2011/3/17 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b@googlemail.com>
2011/3/16 Marek Laane <bald@smail.ee>:

> Well, I'm not sure what kind of information is required...  [....] but sad
> fact is also that Mandriva is and probably Mageia will be not very widely
> used, so there is no big community and even fewer activists.

Would you believe that these 2 points are related? If there were more
information about Mageia, about its activities and progress, then may
be there will be more people interested. How would you find people
knowing about Mageia if you don't talk about it in their language?
When you think that this is not necessary, why would a localisation be
necessary? Both parts are "walking hand in hand" - tell the people
about it in their language and then present the product in their
language.

IMHO this is the essence of communication and marketing (or, if you
want: spreading).

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wobo
Well, yes, I know the argument. I'm just in no way an evangelist and even don't want to be. I'm interested only in translation mostly because I like it: both translation as a process and the fact my working space is in my language. Proselyting is not for me but there are some people who do want it - there is already even the web site http://mageia.planet.ee (for now just redirect to http://www.mageia.org/et/) maintainer of which has some plans for content special for Estonians (some visual installation guide, maybe some packages or scripts for further localisation (e.g. for Estonian electronic ID)) - essentially probably something like he did for Mandriva (http://mandriva.planet.ee/). Though, I might ask once more is there somebody who'd be interested in translating Mageia blog...

Marek Laane
Estonian translator