Hello, As shown in a recent mail from Elisa about the way Mozilla is “hiring” volunteers to translate into 85 languages (see message https://mail.gna.org/public/doudoulinux-dev/2011-03/msg00058.html), a good way to find new contributors is to look for people who already contributed to another project and send them an email. In my opinion searching for emails is not too much difficult (see article http://www.doudoulinux.org/web/private/team/article/find-new-translators). The question is then: what can we tell them so interesting that they'll come to us?
The difficulty is certainly to write an email short enough to be quickly read but containing a lot of attractive information – remember that we are a young project, people could not trust us. 1. Describe DDL → recent Linux child OS, easy as a gaming console, educational goals, speaks the child language natively, 15 languages + 5 demo languages 2. Words about our success story → +15,000 downloads and +50,000 visitors in 9 months of life, +35 contributors, more popular in China, France and Russia 3. Our needs → more languages! speed-up current translations 4. The work → translation of CD + website, translation portal Transifex + online CMS Please feel free to comment or complete. I think we can end with a template letter that anyone on this list could then use to help our project find additional translators. Cheers, JM. _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev
