Latest General News:
May 2, 2008 - I was interviewed by
Computerworld Australia:
"An open
palette: Tux Paint's Bill Kendrick."
April 25, 2008 - Tux Paint
was mentioned
by name (and link) on the front page of
Slashdot today, yikes!
Also, it just received another
glowing review
from Softpedia!
April 21, 2008 - In the end,
Tux4Kids (which includes
Tux Paint received 133 student
applications (from 90 students) in this year's
Google Summer of Code
program. The accepted student proposals have been
announced, and you can now see the
10 applications
we ended up choosing. It was a very difficult and emotional
process. (Think about it: we had to disappoint 80 people today!)
I wish we had at least twice as many mentors available, since
there were so many excellent proposals that we ended up having to decline.
March 30, 2008 - Tux4Kids has received nearly 55
applications from almost 40 students. And Google is considering
extending the application deadline, due to many students being
away on Spring break. It's going to be tough deciding among
all these, espcially since many of them are very thorough
(full proposals with timelines, for example).
March 17, 2008 -
Tux4Kids has been
accepted as a mentoring organization in this year's
Google Summer of Code
program!
March 15, 2008 - The Linux Users'
Group of Davis (which I co-founded and continue to help run) will be
exhibiting at a county-wide
child
development conference in Davis next month. I'll be there plugging
Tux Paint, of course.
There's a ton more open source software for education out there,
so it'll be a ton of fun helping people learn about it. Wish us luck!
March 11, 2008 - I've just submitted the
Tux4Kids project
(includes Tux Paint,
TuxMath and TuxTyping) to be a "Mentoring Organization" in
the Google Summer of Code
2008 program. Wish us luck!
February 16, 2008 - Back in November, I did an e-mail interview
with Community Kids magazine
in Vacaville, Calif. The article's sadly no longer available on their
website, but I found it on Google's cache, and
posted a copy
on the Tux Paint website.
January 28, 2008 - I was interviewed on
This Week in Tech's
"Jumping Monkeys" netcast.
You can hear me starting at around 17 minutes of
episode 31.
December 31, 2007 - The "Top Chef" mobile game that I worked on
is discussed
by the Baltimore Sun.
December 29, 2007 - Tux Paint's available on the
One Laptop per Child "XO-1"
(aka "$100 Laptop").
December 5, 2007 - Tux Paint was mentioned (sadly, only as an
alternative to the commercial "Kid Pix") in The Unoffical Apple Weblog's
Buyers Guide: Parents' picks for Apple-loving kids. Maybe
one year Tux Paint will be their pick. :^)
December 5, 2007 - Top
Chef is now available for download on AT&T and T-Mobile!
Also, LimeLife has been listed in the
2007
Red Herring Global 100 (that is, they've chosen us as one of the top 100
startup companies in the world)!
Update: And Top Chef is listed on
Bravo TV's
website.
November 28, 2007 - So long, and thanks for all the bickering.
After 5 and a half years, and too many political-infighting threads to count,
I've decided to take myself off of SVLUG's
mailing list. I wish them luck in figuring themselves out.
November 28, 2007 - Chicago Tribune blog mentions
the game I've been working on at LimeLife: Top Chef:
The Mobile Game (not yet mentioned on Bravo's site, but soon!)
November 26, 2007 - Tux Paint is currently ranked #118 (out of 163,000+
projects) at SourceForge.net, in terms of
all-time downloads. Update: And it's #55 in this week's top 100
downloads!
November 22, 2007 - Bit by flu, but wrangled volunteers in Canada and
the UK to bring the world Tux Paint
version 0.9.18.
November 12, 2007 - Facebook is noisy.
November 1, 2007 - I'll be
speaking at PenLUG in December.
October 29, 2007 - Tux Paint was
recently
mentioned on a cool site I found called
Parent Hacks.
October 25, 2007 - The Tux Paint announcement mailing list
just broke 10,000 subscribers!
October 24, 2007 - I've uploaded another big lot of
baby photos from the last two
months or so...
October 22, 2007 - I'm preparing to release the next
Tux Paint, once the
Windows & Mac OS X guys are ready. In the meantime, I've
posted a pre-release, as source-code:
0.9.18rc1.
October 17, 2007 - LUGOD was
mentioned on the front page of UC Davis's California Aggie newspaper today.
September 30, 2007 - After not really doing anything with it for
a very long time, I decided to release an alpha of
Pop Star, a little puzzle game. Source code only,
right now. No scoring, options or end-of-game, yet. Interested in updating
the art for me?
Contact me!
September 29, 2007 - A girl on YouTube is making
Sailor Moon fan animations using Tux Paint —
check it out.
September 28, 2007 - Melissa and William flew up to visit Melissa's
parents in Washington. Apparently, William was, to quote a text message,
a "v. good boy" on the flight, and giggled during takeoff! Sweet.
(Older General news)
- Mar. 10, 2008 - "Comparison"
- Taken January 19th:
Taken yesterday:
Cool, huh?
- Mar. 03, 2008 - "Will this post jinx it?"
- A few nights ago, to help keep William hydrated as he gets over the stomach flu we were all struck with, we placed a bottle of water next to him so he’d have something to drink when he woke up in the middle of the night.
Except for 5am last night (when it became apparent he [...]
- Feb. 19, 2008 - "A Few More Words"
-
Clap - Can’t believe I forgot this one, it was one of the first he seemed to understand consistently.
High-five - Another self-explanatory one.
Peek-a-boo - If you get him in the right mood (esp. if he’s got some cloth to cover his face with), he’ll try to hide at least one eye for a few seconds. [...]
- Feb. 17, 2008 - "Words"
- I’ve tried to come up with a list of words that William obviously understands. He still doesn’t say any “real” words back, though does he try to say “kitty” and “banana”.
hug (usually hugs a stuffed animal, sometimes hugs people :) )
kitty (usually looks for a cat)
put it away / close it (SOMEtimes puts things [...]
- May. 03, 2008 - "Bill Kendrick interviewed by ComputerWorld"
- Bill Kendrick is interviewed by Computerworld Australia. Learn more...
- Apr. 26, 2008 - "Tux Paint receives 5-stars from Softpedia again"
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Tux Paint was once again given a
5-star
"Editor's Pick" review from
Softpedia. Learn more...
- Apr. 22, 2008 - "Vectoroids for UIQ-based phones"
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Our asteroid-shooting game has been ported to handsets running the
Symbian/UIQ system. Learn more...
- Mar. 17, 2008 - "Tux4Kids to participate in this year's Google Summer of Code"
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The Tux4Kids
organization, which includes our
Tux Paint project,
TuxMath (originally developed by NBS), and TuxTyping, applied to
be a mentoring organization in this year's GSoC program, and
has been
accepted! Learn more...
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