1 [[!meta title="Tails report for November, 2019"]]
2 [[!meta date="Tue, 14 Dec 2019 12:34:56 +0000"]]
3 [[!pagetemplate template="news.tmpl"]]
7 Documentation and website
8 =========================
10 - We improved our explanation of the [[enhanced
11 privacy|doc/anonymous_internet/thunderbird#torbirdy]] of *Thunderbird* in
12 Tails. ([[!tails_ticket 17270]])
14 - We instructed people facing [[recurring errors when
15 upgrading|doc/upgrade/error/check]] to do a manual upgrade.
16 ([[!tails_ticket 12492]])
18 - We improved the layout of the [[manual upgrade
19 documentation|doc/upgrade/#manual]]. ([[!tails_ticket 12492]])
24 - We finished processing the feedback on our [[mission and
25 values|contribute/mission]]. ([[!tails_ticket 16540]])
27 Our work on this document was explained in [Open source & branding – a
28 contradiction?](https://simplysecure.org/blog/branding-tails), by Simply
31 - Update *Etcher* to 1.5.61 to fix installing from macOS Catalina. ([[!tails_ticket 17185]])
33 Hot topics on our help desk
34 ===========================
36 1. Multiple users reported having trouble [[!tails_ticket 17183 desc="importing keys in Seahorse"]].
38 1. We also had some reports about [[!tails_ticket 17184 desc="issues
39 with Nvidia"]] [[!tails_ticket 17155 desc="graphics cards"]].
41 1. macOS users were affected by a [[!tails_ticket 17185 desc="bug in
47 - We finished updating the list of members in our [[signing key
48 revocation mechanism|doc/about/openpgp_keys/signing_key_revocation]]. ([[!tails_ticket 16665]])
50 We lost 5 members and added 8 new members. So the resiliency of the
51 scheme was increased overall. Thanks again to all the new members :)
56 - Received a very generous donation of 6 bitcoins from
59 - We blogged about [[our plans for 2020|news/plans_for_2020]].
61 - Our fundraising campaign is doing pretty well.
63 Compared to the same period in 2017 and 2018 (first 41 days):
68 Amount 54 925 € 54 873 € 28 854 € 48 710 € 69%
69 Count 1124 717 1182 1084 -16%
71 Final amount 76 055 € 101 644 € 74 480 €
74 We are doing pretty good in terms of both amount and number of donations
75 thought we're not set any record in either metrics.
77 This is not due to the lack of counter this year because the first 2 weeks of
78 this year were much worse than last year (when they was no counter yet) and
79 weeks 3-5 were better (when we had a counter already).
81 We cannot really explain these 16% less donations but it's not a big deal
90 - [Damaris Mendoza](https://twitter.com/damriv) presented Tails to 20
91 digital security trainers at the Encuentro Centroamericano de
92 Seguridad Digital in Guatemala City.
97 - Technical writers sent a proposal to improve and simplify the terminology
100 <https://lists.autistici.org/message/20191108.153500.fbbf3592.en.html>
102 - We are discussing what kind of password strength meter we should have in the
103 Persistence creation assistant. ([[!tails_ticket 7002]])
105 - We started discussion whether we should say "*freedom fighters*" or "*human-rights
106 defenders*" in our mission and values:
108 <https://lists.autistici.org/message/20191126.113700.b936d424.en.html>
115 - fr: 89% (5302) strings translated, 2% strings fuzzy
116 - es: 52% (3120) strings translated, 4% strings fuzzy
117 - de: 36% (2139) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy
118 - it: 31% (1854) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy
119 - fa: 28% (1690) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy
120 - pt: 22% (1361) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy
122 ## [[Core pages of the website|contribute/l10n_tricks/core_po_files.txt]]
124 - fr: 93% (1697) strings translated, 4% strings fuzzy
125 - es: 89% (1619) strings translated, 3% strings fuzzy
126 - de: 64% (1169) strings translated, 16% strings fuzzy
127 - it: 60% (1095) strings translated, 18% strings fuzzy
128 - pt: 43% (792) strings translated, 14% strings fuzzy
129 - fa: 32% (596) strings translated, 14% strings fuzzy
134 * Tails has been started more than 767 400 times this month. This makes
135 25 580 boots a day on average.
137 [[How do we know this?|support/faq#boot-statistics]]