Re: application

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On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Fatih Demir wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:29:39AM +0800, zbtc wrote:
> > Having located your company on the world wide web, I am writing in the hope of applying for a job of freelance translator of English - my native language, i.e. Chinese, including simplified and traditional Chinese.
>
> So, I think we all would like to work for money on translations .-)
>

I got about six like these for my language's translations alone and still
getting more.
It's good policy (at least for GNOME el translations) to send back a
polite message laying out the situation.. :) I even have a template
letter.

Things to include in such a letter might be:
	o you may not have now the full qualifications for such
	    translations
	o you will definetely be able to get such qualifications
	o will look nice on your CV
	o you will get experience in working remotely
	o there is no direct paying involved
	o you may contact the local linux distributions
	    for support and they will like you if you already
	    have done some work
	o you will be prefered in future work involving GNOME
	o it's free to have a try and see how it goes

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