On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Vũ Đỗ Quỳnh <vu.do.qu...@auf.org> wrote: > > I transfer to whom might be interested the latest of an exchange between > Clytie Siddal, Christian Perrier and Arne Goetje. >
It's interesting to read... >> For Debian, I am the only ongoing Vietnamese translator (although I'd >> welcome any other participants!). I think Ubuntu was chosen by MOST >> as a priority because it was seen as more user-friendly, and it had >> Launchpad as a one-stop translation portal. My personal opinion is >> that Ubuntu benefits from Debian's quality control, and that >> Launchpad has issues with quality and access (e.g. compared to >> Pootle), but that's not an official statement. ;) ... or because it's became more popular. >> I've always wanted to encourage more Vietnamese translators to >> contribute to Debian. I'm not sure why they don't: I think there is a >> perception that Debian is too difficult, that there are too many >> things to learn, and also that they might be treading on my toes. Our >> culture is very respectful of elders, so even though I generally >> invite people to take part, they may be worried about offending me in >> some way. I wouldn't be the slightest bit offended, and would in fact >> be delighted if others wanted to participate. :) While I'm supporting the translation of all Linux distros, I think the current market share in VN is small enough to focus on a few distros. It would be great if we have a statistics about that, but Ubuntu is the most popular here. Ubuntu was not easy to use, but it has a company behind, and now it's has an attractive UI and easy tools. I don't know there are how many Debian users (and Debian women, yeah!) in VN, but its number is far behind Ubuntu (with ubuntu-vn.org becomes a little more popular now). A translator will think about that before he participates. That said, I don't discourage Debian users to translate Debian ;-) It's a great pleasure to see the daily OS in native language. I just try to reply to Clytie's question. I hope we'll find a few enthusiastic Debian users in the coming mini Debconf. -- Nguyễn Hải Nam _______________________________________________ POST RULES : http://wiki.hanoilug.org/hanoilug:mailing_list_guidelines _______________________________________________ HanoiLUG mailing lists: http://lists.hanoilug.org/ HanoiLUG wiki: http://wiki.hanoilug.org/ HanoiLUG blog: http://blog.hanoilug.org/
