Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (168 mails)

[Luiz Fernando Ranghetti <elchevive68@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/10/20 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Kalman,
>
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Kálmán Kéménczy <kkemenczy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Is it possible to get the announcements 1-2 days before their release
> > to translate them?
>
> Which announcements? The meeting announcements or release announcements, 
> or...?
>
> Meeting announcements should be simple: I have a template I use for
> opensuse-project meetings that really all is replaced is the dates.
>
> Release announcements: The trick here is that some bits of the
> announcement are very last minute, such as "most annoying bugs" -- if
> those aren't up-to-date, we (I) get complaints pretty quickly. It's
> impossible to say what the bugs are going to be two or three days
> before the announcement goes out *unless* we hold the announcement for
> the following Monday.
>
> Jury is still out on whether that will become accepted practice.
>
> > I really like the way how Mozilla do. Their announcements release same
> > time on 10-30 different languages (regarding volunteers work). Without
> > synchronized release, the online press get the English versions and
> > the (mis)translate or cut them. If we have localized versions on the
> > same time they could use that one.
>
> It's a good way to do things. However, Mozilla tends to hold on to
> their releases a bit longer than we do before actually pushing them
> out.
>
> What we can do is have a template that doesn't change much and slot in
> the variables at the last minute, if there's interest in that.

Yes, there is interest ;-)

Regards,

Luiz
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