ARTICLE

Quick Ubuntu Accomplishments Update

by | Wed 4 Apr 2012

It has been a few weeks since I last posted an update about the [Ubuntu Accomplishments](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments) project. As such I wanted to take a few moments to update you lovely people with some of the progress being made in the project and show off some juicy screenshots too.

Let’s take a look at the eye-candy first and then I will get to the big changes. Firstly, I created a nicer looking icon for the GUI and a desktop file ready for when we package:

Next, *Rafal Cieslak* is a new contributor who has been doing some fantastic work. Rafal added support so that you can start the GUI without having to run the daemon first:

Rafal also added support so that you can click on accomplished trophies and some information is displayed about them:

Next up, inspired by the awesome [Hello Unity](https://mhall119.com/2012/03/hello-unity/) by our very own *Michael Hall*, I added Launcher support for the GUI. Now when a new trophy is awarded to you the Launcher icon shakes to get your attention and displays the number of freshly awarded trophies to you:

Our final screenshot is thanks to the great work of *Alessandro Losavio* and the wonderful Italian Ubuntu community. Alessandro has created a collection of Italian accomplishments, complete with Italian documentation and custom icons. You can see this below:

Thanks also to *Simon Watson* for making the My Trophies and Opportunities buttons depress; this makes it much easier to know which view you are looking at.

There has also been a number of large structural changes going on as the project is maturing. Firstly, the backend service is now a full `twistd` application. This means it runs as a full daemon, starts and shuts down properly, and is properly logging events. This piece was an important part of getting the back-end service ready so we can deploy it on systems for testing. Thanks to *Duncan McGreggor* for his wonderful work in helping to make this happen.

Another important milestone, and one that I completed tonight, was adding support for multiple languages in accomplishment sets. The Ubuntu Accomplishments system can support accomplishments from any online or offline community or project and I wanted to ensure that the documentation that explains how an accomplishment can be completed is available in your own language. This is important not only to support different languages but to also be able to provide language and country specific resources (e.g. websites and IRC support channels). This is now in there and working pretty well. I will posting more in a few days to encourage our translations community to get involved and translate the accomplishments sets.

Following on from multiple language support inside the system itself, there has been a lot of activity going in the *Ubuntu Accomplishments Web Editor* project. The Web Editor project is designed to make it easy for our community to contribute documentation for available accomplishments, and part of this goal is to also enable translations via the web editor. This will feed into the multiple language support that I added tonight. Thanks to *Janos Gyerik* for driving this discussion forward and *Bruno Girin* for bringing his expertise to the fold too. We definitely need Django developers to help with this project, so if you are interested, please [join the mailing list](https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-accomplishments-contributors) and help. 🙂

Finally, I want to offer my thanks to *Matt Fischer* for stepping up to help with packaging Ubuntu Accomplishments. He has already created a Daily PPA for the Ubuntu Community Accomplishments set, and Matt is now working to get the core system packaged too so that you folks can play with it, test it, participate, and file bugs.

**Interested in joining the team and helping? We need all kinds of help…documentation writers, programmers, translators, web developers, and testers! To get involved [join the mailing list and introduce yourself](https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-accomplishments-contributors), join `#ubuntu-accomplishments` on Freenode IRC, and be sure to see the [Wiki Homepage](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments). Thanks!**.

An invitation-only accelerator that develops industry-leading community engagement and growth via personalized training, coaching, and accountability...all tailored to your company's needs.

Want to read some more?

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays

Just a quick note to wish all of you a happy, restful, and peaceful holidays, however and whoever you spend it with. Take care, folks, and I look forward to seeing you in 2015!

The Impact of One Person

The Impact of One Person

I am 35 years old and *people* never cease to surprise me. My trip home from Los Angeles today was a good example of this. It was a tortuous affair that should have been a quick hop from LA to Oakland, popping on BArt, and then getting home for a cup of tea and an...

Feedback Requested: Great Examples of Community

Feedback Requested: Great Examples of Community

Folks, I need to ask for some help. Like many, I have some go-to examples of great communities. This includes Wikipedia, OpenStreetmap, Ubuntu, Debian, Linux, and others. Many of these are software related, many of them are Open Source. I would like to ask your...

Ubuntu Governance Reboot: Five Proposals

Ubuntu Governance Reboot: Five Proposals

Sorry, this is *long*, but hang in there. A little while back I wrote [a blog post](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2014/11/14/ubuntu-governance-reboot/) that seemed to inspire some people and ruffle the feathers of some others. It was designed as a...

Ubuntu Governance: Reboot?

Ubuntu Governance: Reboot?

For many years Ubuntu has had a comprehensive governance structure. At the top of the tree are the Community Council (community policy) and the Technical Board (technical policy). Below those boards are sub-councils such as the IRC, Forum, and LoCo councils, and...

Dealing With Disrespect: The Video

Dealing With Disrespect: The Video

A while back I wrote and released a free e-book called [Dealing With Disrespect](https://www.dealingwithdisrespect.com/). It is a book that provides a short, simple to read, free guide for handling personalized, mean-spirited, disrespectful, and in some cases,...