We are building up a team of volunteers here. On launchpad there are 70 active translators for Albanian, 10 of whom I have recruited in the past months. I am giving a course in linux and teaching people about floss. It is not that we have huge numbers of active people, but we are building a community here. That is the issue, we need to make sure that people can contribute.
We will try and recruit more people for open office at our conference on the 29/30th of August (http://kosovasoftwarefreedom.org/). We have a new NGO FLOSSK.org Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova. Our webpage has 200+ members and growing. In kosovo they speak mainly "Gheg" and in Albania proper "Tosk" Albanian. The differences between Tosk and Gheg are not the issue at the moment. Our goal is not to create a standard "tosk" translation, in fact, we want to preserve as much of the work that has been done as possible. Once that is done, we can worry about Gheg dialect. We can introduce a dialect code when it is needed, just like German has DE, CH and AT dialects. But that is not the goal. The goal is to create something that can be used worldwide and to recruit as many of the existing translators as possible. I have already posted more details about my skills on d...@i10n, but let me say, I have 15 years of work experience and have worked as a build, release and test coordinator in many projects. I have also extensive c/c++, make and config mgmt experience. I have been involved in the free/open source world since 1999 at least. I came here to Kosovo to help start with creating an open source community, because it was sorely lacking. I cannot claim ultimate success, but I am trying, and will continue to try. thanks, mike On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Charles-H. Schulz<charles-h.sch...@laposte.net> wrote: > > James, > > In as much as OOo code, and especially the office suite binaries and source > code should be hosted on the OOo website, hosting FOSS code on SF is pretty > mainstream the last time I checked. > This being said, and since you claim to have a full team of volunteers, > could you please introduce yourself here, explain the size of the your team, > your skills, and how you plan to deal with the dialecal differences between > Albanian from Kosovo and Albanian from Albania? > > Thank you, > Charles. > > Le 3 juil. 09 à 16:25, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com a écrit : > >> >> Thats fine, we have time. >> I am busy recruiting people for the project and preparing. >> As I said, I dont need to be the lead, but am willing to do so if allowed. >> >> >> It seems to me that the project is not allow to host non-OSI content on >> sf.net. >> If they are allowed by the old license of OOO, it does not mean that >> it is allowed to post those non-free binaries, which have no source >> code on the sf.net site. It is making sf.net a host for proprietary >> software. >> >> >> 6. LICENSING AND OTHER TERMS APPLYING TO CONTENT POSTED ON THE >> SourceForge SITES: >> >> Use, reproduction, modification, and other intellectual property >> rights to data stored on the SourceForge Sites will be subject to >> licensing arrangements that may be approved by SourceForge as >> applicable to such Content. For the SourceForge Site SourceForge.net, >> use, reproduction, modification, and other intellectual property >> rights to data stored in CVS or as a file release and posted by any >> user on SourceForge.net ("Source Code") shall be subject to the >> OSI-approved license applicable to such Source Code, or to such other >> licensing arrangements as may be approved by SourceForge.net as >> applicable to such Source Code. >> >> >> Now, this means that sf.net has rights to the source, in return for >> hosting. But there is no source to be found. >> Please correct me if I am wrong on this, of course I am not a lawyer, >> and I don't know about the license in detail. >> >> thanks, >> mike >> >> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Charles-H. >> Schulz<charles-h.sch...@laposte.net> wrote: >>> >>> Hello James, >>> >>> Le 3 juil. 09 à 14:43, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com a écrit : >>> >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> can you please point me to the work being done, I found only binaries >>>> release many years ago >>>> on sourceforge. >>>> >>> >>> No, that is the one you have located. >>> >>>> I am unable to find the source code for any binaries released. I have >>>> asked around and noone has anything. >>>> I see no PO files for translation, and get no responses to my mails. >>>> >>>> >>>> My only wish is to have the following : >>>> 1. the sources for the existing translation so we can continue with >>>> them. >>>> 2. a pootle server or better yet, a launchpad.net setup for the >>>> albanian translation. >>>> 3. that the binaries from open office albanian are also accompanied by >>>> the sources. >>>> 4. That emails or tickets are answered on a timely basis. >>>> 5. That my project membership is confirmed on sq.openoffice.org >>>> >>>> If the existing project manager wants to take care of this, I am happy >>>> to work with him. >>>> If he does not have the time, maybe you want to consider that I am >>>> making time for this project and recruiting new members on a daily >>>> basis. >>> >>> >>> Good; our existing processes in this regard take a bit more time than 2 >>> days. Shkumbin Saneja is in copy of this email just in case. He should >>> now >>> step in and update us on the project status and the location of source >>> code. >>> But again: it does not happen in one night. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> Charles. >>> >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> mike >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Charles-H. >>>> Schulz<charles-h.sch...@laposte.net> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello James, >>>>> >>>>> Why do you want to take over a project that works and is active? >>>>> You may just want to work with the existing team. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> >>>>> Charles. >>>>> >>>>> Le 3 juil. 09 à 12:23, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com a écrit : >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi there, >>>>>> >>>>>> I would like to apply for taking over the sq project lead. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have founded a new organisation in kosovo for the promotion of free >>>>>> libre open source software, >>>>>> and am recruiting members from around the world for the open office >>>>>> team. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> James Michael DuPont >>>>>> FLOSSK : Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova >>>>>> http://flossk.org >>>>>> >>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org >>>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org >> >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org
