Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 23:59:18 +0100 From: Remko Lodder <remko@FreeBSD.org> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-translators@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Introduction Message-ID: <4C3DC8A3-915D-4CCE-83AA-1E766C450F5E@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412131535330.6198@wonkity.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412131535330.6198@wonkity.com>
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--Apple-Mail=_7AA5C858-85FF-4DA2-8550-8B290AA6E9AA Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > On 13 Dec 2014, at 23:48, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >=20 > I'm a FreeBSD documentation committer, and my interest in translation = is to help make the translation process easier. Translators and = translated documentation is often the first encounter people will have = with a project like FreeBSD. Our translation processes have not kept up = with the quantity of our documentation. Fixing that would make = translating much less work, and allow us to lower the barrier to entry = for volunteer translators. At the same time, it would simplify editing = documentation for English speakers. >=20 > During the Developer Summit at BSDCan 2014, Benedict Reuschling = presented an approach to this using existing tools for the PO/gettext = translation system used by many other projects: > https://wiki.freebsd.org/201405DevSummit/Translation >=20 > Personally, I only speak English, but would still like to make it = easier for others to translate our documentation. I=E2=80=99ll chime in as well. I am another FreeBSD Documentation = Committer (amongst others). I am (with rene@) the main translator for = the Dutch Documentation Project. We are one of the projects that are = affected by the high rate of english updates, which makes us unable to = properly follow. Having an easier system to do translations would make us capable of = keeping it up to date even better then we did in the past. My languages are mainly Dutch and English, but I can read German as well = :-) cheers Remko >=20 -- /"\ Best regards, | remko@FreeBSD.org \ / Remko Lodder | remko@EFnet X http://www.evilcoder.org/ | / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --Apple-Mail=_7AA5C858-85FF-4DA2-8550-8B290AA6E9AA Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUjMTGAAoJEKjD27JZ84ywLr8P/3UnHEQJ+MpCTD8aD4aTlVvy pZreuGZMM9GKhIz1y+NvzTOZZrLgnjlwNpfdbM05WaDpCItViZsaMzNYCAgHg0H9 ZsZtX1Hx9yTEdBcCY5EhDc67A53oaCjemIWzHDKPYs8D20pYm4CEEAn2YhEDPmZx 2otUgbcqNCRmAqlJdy7tYxV6sI6rCYMDAB3+ZnAerBl0BDufQcvaCNz/GAM1Ddf/ /bkNc09mzylRimswjTF9V28zHmaEf3LSN2ZoplvIsbxdrnfp7s7J3Q7z5IzN9x/i NpsRWTed1p+TnViv33Kzz1bgEvHc/zDN7csR6ipcy6L5UBWv4LIZGIl6f73UXOVc /ub/VR2aq0ELYl/WT7cynlJfF6uA0MMMY1BTbgnYdIJYaLPn3pm9cxgtxlwOAqgm Bc+NHG6FVO4RD2Pzft1vfwJNJ/te1ufzedhFxmxfSlurEbvA7MJ0Ctmu/f+CSF1t RpOgm/6CmXKxc/BTteyvT0K+8DQ7AIYlgARFAkXI1u6ge91B9oeg6D9UMMhzReiG JzqFpmZjN+qg+NAO0oUsKs2nkSXG6p3HzRQrOWgGNsC4omzGyeX0Ikt2DTeU+X0h RWSK/XPYMoBhxkfx44e8SqZUf0nBpj6zIkSl1+IstLyMy5+1dovtODDb4YEJ1V3m oN2xqJUkTAHt13ZuQWQW =i1z6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_7AA5C858-85FF-4DA2-8550-8B290AA6E9AA--
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