Re: [Tuxpaint-users] Creating a new CDROM!

[Gloria T. W. <glo...@be...>]

Yea, Bill! I'll finally be able to send Tux to my grandchildren whose  
parents aren't willing to download it!
Promise you'll have versions for both Macs and PCs?
Gloria;)

On Jul 18, 2009, at 12:33 AM, Bill Kendrick wrote:

>
> It's been a number of years since I released a CDROM version of Tux  
> Paint.
> (The last version available was 0.9.16, from October 2006.)
> I'm finally creating a new one!
>
> I'm once again doing this via CafePress.  I send them a master disc,
> and they use it to create on-demand duplicates when anyone purchases a
> copy.  Along with being able to direct visitors of the Tux Paint
> website to CafePress to buy a disc, this also gets Tux Paint in the
> CafePress 'marketplace,' where folks who might not have heard about
> Tux Paint can find it.
>
> Why would someone buy a disc?  A few reasons I can think of: to send a
> couple of dollars my way;  to have a physical copy of the software  
> they
> can keep safe (if they need to reinstall it);  as an easier way to
> install Tux Paint on numerous computers (like a school lab), or on
> computers that don't have direct internet access (like a child's
> computer at home in their bedroom);  to give as a gift (birthday/ 
> etc.).
>
> The disc I've burned, and will soon be mailing to CafePress, includes
> the latest version of Tux Paint (0.9.21, from July 2009) for
> Windows XP/2000/Vista/7, Mac OS X 10.5+, all versions of
> RedHat, Fedora CORE and Fedora Linux that we support, and the source.
> (It has some basic HTML files for easier navigation.)
>
> I'll send another note once the disc is available at CafePress
> (and, of course, update the tuxpaint.org website).
>
>
> PS - Perhaps in the future, I can do this collaboratively with the
> folks who help me translate Tux Paint.  That way, I can generate
> localized versions of the HTML files that users who don't speak
> (or don't prefer) English can understand the disc more readily.
> Perhaps some PHP pages which are then 'executed' one time for each
> locale, to generate sets of HTML files.  What do folks think?
>
> -- 
> -bill!
> Sent from my computer
>
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