Gnome-Women wiki intro to translators

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

Hi everybody :)

I'm a member of the new Gnome-Women group [1], which is very  
welcoming, and a place we hope we can encourage more women to  
participate in Gnome. So I'd really like to see some of you women  
translators coming along and introducing yourselves: I'm the only  
translator there, so far (it's a very small group as yet), and I'd  
like to talk about what it's like to be a female translator, with you  
there.

First up, it's very important to say that we don't form a group like  
this because we're unhappy with the way men in Gnome behave, or we  
need somewhere we can function: I've always found this list very  
welcoming, helpful and supportive, and I've joined Gnome-Women to  
encourage more women translators to join us here. :)

As a start, I've put up a 'Intro to New Translators' [2] in the Gnome- 
Women wiki (on Live.Gnome.org):

It's really more of a friendly intro,. with plenty of personal  
experience (it's made up of all the mistakes I made when I started  
out here <cough of embarrassment>), not a definitive guide to  
translating at Gnome, because we have some very good information  
already. It's there to encourage people who maybe haven't thought  
they _could_ contribute by translating, to have a go, secure in the  
knowledge that we all make mistakes, and there will be plenty of  
support available. I think it includes links to our current  
introductory info.

It's certainly not set in concrete, and I'd really like some feedback  
on it from you on it. I'd also appreciate it if you would point any  
women you know or meet who might be interested in translating, to  
this article. I'm also looking into forming a mentoring group for new  
women translators, probably a sub-group of LinuxChix, so it isn't  
limited to any one project, so please encourage any women, tentative  
or enthusiastic about translation, to contact the list or me  
personally. I think we _can_ encourage more women to participate  
(there are a lot of us out there, you know :) ), and I know I can  
point them towards Gnome and this list, where we all form such an  
effective and welcoming group.

It would be great, also, to translate this article, so if you're  
interested in doing so, please grab the text and have a go. :)  After  
all, we have to have some fun during string freeze... :D

btw, when does the String-Freeze-Pre-During-or-Post-Release Party  
start? :D

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhÃm  
Viát hÃa phán mám tá do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN

[1] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen
[2] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomenTrans