2011/1/25 Satoru Matsumoto :

Hello mates,

as I mentioned in another post, I want to share and discuss yet another problems which we, openSUSE Weekly News (OWN) team have right now - status of translations and how we can attract potential contributors (both editors and translators), how we can involve them and collaboration with News (news.o.o) team.

= About translations =

Many of you may know, at its peak, we had 13 translations of OWN. But now, we have only 2 translations. So, I want to ask those who once translated OWN but don't now (if they are still reading this list).

* Why couldn't  you continue translating OWN? (This is not meant to  blame on you, but to find out what were the blocks for you.)

# I'd like to explain why we Japanese team (and why only Japanese team)  could continue translating over 2 years later in another post. ;-)

# Maybe when you do that I can also tell how OWN help the openSUSE Greek community to grow quickly and how we attracted contributors with it...

* How should be the translation? Should it be  pure translation of  original en OWN? Or, can it be independent, so that  each local OWN  team can modify as needed?

 - I'd prefer the latter. But in that case:

 -- It's not easy for each local team to edit  original edition from     scratch. An essential edition which can be used as the base of     each $LANG edition is absolutely needed.

You are 100% right here, I believe that no local team can do that,at least not with so many things included and in weekly basis,I am telling you that because it crossed my mind once...

 -- Why Sascha (German), Gertjan (Dutch), Thomas  Hofstätter     (Austrian), Thomas Schraitle (German) and me (Japanese)  should     edit *English* edition? Why won't other native English speakers     help much more?

= How can we attract potential contributors more? =

The questions here are:

* What makes the hurdle higher?

The every week task is really tiring, in the Greek Translation team I deal with it either by not giving everyone(especially those who have limited time) a translation every week or by giving them sometimes more and sometimes less work, though I can't really tell you how that can work in a global team.

* How we can make our work much more fun?

I'd like to hear your opinions and thoughs, in particular if you have ever interested in being a part of OWN team, but hesitated to do so.

= How can Weekly News team and News Team collaborate with each other? =

* Should the 2 teams be integrated?

Yes I think this would be the wise thing to do since you are making common jobs sometimes

* Can we create language specific news.o.o sub domains or directories  such as de.news.opensuse.org or news.opensuse.org/ja , where we can  publish translated or original news and announcements in our native  languages?

The latter idea is what I have in my mind recently. If that will be realized, we can translate *important* announcemants and publish them on those $LANG news.o.o much more frequently. Translators who don't have enough time to translate whole OWN *every week* may be able to translate such important announcements as needed. I believe that'll make the hurdle lower, and, "it's better than nothing." ;-)

How do you think? That is a good idea and I think that another good idea would be to tell our ambassadors to do that for their native language as a part of

I think that this might be too much at the moment due to lack of contributors in the localize area and the teams who already translate OWN do that anyway,so... promoting openSUSE in their area. I would like to hear Chuck's Carlo's and Manu's opinion in that :-)

Best,

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