Re: Kazakh Coordinator Not Responding

[Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com>]

Gizat M. wrote:
> Dear GNOME staff,
> I am from Kazakhstan and had been using GNU/Linux for over two months 
> now and will never switch to other OS again!
> Because I love it so much, I'd like to spread it among my Kazakh 
> people. And I am eager to contribute in making a Kazakh GNOME.
> However, the current coordinator assigned for the Kazakh team is not 
> responding, that is his email is not valid, it doesn't exist. I can't 
> reach him and there's no advances in translation (zero modification 
> had been made).
> How can I resolve this issue? Can I become a coordinator and start 
> translating GNOME?
> Sincerely,
> Gizat Makhanov.
Hi Gizat,

Thanks for your interesting in localising GNOME in the Kazakh language.

To become the coordinator for Kazakh, please see the section "There is 
already a non-responsive coordinator"at
http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/StartingATeam

Here is his registration of the Kazakh team in 2004,
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2004-December/msg00020.html

I did some searching for Amrenov. His nickname is "arruah", and 
apparently his has been active in Ubuntu Rosseta. His profile,
https://launchpad.net/~arruah
shows an updated e-mail address which I cc: as well.
He also has a blog, which shows that he is active in open-source, but he 
has neglected to update the details at GNOME Translation.

Ubuntu allows to translate GNOME on their own servers, and it appears 
that Amrenov has done a little work there,
https://translations.edge.launchpad.net/~arruah/
However, none of these translations have been added back to GNOME (this 
has to be done manually).

I am cc:ing Amrenov, as evidence that a notification e-mail has been 
sent to his e-mail account.
Amrenov, if you are reading this, please reply.

Kazakh localisation is very important for GNOME.
It is very important for both of you to talk it over and make an active 
Kazakh GNOME localisation team.

Simos Xenitellis
Greek localisation team