Hi all,

As announced in the latest blog entry (http://blog.mageia.org/?p=271 )
the founders asked me to start building the i18n and documentation
team organisation. As the documentation section is still under
construction I will postpone the building of this team until open
questions are answered (as a preview, Calenco (http://www.calenco.com)
will possibly be chosen as collaboration tool for that).

So let's start right away with the procedure (please read to the end
to get all infos):

First I want to make a distinction between the translation of
application menues/strings translation and floating text translation
of documents. As everybody knows there are important differences in
the workflow, the tools, etc. between these 2 sections of i18n,
although there are many translators working in both areas. I want to
focus on the application translation first because text translation
depends on the documentation team's work, which is not yet ready to
go.

I suggest the following steps:

 - Announce team bulding on the i18n list (this mail here)

 - Let language teams organize themselves internally, name contacts/team leaders

 - First meeting on IRC


The simple task of this team building process is to organize all the
different language groups, find a way for general discussions,
participate in regular meetings, choose the representatives which will
report to the community council and/or be the contact for the council.
This will be achieved in several steps:

 - setting an organisational structure for each language. This will be
done inside each group. The task of the internal groups is to
implement short communication ways inside each language group to
coordinate work for the language in question. This way local
discussions will not clutter the i18n mailing list. Another task may
be to "hire" more people interested in this line of work. There are
many translators out there who would help translating documents but
not so many who woould do the "string work". We should find ways to
improve this situation :)

 - - Each language group can set up their own mailing list or wiki
page (example: French and German) for internal communication. If there
is a necessity to set up a mailing list on the Mageia server pls tell
me.
 - - Each language group selects 2 "contacts" which may be also the
team leaders but not necessary. These contacts will meet regularly on
IRC - please only one (1) person per language - with the contacts of
other language groups to discuss and report from and to their language
group

2. First meeting

First meeting should be next week. As time/date I suggest Thursday,
December 9, 2010, at 18:00 Paris time (GMT +1).

--
wobo