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.
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