Re: [gnome-women] Getting a Web Site Up & Logo Contest status

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

Hi everybody :)

On 14/08/2005, at 5:44 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Hey Clytie, help would be really appreciated!

:)

> The thing that I'm worried
> most about is content; I feel like we definitely want to go into more
> detail on each of the different ways people can contribute...

Yes, the more people we have contributing, the wider our coverage of  
important information.

> you have
> good knowledge of how the translation teams work so maybe you'd  
> like to
> write up a document talking about some of the issues involved in
> translating and how to get started? Your reply to svaksha [1] is a  
> good
> start on content for it!

Thankyou, that's a very helpful suggestion. I'm currently writing a  
lot of personal email on basic translation practices, so getting it  
up somewhere I could point people to would be a good use of time. I  
could include links to the Translate Wiki, the Gnome translator pages  
etc.
> Basically I'd like to use the wiki as a space to draft text for the
> website. I think it's better to have an actual website though  
> because if
> we just rely on the wiki, anybody can register an account and mess  
> with
> the content (I'm thinking of that crazy "death to women's rights" guy
> who attacked Debian Women and Linuxchix.)

A password works for the D-W wiki: do you want to protect ours with  
one? We just mail the password privately, or over IRC, to anyone who  
wants to help with the wiki.

It's a good draft vehicle, and even might simplify the process of  
getting stuff up on the main site, by allowing contributors to create  
their stuff there, then have focus people who transfer it to the site.
> Setting up a website on gnome.org is a little complicated but I'm  
> going
> to try to spend some time on that today.

Certainly a little complicated. :) I think it is with any big org:  
I'm still having svn probs with debian.org, although I got ssh  
through today, which was a big help. Gnome CVS was difficult, too,  
but once I had it working, it's been a big time-saver.
> > I'm also happy to get a translation going for the site, so I could
> > translate text as it's created, if you like.
>
> When our content gets to that point, that would be great! :)

1. Write content.
2. Translate it.

:D
> > I think getting Gnome themselves, as well as the other womens' OSS
> > groups, to mention us, is a good idea. :)
> >
> > I've seen one or two women translators on the gnome-i18n list whom
> > I'd like to invite here. It will be a lot easier when we have a
> > website to which we can point.
>
> Awesome! Feel free to point them towards the wiki in the meantime!

I'll do that. You really want to do these things when people are  
ready, or show an interest. That's where having stuff online is such  
a great resource.
> > We also need to get some helpful information up there, and start some
> > discussions here. Maybe an IRC channel, some quick tutes to help
> > people get started or solve common issues. These are all the things
> > that work for Debian-Women, so I'm keen to get them started here.
>
> Yep, some of the Debian-Women ones are really good too, so we'll
> probably want to link to them as well. It would be good to come up  
> with
> a list of what topics are the most in need of tutorials.

I think our two groups supporting each other, linking together, etc.  
is a really good idea. Translators certainly cross project  
boundaries, and it's not as though Gnome were a different OS. There  
must be a huge number of Debian users who also use Gnome, so we could  
work together on a lot of things, certainly refer people between the  
two groups.

I am _not_ going to spend the whole day on email today. (I did say  
that.)


from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
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