[Ankur-core] Prize money for Ubuntu Translations

2006-04-09 Thread Ershad Shafi Chowdhury
Dear All, After discussion with Jamil, we have decided to encourage translators by offering cash incentives. We propose making it work this way : 1. For every new 15,000 strings translated (total from all translators), we will look for the best translator 2. Taka 5,000 will be awarded to the

Re: [Ankur-core] Prize money for Ubuntu Translations

2006-04-11 Thread Ershad Shafi Chowdhury
Omi Azad wrote: Ubuntu is a set of applications and FireFox is one of them. I think I may finalize FF 1.5 translation in a day or two. So how my i'm getting as Noboborsho Upohaar :) PS. Funds are coming from my personal account. Poket khali hoye jabe Iru Bhai. Abar Chinta koren... Cause i

Re: [Ankur-core] Prize money for Ubuntu Translations

2006-04-12 Thread Ershad Shafi Chowdhury
Hi all! To be honest, I was hoping to get more feedback on what the translators want, e.g. a $50 gift certificate on Amazon.com or how the strings monitoring issue would be decided. But it seems that the core group agrees to our original idea.   Could we post the following or similar (preferably w

Re: [Ankur-core] Prize money for Ubuntu Translations

2006-04-13 Thread Ershad Shafi Chowdhury
I am not entirely opposed to the idea, i think its a very good idea. I would need to know the cost of the keyboard and I will link the keyboard to the number of strings translated .. i.e., translate 500 strings and get a free keyboard or something like that. Omi Azad wrote: Sajed Chowdhury