Hello everyone,
I've at last taken time to gather information on the current status of our proposals to pdf software developers to help them with translations (software interface as well as download pages). I would now like to publish this information (basically, how to contribute and who to contact) somewhere. I was thinking of a separate page on pdfreaders.org, with a link to it called "contribute" or "help us improve free software quality". I would then write to our translators@ and propose to people to give a hand on these translations, referring to said page, so that they can start easily.
What do you think?
Thanks, Nicolas
* Nicolas JEAN nicoulas@fsfe.org [2011-01-07 14:56:14 +0100]:
I've at last taken time to gather information on the current status of our proposals to pdf software developers to help them with translations (software interface as well as download pages). I would now like to publish this information (basically, how to contribute and who to contact) somewhere. I was thinking of a separate page on pdfreaders.org, with a link to it called "contribute" or "help us improve free software quality". I would then write to our translators@ and propose to people to give a hand on these translations, referring to said page, so that they can start easily.
I would also be fine to just start this on our FSFE Fellowship wiki. I think it is not necessary to translate it in so many languages and it is good if people participating can change content.
Regards, Matthias
On 01/10/2011 01:57 PM, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
- Nicolas JEAN nicoulas@fsfe.org [2011-01-07 14:56:14 +0100]:
I've at last taken time to gather information on the current status of our proposals to pdf software developers to help them with translations (software interface as well as download pages). I would now like to publish this information (basically, how to contribute and who to contact) somewhere. I was thinking of a separate page on pdfreaders.org, with a link to it called "contribute" or "help us improve free software quality". I would then write to our translators@ and propose to people to give a hand on these translations, referring to said page, so that they can start easily.
I would also be fine to just start this on our FSFE Fellowship wiki. I think it is not necessary to translate it in so many languages and it is good if people participating can change content.
I agree that it would be more easy to maintain on the wiki, but I also think it wouldn't get very much awareness. So far as I have understood this page, its aim is to show what translations are available, and this is an interesting idea to have alongside the page with which reader you can download I think... We could perhaps reconcile the two ideas with a link to the wiki from the pdfreaders.org index page ?
Regards
On 10/01/2011 14:57, Maelle Costa wrote:
On 01/10/2011 01:57 PM, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
- Nicolas JEAN nicoulas@fsfe.org [2011-01-07 14:56:14 +0100]:
I've at last taken time to gather information on the current status of our proposals to pdf software developers to help them with translations (software interface as well as download pages). I would now like to publish this information (basically, how to contribute and who to contact) somewhere. I was thinking of a separate page on pdfreaders.org, with a link to it called "contribute" or "help us improve free software quality". I would then write to our translators@ and propose to people to give a hand on these translations, referring to said page, so that they can start easily.
I would also be fine to just start this on our FSFE Fellowship wiki. I think it is not necessary to translate it in so many languages and it is good if people participating can change content.
I agree that it would be more easy to maintain on the wiki, but I also think it wouldn't get very much awareness. So far as I have understood this page, its aim is to show what translations are available, and this is an interesting idea to have alongside the page with which reader you can download I think... We could perhaps reconcile the two ideas with a link to the wiki from the pdfreaders.org index page ?
I'm good with the idea of a link pointing to the wiki. I was not actually thinking of putting the translation status on the wiki page, but the more I think of it, the more I think it's nice, although taking a bit of time. But as Matthias says, we can hope that people participating will care about updating it, too.
I hope I'll be able to write this wikipage very soon then.
Thanks, Nico