jdd writes:

guillaume.gardet@free.fr wrote:

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If you're interested, please mail on the opensuse-translation mailing list which team you like to create - or join!

Hi !

I would like to join the French team. Is it possible ?

of course, it is :-!!

first join the french list

http://fr.opensuse.org/Communiquer

then begin to work on the wiki.

He could help with the software as well, JDD, is there already interest - or will you ask on the french list? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform/openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

jdd writes:

Andreas Jaeger wrote:

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He could help with the software as well,

of course

JDD, is there already interest

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- or will you ask on the french list?

if you need help, I can ask. It seemed to me that there is little to do with software translation (that is: openSUSE/Yast), most of the translation is already done and good :-))

but of course if you need help, ask :-))

We do need help with *all* languages. French is currently at 91% for yast and 85% for lcn: http://i18n.opensuse.org/stats/trunk/fr/index.php So, the remaining bits should get translated. It's a really good base to start from - but it needs help. That's why I did the call for Translations, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform/openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

guillaume.gardet@free.fr writes:

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If you're interested, please mail on the opensuse-translation mailing list which team you like to create - or join!

I would like to join the French team. Is it possible ?

Thanks for volunteering--please, send me your Novell iChain account name. For more info, see http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/SUSE_Linux_Localization , you just ask here on the ML. -- Karl Eichwalder R&D / Documentation SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-translation+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-translation+help@opensuse.org

Den Saturday 28 July 2007 21:40:11 skrev Martin Schlander:

The best thing I can come up with so far, is to put some information in the package description for yast-trans-xx. It would probably be too much maintenance to have individual descriptions for each language, but perhaps we could put in the package description something generic, like: "Translated by openSUSE community members" and with references to the translation mailinglist and the translation portal on the wiki, where there are also contact information for most teams. Currently there is no package description at all, only a summary.

Also a reference to the irc-channel in the package description would be cool. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-translation+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-translation+help@opensuse.org

Den Sunday 29 July 2007 08:08:00 skrev Andreas Jaeger:

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perhaps we could put in the package description something generic, like: "Translated by openSUSE community members" and with references to the translation mailinglist and the translation portal on the wiki, where there are also contact information for most teams. Currently there is no package description at all, only a summary.

we could change *once* each individual package description. So, if you send us something for Danish, we'll add it. Karl, what do you think is the best way?

How about if writing the package description became a string, for example in susetranslations.xx.po - or maybe even it's own 1 string po in /yast/ so anyone would easily find it. Then each team could write their own and it would (hopefully) always be up to date. But maybe it would be too much work integrating it into 55+ packages and keeping them updated for every release. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-translation+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-translation+help@opensuse.org

Den Tuesday 31 July 2007 10:34:44 skrev Anne Mc Cluskey:

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I'm quite certain that amateur SUSE users and lovers can create higher quality translations than the professional "translation monkeys".

I presume from this that you have found some issues in the current translations. If so, can you contact me with examples please? We ant to ensure these are rectified.

I didn't find grave mistakes directly, but the occurence of typos and small errors was higher than for our team from what I could tell by quickly browsing through some of the SP1 translations we were offered to have integrated. Of course I might be biased and I couldn't tell if those errors were actually introduced by the translators or the "memory". What bothered me most was that I found no signs of coordination and "standardization". In the Danish team we have defined fixed translations for the most commonly used words to ensure consistency, so "Cancel" is not translated in different ways in each dialog for example. In the novell language translations I looked at, I saw no signs of such an effort - and there certainly was no respect for the standards we've defined in our team wiki-page - which would have been the smart thing to do - since the translations build upon our 10.2 translations I assume. Again "memory" might play a part in it, don't want to point fingers at people, but it seems likely that paid translators will be less diligent than fanboys who use SUSE themselves, all day everyday and love every minute of it and are in contact with the community etc. Of course I know little of the background of these people - at least it seemed from the file headers that they were using KBabel - which is a little reassuring. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-translation+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-translation+help@opensuse.org

Stanciu-Lixandru Alec writes:

On Friday 27 July 2007 19:33:17 Andreas Jaeger wrote:

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There have been several requests from community members on the mailing lists to join language teams for the languages Brazilian Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese. We have now decided to open up the translation process completely and not put any restrictions on it. Therefore I invite you to create language teams for those eight languages mentioned above, join one of the existing teams or start a new language team for a language we currently do not support. If you're interested, please mail on the opensuse-translation mailing list which team you like to create - or join!

Maybe now someone will help me with the Romanian translation. As far as I know I am the only one in the team (and I'm running out of time :()

Are there other languages that need help? We could make a general call for translators on the opensuse-announce mailing list naming those languages that would benefit most. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126