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		<title>More power, more power!</title>
		<link>http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/2009/04/10/more-power-more-power</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Δημήτρης Γλέζος</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indifex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electrons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that Indiplex was trying to pull more power from the network than what it could provide us. Luckily the electricity guys came right after we dropped them a call and quickly put things back in place. I asked the guy whether we burned out the cables from too much hacking. Without even smirking, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It seems that <span title="Purple tentacle chthonic laughter in the bg">Indiplex</span> was trying to pull more power from the network than what it could provide us. Luckily the electricity guys came right after we dropped them a call and quickly put things back in place.</p>

<p>I asked the guy whether we burned out the cables from too much hacking. Without even smirking, he said it was probably the wind.</p>

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		<title>A happy hacking summer</title>
		<link>http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/2009/04/09/indifex-summer-internships</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Δημήτρης Γλέζος</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FOSS, linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indifex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Printable, linkable, shareable. All the good stuff.)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a class="simlink" href="http://indifex.com/site_media/intern-flyer-09en.pdf"><img src="http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/interns-excerpt3.png" alt="Link to Indifex Internship flyer" title="Have what it needs?" width="500" height="214" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1138" /></a></p>

<p>(Printable, linkable, shareable. All the good stuff.)</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>New books: Spring &#8217;09 bookshelf</title>
		<link>http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/2009/03/29/new-books-spring-09-bookshelf</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Δημήτρης Γλέζος</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books/Music/Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indifex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech/web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New books arrival for our bookshelf. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister) It&#8217;s not how good you are, it&#8217;s how good you want to be (Paul Arden) A Smile in the Mind: Witty Thinking in Graphic Design (Beryl McAlhone and David Stuart) Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New books arrival for <a href="http://www.indifex.com/">our</a> bookshelf.</p>

<ul>
<li>Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister)</li>
<li>It&#8217;s not how good you are, it&#8217;s how good you want to be (Paul Arden)</li>
<li>A Smile in the Mind: Witty Thinking in Graphic Design (Beryl McAlhone and David Stuart)</li>
<li>Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition (Guy Kawasaki)</li>
<li>Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time (Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz)</li>
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<p class="imagelink alcenter"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24183489@N00/395079584/" title="La caverne aux livres" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/395079584_33463854a2.jpg" alt="La caverne aux livres" border="0" /></a><br /><span class="note">(<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/" title="Attribution-ShareAlike License" target="_blank" title="Published under a Creative Commons licence" >cc</a>) by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24183489@N00/395079584/" title="gadl" target="_blank">gadl</a></span></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>My Media Camp Athens 2 presentation</title>
		<link>http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/2009/03/24/my-mediacamp2-presentation</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Δημήτρης Γλέζος</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FOSS, linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indifex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mini-post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Startups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mediacamp]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Super-charge your Startup with Openness &#8212; The bullet points from my Media Camp 2 talk on Startups, Openness and Open Source (aka Loving the Bomb) are now collected and available as a presentation with a catchy title.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://dimitris.glezos.com/box/presentations/mediacamp2/">Super-charge your Startup with Openness</a> &#8212; The bullet points from my Media Camp 2 talk on Startups, Openness and Open Source (<acronym title="also known as">aka</acronym> Loving the Bomb) are now collected and available as a presentation with a catchy title.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Media Camp Athens 2 &#8212; Recap</title>
		<link>http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/2009/03/16/media-camp-athens-2-recap</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Δημήτρης Γλέζος</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Με 4 ώρες ύπνο (επί 3 ημέρες) το Σάββατο πρωί κατέβηκα στο Media Camp 2. Βλέποντας στο pre-registration αρκετά γνωστά ονόματα από developers και entrepreneurs καθώς και μια ενέργεια ζωντανών κοινοτήτων σαν του Drupal, αποφάσισα να κατέβω στο event. Οικοδεσπότης το πολλά υποσχόμενο, διαφημιζόμενο, και πολλά εμμέσως πληρωμένο Microsoft Innovation Centre. Πολύ χάρηκα όταν έμαθα [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Με 4 ώρες ύπνο (επί 3 ημέρες) το Σάββατο πρωί κατέβηκα στο <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nektar/3358942089/">Media Camp 2</a>. Βλέποντας στο pre-registration αρκετά γνωστά ονόματα από <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nektar/3358903391/">developers</a> και <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nektar/3359705666/sizes/l/">entrepreneurs</a> καθώς και μια ενέργεια ζωντανών κοινοτήτων σαν του <a href="http://www.mydrupal.gr/">Drupal</a>, αποφάσισα να κατέβω στο event.</p>

<div class="imagelink floatright"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/57782380@N00/3358895523/" title="MediaCamp" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3651/3358895523_bb9867f8f8_m.jpg" alt="MediaCamp" border="0" /></a></div>

<p>Οικοδεσπότης το πολλά υποσχόμενο, διαφημιζόμενο, και πολλά εμμέσως πληρωμένο Microsoft Innovation Centre. Πολύ χάρηκα όταν έμαθα ότι το MC2 θα φιλοξενηθεί εκεί, αφού δίνει μια ευκαιρία στην Microsoft να ακούσει για τις νέες ιδέες και τεχνολογίες που είναι δημοφιλείς στο Internet (lightweight apps, modern languages, loosly-coupled services, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nektar/3359723404/">open source</a> methodologies) και, developers-θέλοντος και δεινοσαυρικών-managers επιτρέποντος, να βοηθήσουν την εταιρία να αντεπεξέλθει στις <a href="http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/2009/03/16/new-ms-hellas-slogan">απαιτήσεις των σύγχρονων developers</a> και χρηστών των προϊόντων της. Rants aside, ευχαριστούμε τη Microsoft για την πολύ ζεστή φιλοξενία, καθώς και τους υπόλοιπους χορηγούς (καφές, σάντουιτς, πίτσες, κλπ).</p>

<div class="imagelink floatleft"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/57782380@N00/3358913019/" title="MediaCamp" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3465/3358913019_c2d14b6cc1_m.jpg" alt="MediaCamp" border="0" /></a></div>

<p>Χάρη στην πολύ καλή προετοιμασία των Bill και <a href="http://twitter.com/ThirdEye3">Κωνσταντίνα</a>, όλα ήταν έτοιμα το πρωί όταν φτάσαμε. Πιάσαμε σύντομα τα startup-ικά με τον Γιώργο Τζιραλή με ωραίο εσπρεσσάκι στην ταράτσα/βεράντα του κτιρίου με θέα την πολυάσχολη Βασιλίσσης Σοφίας. Με το Γιώργο το Σάββατο θα μιλήσαμε για θέματα από bootsrapping σε exit strategies, recruiting σε management, venture capital σε <span title="(pun intended)">actual business</span>. Με τον <a href="http://vrypan.net/">Παναγιώτη Βρυώνη</a> καλύψαμε όλες τις hot ιδέες που μας κατέβηκαν τελευταία στο κεφάλι, από projects του ενός ΣΚ (από αυτά που άλλοι θα έφτιαχναν startup ειδικά για αυτό) μέχρι και άλλα που θα ήθελαν δικό τους business plan. Good stuff.</p>

<p>Η <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/istor/3353742425/">συνεδρία μου</a> με θέμα &#8220;Open Source and Startups&#8221; με σαφή παραδείγματα στο πώς το χρησιμοποιούμε στην <a href="http://www.indifex.com/">Indifex</a> για να κάνουμε ωραία πράγματα, πήγε πολύ καλά. Η προσέλευση ήταν πολύ καλή και έγιναν μερικές πολύ καλές ερωτήσεις οι οποίες φώτιζαν νέες πτυχές του θέματος. Χάρηκα που είχα την ευκαιρία να μιλήσω για αυτό το θέμα, αφού γενικώς υπάρχει η αντίληψη ότι το ελεύθερο λογισμικό είναι κάτι για &#8220;χομπίστες&#8221;, και σε αντιπαραβολή για αυτό μίλησα πώς βοήθησε την εταιρία μας να φτιάξει ένα προϊόν το οποίο χειρίζεται δεδομένα που φτάνουν σε 5εκ χρήστες, να δημιουργήσει μια φοβερή ομάδα από code hackers, και να την εκπαιδεύσει στη παραγωγική χρήση μερικών από των πιο leading-edge και hot τεχνολογιών στον τομέα του developing και system administration που υπάρχουν (Pyhton/Django, Distributed Versioning Systems, Amazon Web Services, Automated App Testing, κλπ).</p>

<div class="imagelink floatright alright"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/57782380@N00/3359759488/" title="MediaCamp" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3464/3359759488_2c2cd461ac_m.jpg" alt="MediaCamp" border="0" /></a></div>

<p>Σε μια ad-hoc διάθεση, αποφάσισα να κάνω ένα <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vrypan/3355259880/">δεύτερο session</a> σχετικά με Web Frameworks, παρέα με τον <a href="http://twitter.com/KCorax" title="Γιώργος Κασσελάκης, έτσι για να τον κάνω να αλλάξει nick!">Κόρακα</a>. Με μια έντονη παρουσία του Drupal στο barcamp, η πρόταση ενός &#8220;anti-Drupal&#8221; session ήταν υπερβολικά δελεαστική ιδέα για να την προσπεράσουμε. Έτσι οργανώσαμε μια παρουσίαση/συζήτηση για τα εργαλεία που χρησιμοποιούν οι αληθινοί άντρες :P. Πέραν της πλάκας, μιλήσαμε για τις επιλογές από abstraction systems που έχει στη διάθεση του ένας web developer (και ο πελάτης, φυσικά), τα μέρη που ταιριάζει το χτίσιμο πάνω από ένα <acronym title="Content Management System">CMS</acronym>, το τι συνεπάγεται αυτό και τους περιορισμούς που φέρνει μαζί του. Σε αντιπαραβολή βάλαμε τα web frameworks (Django, Ruby on Rails, CakePHP) και τα πλεονεκτήματα που φέρνουν στα διάφορα context που προκύπτουν από τις ανάγκες των πελατών.</p>

<p>Αυτά! Overall a great Saturday, με πολλή ενέργεια και νέες ιδέες.</p>

<p>~glezos happy.</p>

<p class="imagelink alcenter"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/57782380@N00/3358920731/" title="MediaCamp" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3464/3358920731_96068121f4.jpg" alt="MediaCamp" border="0" /></a><br /><span class="note">all photos (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/" title="Attribution License" target="_blank" title="Published under a Creative Commons licence" >cc</a>) by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/57782380@N00/3358920731/" title="nsyll" target="_blank">nsyll</a></span></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>My MediaCamp2 presentation (14-15/3)</title>
		<link>http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/2009/03/13/mediacamp2-presentation</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Δημήτρης Γλέζος</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FOSS, linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indifex]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Transifex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Σε μια στιγμή μεταξύ βαθυστόχαστης αυτογνωσίας και αλκοολούχας τρέλας, αποφάσισα να ανέβω στο MediaCamp2 barcamp το ΣαββατοΚύριακο 14-15/2. Είδα ενδιαφέροντες παρουσίες στο event, και είπα να παρευρεθώ και να κάνω μια παρουσίαση. Ας περιγράψω λίγο για τι ψήνομαι να μιλήσω, με την ελπίδα περισσότεροι entrepreneurs να έρθουν και να μάθουν από την εμπειρία μας. Νομίζω [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="floatright"><img src="http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/newbanner21.png" alt="newbanner21" title="newbanner21" height="70" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1037" /></div>

<p>Σε μια στιγμή μεταξύ βαθυστόχαστης αυτογνωσίας και αλκοολούχας τρέλας, αποφάσισα να ανέβω στο <a href="http://mediacampathens.wordpress.com/">MediaCamp2</a> barcamp το ΣαββατοΚύριακο 14-15/2. Είδα ενδιαφέροντες παρουσίες στο event, και είπα να παρευρεθώ και να κάνω μια παρουσίαση. Ας περιγράψω λίγο για τι ψήνομαι να μιλήσω, με την ελπίδα περισσότεροι entrepreneurs να έρθουν και να μάθουν από <span class="title" title="read: τα παθήματα">την εμπειρία</span> μας.</p>

<p>Νομίζω δεν είναι μυστικό ότι στην <a href="http://www.indifex.com/">Indifex</a> αγαπάμε το ελεύθερο λογισμικό. Λίγο-πολύ όλη η ομάδα (5 hackers μέχρι στιγμής) είναι opensource-άδες, και οι developers είναι όλοι Linux-άδες με ενεργή εμπλοκή σε open source communities. Το <a href="http://transifex.org/">κυρίως προϊόν μας</a> είναι ελεύθερο λογισμικό το ίδιο, με τον πρώτο του χρήστη ένα <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/">δημοφιλές έργο ελεύθερου λογισμικού</a>. Χρησιμοποιούμε σχεδόν αποκλειστικά ελεύθερα εργαλεία και μιλάμε ανοιχτά για τα σχέδια και τις ιδέες της εταιρίας.</p>

<p>Γιατί πίσω από το Transifex, μια εφαρμογή με ένα κοινό εκατομυρίων χρηστών, σημαντικός μέτοχος είναι η επιμονή μας στις ανοιχτές ιδέες και τη συνεργασία μέσω του ανοιχτού κώδικα της εφαρμογής μας.</p>

<p>Στο MediaCamp2 λοιπόν, σκέφτηκα να μοιραστώ και με άλλους &#8220;startuppers&#8221; πώς στην Indifex χρησιμοποιούμε το Open Source μοντέλο για cost reductions, high-efficiency in developing, talent recruiting, productive customer feedback, marketing, code stability κ.α.</p>

<p>Catchy one liner: &#8220;Grow your startup by standing on the shoulder of giants&#8221;.</p>

<p>Και ακόμη μία: &#8220;Dr. OpenSource or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Startup&#8221;.</p>

<p class="alcenter"><a href="http://macniven.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/open_source.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://macniven.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/open_source.jpg" title="Open source" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="364" /></a></p>

<p><strong><ins>Update:</ins></strong> Η παρουσίαση ανέβηκε στο <a href="http://dimitris.glezos.com/box/presentations/mediacamp2/">http://dimitris.glezos.com/box/presentations/mediacamp2/</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>In startup spree</title>
		<link>http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/2009/03/05/in-startup-spree</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Δημήτρης Γλέζος</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just met @diegobz at the Athens airport. Yippie, a new hardcore coding cycle begins. Predicting loads of coding and brainstorming, some long days and generally great times.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just met <a href="http://twitter.com/diegobz">@diegobz</a> at the Athens airport. Yippie, a new hardcore coding cycle begins. Predicting loads of coding and brainstorming, some long days and generally <a href="http://www.indifex.com/">great times</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Indifex hiring</title>
		<link>http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/2009/02/12/indifex-hiring</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for some ace developers for Indifex. Know a good open-source code hacker? Point him towards our direction. http://www.indifex.com/jobs/]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looking for some ace developers for <a href="http://www.indifex.com/">Indifex</a>. Know a good open-source code hacker? Point him towards our direction. <a href="http://www.indifex.com/jobs/">http://www.indifex.com/jobs/</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Diego joining Indifex</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long-time Transifex hacker Diego Búrigo Zacarão will be joining Indifex.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Long-time Transifex hacker <a href="http://diegobz.net/2008/12/21/proud-to-be-part/">Diego Búrigo Zacarão</a> will be joining <a href="http://www.indifex.com">Indifex</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Chasing a dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was always enthusiastic about starting new projects, but it was only in the past couple of years that I got psyched to start my own company. Projects like software, communities, even politics sounded fun. While I had the entrepreneur bug for non-profit stuff, it was hidden for business. I&#8217;ve been fortunate to have really [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was always enthusiastic about starting new projects, but it was only in the past couple of years that I got psyched to start <a href="http://www.indifex.com/">my own company</a>.</p>

<p>Projects like <a href="http://transifex.org/">software</a>, <a href="http://fedoraproject.gr/">communities</a>, even <a href="http://epatents.hellug.gr/">politics</a> sounded fun. While I had the entrepreneur bug for non-profit stuff, it was hidden for business. I&#8217;ve been fortunate to have really good jobs involving interesting projects and some fine hackers and managers around me. When I was in need for a change, I&#8217;d happily freelance or take some time off enjoying building stuff in my house, painting or maybe rock climbing for a while.</p>

<h3>The bug</h3>

<div class="floatright imagelink"><div class="wpg2tag-image"><a href="http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/wpg2-2?g2_itemId=7062" title="00069b"><img src="http://dimitris.glezos.com/photos/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=7063&amp;g2_serialNumber=2" width="167" height="250" id="IFid4" class="ImageFrame_bleh" alt="00069b"/></a></div></div>

<p>For the past months I&#8217;ve been spending quite some time on <a href="http://transifex.org/">Transifex</a>. It started as a hack to integrate Fedora&#8217;s versioning systems, then we turned it into a translation submission web service, and translators started using it as a compliment to their workflow. You know you&#8217;re doing something useful when smart guys like Mozilla&#8217;s <a href="http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=298">Chris Blizzard</a> and rock-star software projects like the <a href="http://www.packagekit.org/">default packaging frontend</a> and <a href="http://pulseaudio.org/">sound server</a> for Linux distros find it ultra-useful.</p>

<p>You don&#8217;t often get the chance to change a <em>core bit</em> in an established technology like open source software localization. But when you actually do get the chance, it&#8217;s amazing how many paths open up. Hackers from GNOME and Debian and OLPC and Maemo and Wikipedia did not only like the idea behind upstream-friendly translation submissions, but they started thinking how it could fit into their infrastructure and workflow and how to extend it with new functionality. Folks around the world generously invited us to conferences to talk about our technology and plans, and guys from open source media like the popular <acronym title="Linux Weekly News">LWN</acronym> published <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/256144/">interviews</a> with us. Discussions with friends of the entrepreneur breed often went &#8220;wow&#8221; with the potential of the technology and were impressed that Tx was past the prototype stage and already into production.</p>

<h3>The turning point</h3>

<blockquote>It&#8217;s a win-win situation. I&#8217;ve been very impressed with Transifex so far, it makes translations pretty trivial.</blockquote>

<div class="cite"><cite>Richard Hughes, PackageKit maintainer</cite></div>

<p>At some point, it became clear that we had the chance to make a big difference to a lot of people with Transifex. Translations are hard, and I&#8217;d bet anything that we can make them easier. Or, for a more modest approach, &#8220;make them suck less&#8221;.</p>

<div class="imagelink floatright"><div class="wpg2tag-image"><a href="http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/wpg2-2?g2_itemId=7056" title="00077"><img src="http://dimitris.glezos.com/photos/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=7057&amp;g2_serialNumber=2" width="300" height="199" id="IFid5" class="ImageFrame_bleh" alt="00077"/></a></div></div>

<p>For a long time the following question was spinning in my mind: &#8220;How can we build an <strong>open translation platform</strong> for software?&#8221; Starting from the assumption that translators are not tied into a specific project but are shared across them, how would the ultimate translation platform look like? I&#8217;d discuss it with people in conferences and startup meetings, drawing endless sketches of the architecture. We&#8217;d even talk it over in interviews with Google and Red Hat.</p>

<p>The goal is to build an efficient platform where producers of software, documents or web services can reach out to established localization communities to receive high-quality translations, which are then stored directly on the source repository of the product.</p>

<p>By far the best way to know if your idea is going to work is to try it out and see. Get a group of code hackers together and give it a try.  And what better way to experiment this than <em>creating a startup</em> and hack your way through the challenges?</p>

<h3>The project and the startup</h3>

<p><strong><a href="http://transifex.net/">Transifex.net</a></strong> is the materialization of our vision. We&#8217;re developing a hosted version of Transifex, a common place where content providers can get their resources localized and translators can get together and find the tools they need to receive and submit back translatable content.  To get there, we&#8217;ve re-written Transifex <em>from scratch</em> in the past months. We&#8217;ve re-engineering most of the concepts in it with one <span class="pullquote">goal:  create a solid base to accommodate the needs of most software projects</span>.</p>

<p>Transifex will remain open source and continue being openly developed by our community at <a href="http://transifex.org/">transifex.org</a>. If you&#8217;re in doubt about the open source development model, take a look at <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/01/act-two/">how great WordPress is doing</a>.</p>

<p>Transifex.net is what WordPress.com is for WordPress. It&#8217;s a hosted version providing a hassle-free, social-enabled, batteries-included service. The open source version is still available for anyone wanting to host his own instance and we&#8217;re here to help him support it if needed.</p>

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<p><strong><a href="http://www.indifex.com/">Indifex</a></strong> is the company we founded to make this vision a reality.  Indifex&#8217;s name, like Transifex, origins from latin and refers to something like <em>&#8216;information craftsmen&#8217;</em> &#8212; it&#8217;s catchy and we dig it. And besides, we had to give it a name. =)</p>

<p>We&#8217;re a handful of passionate coders and open source geeks. We get high by fixing stuff and our office is lit up by technology flamewars almost every day. If you&#8217;re into these kind of kinky stuff too (modern web app frameworks, versioning systems, extreme programming, fast-paced work, pizza-only diet), take a look at the <a href="http://www.indifex.com/jobs/">job openings</a> we&#8217;ve got.</p>

<p>Indifex has received a fair amount of seed money to get us up and going for a while. If you&#8217;re into early-stage investments and would like to help us change the world, drop me an email at <em>glezos@indifex.com</em>.</p>

<h3>Our roadmap</h3>

<p>So what are we planning for the next months?</p>

<p>We&#8217;re currently focusing on Transifex&#8217;s features which are most useful for translators. Soon we&#8217;ll roll out transifex.net in private beta to a few folks, in order to receive valuable feedback from the people who will likely make an extensive use of the service. At this time we&#8217;ll focus on bug squashing and product stabilization.</p>

<p>We&#8217;ll then gradually give out more invitations, re-iterating the process until we have something ready for public availability. Following the &#8220;release early, release often&#8221;, we hope to get there sooner than later.</p>

<p>That&#8217;s it from me. Now you can go and <a href="http://transifex.net/">subscribe to our beta program</a>, follow us on our <a href="http://blog.transifex.net/">blog</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/transifex">Twitter</a>, or take a look at the <a href="http://www.indifex.com/jobs/">job openings</a> we have.</p>

<p>Wrapping up with a quote from one of the first folks who believed in the dream.</p>

<blockquote>Because of how well Transifex is integrated as a technical and social solution, it has the chance to start a mini revolution in translation of libre/free and open source software.</blockquote>

<div class="cite"><cite>Karsten Wade, Fedora Documentation Project</cite></div>]]></content:encoded>
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