[Scribus] Scribus Team Releases 1.3.0 - LaLiberté

[PLinnell]

On Friday 15 July 2005 13:13, Maciej Hanski wrote:
> Christoph Sch?fer wrote:
> >> The Scribus Team is pleased to announce a technology preview of
> >> the next generation of Scribus - Open Source Desktop Publishing.
>
> Congratulations, Scribus Team!
>
> > One thing I'd like to suggest: It would be wonderful to have a
> > French name for *every* scribus release. Since French is probably
> > the most elegant language in the world, and elegance is more than
> > often a requirement in DTP, it seems not only logical to me, but
> > it would also make a difference compared to the common practice
> > of commercial companies.
>
> Maybe we could agree on considering the French release name a
> tribute to those many frankophone contributors (Martin, Louis,
> Jean, etc,) who've supported Scribus in every imaginable way over
> the last years? The elegance of French (although it sounds very
> stimulating to me too :) is such a subjective thing, it might not
> be that obvious somewhere outside of Europe...
>
> I would vote for using different languages for each  Scribus
> release name to come, to stress the international approach of this
> project and sort of say thank you to developers and contributors in
> their language
>
> :) Something like "Die Freiheit" for 1.3.1, "Svoboda" for 1.3.2,
> : and so
>
> on in other languages would be really nice, don't you think?
>
> Just an idea
> Maciej
>
>

A good idea... Something we can be creative with the next release :)

The original idea came from Franz, who was thinking of Bastille Day in 
France. 

Cheers,

Peter