El dt 05 de 10 de 2010 a les 14:26 +0200, en/na Milo Casagrande va
escriure:
Hi David,
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 20:06, David Planella david.plane...@ubuntu.com
wrote:
El dv 17 de 09 de 2010 a les 12:06 +0200, en/na Milo Casagrande va
Maybe, as a short-term goal, I was thinking about reaching out
translator teams, and ask them if they have story to share about how,
a translated version of Ubuntu, has helped people/companies/schools in
a particular way, something that a non-translated version couldn't
have achieved, and share their story on the Fridge, pointing out how
important is the translators work.
I really like this idea, I think it would be good to start a coordinated
effort to publish stories for each translation team. I'm planning to
have a UDS session on this.
Good, looking forward to attend that session!
We should probably try to have more
translators on the hall-of-fame,
We haven't updated the Hall Of Fame for a while, so the status of the
HoF is right now on hold, unless someone finds the time to step up and
help maintaining it. That's the reason why we haven't been adding any
rockstar contributors (be it in translation or in any area).
Hmmm... maybe we need to ask the community to help out with that:
having a small team of dedicated people that can maintain the HoF.
Will it be possible to open the maintainance of the HoF also to
community members?
I think what the HoF needs is a bit of rework to make it easier for
community contributions, but Daniel Holbach will know more, and I'm sure
he'll appreciate some help. I'll forward your suggestion to him.
and start publishing more translators
interview.
We should be publishing the interviews monthly, but there seems to have
been some delay in the last one. It's been hectic lately with the
preparation of several OpenWeek, AppDeveloperWeek and such events, but
I'll try to see if we can unblock it and start publishing the next batch
of interviews.
I saw a new one on the Fridge yesterday, but again, like for the HoF,
maybe opening it up to other community members, maybe translators
members in this case, could help it a little bit.
Contributing to the coordination and publishing of the translation
interviews is already open to the community, and in fact
community-driven. Amber Graner has been doing a rocking job in
coordinating the interviews for all teams. It is simply that there has
been a bit of delay in publishing the last ones, but as you've noticed
we're back on track :)
If anyone else wants to help with that, that would be really awesome.
Simply contact me or Amber (akgraner on IRC on the
#ubuntu-community-team or #ubuntu-news channels,
akgraner(at)ubuntu(dot)com).
The interview questions and the schedule are here:
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AdKZelXU8Y2LZGNrcHRkYmhfMTA5ZmJ3dmp2ZnIhl=en
In fact, a really easy way to help is that if you are a team coordinator
to send me or her the interview responses already, without having to
wait for being contacted.
I would really like to see a community-driven web portal where
translator groups (but not only them) can get together, a sort-of
Language Portal like Microsoft has, but better and open-source:
http://www.microsoft.com/Language/en-US/Default.aspx
Despite all attempts to structure the contents on the Translations
namespace and to simplify the main page so that people can easily find
the info they need (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/), the wiki has
grown too big for being able to store all the content related to
translations and present it to new users in a way that is both easy to
use and attractive.
I've been discussing this with Jono, and also looking at the awesome
work my team mate Ahmed has been doing on a Cloud Portal, and I think it
is the time for a Translations Portal.
Is this something that is already public? Just to take a peek at it...
If not, doesn't matter! ;-)
It is not a secret, but it has not yet been moved to our servers. It
will be in a few days, and I expect there to be an announcement. I
prefer not to publish the URL for the temporary hosting, in order not to
spoil the surprise ;-)
The idea of the portal is to have a site on
http://translations.ubuntu.com that can serve to aggregate and showcase
the current content related to Ubuntu Translations with the main
purposes of:
* Inspiring and getting new contributors excited about
translations
* Be used as a spring board for anyone to easily get started to
translating Ubuntu
That is something which I would also like to focus on this cycle, and I
would encourage anyone to give a hand to make the Ubuntu translations
experience even more awesome.
I find the suggestion of hosting a glossary and a discussion forum good
ideas, but that is something that will require some development or
infrastructure work. For the first phase, I'd like to focus
