HELP TEST: Open Clip Art Library’s new engine, ccHost now support SVG

Updated August 30, 2006 @ 2:09 am

Hello, I posted over at Open Clip Art Library’s website, but I wanted to get maximize readership:

Hello, our new engine, ccHost, now accepts SVG files thanks to the great work by Roan! Everyone should +10 thank him! Please see the great functioning test site: http://www.openclipart.org/cchostSo, please help us best by uploading test SVG files to this installation. We hope to move to it very shortly (hopefully within the week). There are still a few tasks in the migration we need help with such as:

  1. export of our content from the old system to the new one
  2. SVG thumbnails
  3. writing metadata to SVG files in getid3
  4. migration of old web content from old site to the new one

The tasks are listed on the ccHost Migration page on the wiki. Please e-mail the mailing list or hop onto our chat channel, #openclipart on irc.freenode.net if you want to help out. We are very close now to switching to this new infrastructure. If you are having any problems uploading to the present site, please try the new one at http://www.openclipart.org/cchost. Thanks!

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Good Post on Immigration

Updated August 26, 2006 @ 5:36 pm

Deer Fang has a good observation on immigration and locally-owned businesses in San Francisco. I totally am avoiding Noe Valley now after having a rude shopkeeper talk down to me at Tuggy’s Hardware Shop about buying vacuum bags. Also, I’m really not into the overpriced products up-the-hill from where I live.

I’m all about going down the hill to the cheaper markets and nicer people from where I live in the mission in San Francisco. I live half-way between the gentrified, expensive baby strolling, mom-toting, Noe and the cool Mission.

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Pig Latin as a LOCALE? And, how to get a funky translation into your desktop app…

Updated August 23, 2006 @ 1:05 am

I have been committing patches to Inkscape left and right. Today I added one for pig latin. Looks like I had to do some pioneering to get pig latin to work in Linux. I wrote about it on the pig latin page in wikipedia in case others want to add fun languages to their list of translations.

Basically, to add your own language that is not from some country locale, you really should base it on some locale. For example, if I wanted to add an black vernacular english translation, I would create this in the file en_US@bve.po. Similarly, if I wanted to create a translation for midwest English, I’d create en_US@midwest.po.

Anyway, to test out pig latin in Inkscape, run from the commandline:

LANG=en_US@piglatin inkscape
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