Hello all! This is the third update from the Haiku Promotion Team.
Beta3 Released
As you have noticed, Beta3 has been released! Huge shout out to kallisti5, who was the release coordinator for Beta3. Making a major release of Haiku is a daunting task to all involved!
New Team Members
Since I last wrote in March this year, we welcomed the following members to the Team:
- animortis
- AlwaysLivid
- jeremyf
Switching to IRC/Matrix
It was brought to our attention that the way the Promotion Team communicated was not a very transparent one – we communicated through a group private message on the Haiku forums. Thus, the decision was made to switch to IRC/Matrix, because it is a trusted technology, and it can be accessed from all major platforms including Haiku. Now, anyone can see what we are discussing and working on and can participate in our discussions! If you wish to join, we have a discussion room at #haiku-promo on OFTC, with bridges to Matrix.
As we get closer to the release of Beta 3, it is important we ensure our translations are updated.
Current State of Translation Work
- As of now, no new language has currently reached over 60% since Beta 2 was released last year.
- Croatian translations are at 58%. If no progress is made, this translation risks being removed from Beta 3!
- Korean, Hindi, Bulgarian, Czech and Norwegian were already under 60% in beta2 and are still under 60%, somewhere between 45% and 60% complete. It would be really appreciated if these translations were made more complete so they can be included with the Beta 3 release.
- Languages that are already available on Pootle, but need a lot more work:
- Punjabi
- Slovenian
- Arabic (unfortunately this translation can’t be displayed due to lack of right-to-left text support in Haiku)
- Serbian (both Latin and Cyrillic versions)
- Macedonian
- Maori
- Low German
- Persian
- Na’vi
Pootle
Translation Cut-off for Haiku's User Interface
The cut-off for interface translations on Pootle remains at 60%.
It’s been almost three months since I posted about the Haiku Promotion Team, and the response to my initial post has been amazing and exceeded my expectations!
There are now six of us (excluding myself) on the Haiku Promotion Team:
- scott_pupolo18
- stoltenberg
- tthoms
- mbrumbelow
- shaka444
- fox14
The Team communicates regularly through a private group chat on the Haiku forums, and stoltenberg has started up a kanban board, which you can view publicly here (Just ignore the login prompt that pops up once you open the kanban). On there, we’ve gathered ideas, tasks and plans for the future. stoltenberg also went through the forums and gathered your feedback and suggestions so far for consideration. If you have any feedback about the kanban or our plans in general, don’t hesitate to let us know on the forums.
Hi all, hope you are all having a great start to March! kallisti5 has put together a survey to help determine the priorities the Project should focus on for the immediate future. If you haven’t already, we would really appreciate if you filled out the survey - it is 100% anonymous and you do not have to enter any personal details.
You can fill out the survey here.
Please do not hesitate to give your feedback on Haiku in the survey - your feedback can influence decisions we make in the future. Additionally, if you have any feedback on how the survey should be conducted, please let kallisti5 know either through the forums or on the Haiku mailing lists.
Hi there, I’m jt15s, a new Haiku community member! I’ve been following the project for a few years now since I stumbled upon an article about Haiku.
If you read the title (which I’m assuming you did), you’re probably going, “wait, we have a promotion team?” Well, yes, now we do. As an informal “team” of two (currently), we are super excited to share our plans to help promote Haiku and make more people aware of it. In fact, this is the second iteration of a promotion team for Haiku. Until 2010, there was an active promotions team. Unfortunately, those who were involved on the team are not active in the Haiku community anymore and hence promotion efforts have mostly been dormant - until now.
