Re: [gnome-love] Revitalising gnome-love ... some history

[chris <me blixtra org>]

Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 21:46, chris wrote:
> [...]
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> > Also, in response to Luis' response, I can't seem to find any team for 
> > American english or simply english. Should I get in touch with the 
> > german team? I dare not translate into German, though.
> >    
>
> Hmm .. maybe there are some crossed wires here. Luis was referring to
> the fact that Mathias Wirkus' book has already been translated into
> English. It is currently being proofread and will then be published.
You're right about the crossed wires there.

> I gather you are asking about doing regular translations from German to
> English. As GNOME stands at the moment, there is not a lot of call for
> that, since the vast majority of our documentation and program messages
> are written originally in English and then translated into other
> languages. This is mostly for pragmatic purposes: for language XX, we
> only need to have a team translating from English->XX, we don't need to
> also have teams doing XX->English or XX->YY. Consequently there is no
> "English" team.

That's what I was thinking, hence the remark in my first posting.

> There may be isolated cases when such translating talents are useful,
> but I cannot think of any of the top of my head. You may wish to drop
> into the gnome-i18n mailing list, though and at least introduce
> yourself. Alternatively, if you are comfortable using IRC, join the
> #i18n channel from time to time. The internationalisation guys are much
> more likely to know of such opportunities on the rare occasion that they
> arise.
>
> Cheers,
> Malcolm
>