Archive for July, 2008

LeMill translations editable with a web browser

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

We’ve set up a Launchpad project for LeMill and are using its translation service. This means that anyone can contribute translations to LeMill easily by just using their web browser. No more need to specific PO translators or cryptic text files.

So you are all welcome to improve the existing translations – if something seems a bit odd in the user interface, you can change it and we’ll include it in the next release. Also, you can start a new translation for any language you can speak and write, no need to ask for our permission. We’ll include any relatively complete translation into the next release.

LeMill 2.4, new funding and new blog

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

We have a few good news today. After a little break we have released a new version again. With this release we have worked a lot with the back-end of LeMill. Now things should work faster as they did before.

The most important new feature is added to the exercise template. Now it is possible to see if your answers were correct immediately after submitting the exercise. In addition to web-based feedback you can also get e-mail with your results.

We have also improved the reviewer role. Reviewer is a user who has some additional rights. Reviewers ca convert resources from one section to another. For example if some non-method is published in the Methods section it can be safely converted to a web page in the Content section. Reviewers can also delete resources to clean up LeMill from test content. We are planning to give reviewer rights to some of our most active users. If you are interested to become a reviewer you can contact us through the feedback form.

This is the first release that is completed with our new funding. After the end of CALIBRATE project in March 2008 we were able to receive support from Tiger Leap Foundation in Estonia. With this funding we are planning to have four major releases this year.

The third good news is that we have a blog now. I copied old posts from our personal blogs and LeMill development group to this blog, so you have all the history and future here. Have a nice summer and keep following our blog!