Hi all DDL people!
It is a good approach, I wish you luck, and I am convinced that it will
bring some new contributors to DDL. Unfortunately, in my country case,
RO, I have some knowledge about the people involved in the free
software, on the translations side, and I sadly say there are few,
attached to their projects and having a lot of work to do so will be
difficult to attract some of them.
But we have to try!
Pe 30.03.2011 12:21, [email protected] a scris
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.
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