Re: Russian GNOME support

["Christian Rose" <menthos menthos com>]

On 6/29/06, Sergey Bezdenezhnyh <sib-mail mtu-net ru> wrote:
> В Чтв, 29/06/2006 в 11:14 +0200, Christian Rose пишет:
> > On 6/14/06, Sergey Bezdenezhnyh <sib-mail mtu-net ru> wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > There is another one localized GNOME support, now in Russian.
> > > We available at www.gnome.org.ru and #gnome-ru. Can you mention about it
> > > on http://www.gnome.org/contact/
> > >
> > > Best Regards, Sergey
> >
> > Who's repsonsible for the www.gnome.ru web site, by the way? I'm
> > asking because instead of adding yet another Russian GNOME web site,
> > which may not solve the problem of people being confused by the old
> > unmaintained web site owned by someone else, we perhaps should try to
> > put some more efforts info convincing the existing site owner to do
> > something about the site.
> >
> >
> > Christian
>
> Our command tried to contact with gnome.ru site creator for several
> times, but he did not answer at all. From time to time he paid for
> hosting and domain name but did not update his site. That is why some
> years ago Russian GNOME translators created their own site. In time the
> number of people interested in GNOME in Russia increased and we decided
> not only to translate GNOME but also to support users. Today our site is
> divided into 3 parts: for translator, for developers and special for
> users. Beside we invite users to chat on #gnome-ru and from time to time
> we organize Russian GNOME Love Day
> (http://gnome.org.ru/wacko/LoveDay20060625) for new users.
> However, there is no link to Russian resources in the official GNOME
> site at all. We would be grateful to you if you add it.

(Please keep the list cc:ed)

The foundation should probably have some policy for situations like
this with local sites; they're unfortunately not uncommon. But I don't
know how to solve these situations at the moment.

That being said, I have added the info above to
http://www.gnome.org/contact/ now.


Christian