Saluton,
Mi havas okazon por iu kiu paroli la angla tre bone.
...so the rest of this email will be in English.
I'm searching for one or two people who speak very good English (and
reasonably good Esperanto) to learn the two areas I am currently
responsible for in regards to the translation of Openoffice.
Both areas require good English language skills although English does not need to be your first language.
Opportunity #1: Native Lang / Openoffice interface
Responsibilities: Issue handling, working with Openoffice and Sun
employees, working with other internal OOo projects such as lingu
(spelling and grammar checking), communications (newsletters and such),
and occaisionally marketing. This position officially is responsible
for contacting other Esperanto organizations (e.g. UEA) to solicit
support from them for the project. Currently Tim has been helping
with this because of his connections but also because he is more
proficient in Esperanto than I am.
Opportunity #2: Build Manager, Code Monkey
Responsibilities: Using a linux distribution, build test releases of
Openoffice (about 6 hours to build on a fast machine) in Esperanto with
the lingu=eo flag. Test all changes implemented in the code. I've
done a massive amount of work here so only the items left in the status
report at
http://eo.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList
...and many folks in the Japanese Openoffice group also speak Esperanto
so they have occaisonally been building EO test versions for me.
The reason English is very important for these two positions is that
all communications, documentation, and even programming code is in
English.
Officially there are two projects within our EO project: Native
Language, and L10N. Officially, I run the Native Language
project and Tim is my backup. Tim officially runs L10N, and I
have been his backup. Together, we work to achieve our common
goal. Both of the positions above, as part of the Native Language
Proejct, require heavy interaction with Tim and will continue to do so
(or with whomever takes on his responsibilities per his email).
I am looking for one or more people to train to take over these jobs. I am doing this for a few reasons:
1) Like Tim, my life is very busy and I am not able to spend more than a few hours a month on this project.
2) If I get hit by a bus, someone will need to relearn all of this the hard way.
3) I've been here since the beginning and I think it will be good to
have someone else be the lead. We have a saying in English: "A
new broom sweeps clean".
4) Pretty much everyone who is reading this has better Esperanto
capabilities than I do. At times I feel I am doing a disservice
to the project for not having sufficient skills to do some parts of the
job.
I am not running away so I will still be here to help out. It's the
leadership and decision making for the two areas above which I am
looking to turn-over.
If you are interested, please email me directly, in English.
Thanks,
Joey
