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Looking for sponsorship for GUADEC ’06

The GNOME User’s and Developer’s European Conference is a annual event for GNOME users and developers, and this is the seventh year it runs. We, as Greek localisation team, did not have the chance to attend this event yet. If you know of any sponsoring opportunity, please contact us at team at gnome dot gr. …

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“Proposal for additional QA and localisation time on Dapper”

Mark Shuttleworth sent an e-mail titled Proposal for additional QA and localisation time on Dapper to request a six-week delay for the release of the next version of Ubuntu Linux. meeting on Tuesday 14th March – once at 09:00 UTC (for the Aussies and Asian communities) and then again at 18:00 UTC (for Europe and …

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Greek Polytonic HOWTO

Dimitri Marinakis has written a HOWTO on Hellenic (Greek) Polytonic in free and open-source software, licensed by the GNU Free Documentation License. It gives a background in Ancient Greek and describes how to use Greek Polytonic (read and write) in your Linux system. Simossimos.info

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Taxis and security

It is quite encouraging that citizens taxed in Greece are able to file their tax reports through the Web, at the Taxis Website. Sadly, it has been reported that standard-compliant Web browsers are not supported by the Taxis Website. If you are affected, do complain about it! If you file taxes and you are affected, …

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Ξεσκεπάζω την ψυχοφθόρα βδελυγμία

When you choose a font in the Font Preferences, you can find a sample text that displays all the letters of the current system language. In this way, you are able to to have a good understanding of how a font looks like. Such phrases are called Pangrams, meaning contains all the letters. The most …

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February stats (Planet FLOSS Cyprus/Greece)

February has been a good month for Planet FOSS Cyprus/Greece. Over 2100 unique visitors visited, producing over 18000 page hits and taking up 3.2GB of bandwidth. Most of the visitors arrive early in the afternoon with some big peaks between 15:00 and 18:00. The majority of the visitors come from Greece (around 50%)  while a …

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