. There is a project that is > being worked on to provide a portable LoCo Map. It's currently being > worked on as a Drupal module. When it's finished it will likely be > ported to django. There is a current show stopper, a bug (wishlist) > needs to be comp

Re: A GPG tutorial

2009-09-21 Thread Savvas Radevic
Is this for how to become an ubuntero? Instead of writing about it, I have created some screenshots showing the process from LP registration up to the ubuntero gpg signing: http://www.ubuntucy.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=993#p4764 P.S. There might be some text in greek on the images, it was me

Re: Help promoting Ubuntu Global Jam

2009-09-21 Thread Savvas Radevic
In my opinion, the best "license" would be releasing the artwork into the public domain, like the tango icon library, open clipart (and some indexed by clker.com) I believe it would boost more creative derivatives, even if the original creator is not mentioned. The proper thing in this case of cour

Re: Top things to do after installing Karmic

2009-10-30 Thread Savvas Radevic
I use medibuntu because the ffmpeg (and/or mplayer) package there has amr support (sony ericsson mobile videos) - really helpful for playback of mobile videos. :-) On 10/30/09, Martin Owens wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:45 +0100, Przemek Kulczycki wrote: >> 2009/10/30 Martin Owens : >> > ffmp

Re: T-shirts & nits

2009-11-11 Thread Savvas Radevic
I'm not in canonical/ubuntu, but the general concept from my short experience is: whatever you do, if the result benefits directly the loco team and helps to promote ubuntu, then do it. :-) Also, it's a good idea to post your actions and intentions in this mailing list, so you can always get the op