Dear all, On 03/10/13 10:11, Mihkel Tõnnov wrote: > I am the Estonian translator of LibreOffice and (at least in theory) > manager of et.libreoffice.org <http://et.libreoffice.org>. The redirect > was my decision, because I don't have time to maintain > et.libreoffice.org <http://et.libreoffice.org> myself and no volunteers > have stepped in to do it either. So I saw redirecting it to > libreoffice.ee <http://libreoffice.ee> (which at least gets updated) as > a reasonable solution until I or someone else would have time to > maintain et.libreoffice.org <http://et.libreoffice.org>. > > I am aware of this (except for the FB plugin issues, which I hadn't > thought about until now), thanks to Marc Paré, who wrote to me about it > on June 19, 2012. I sent a message to the site maintainers after that, > asking them to fix these issues, but I never got a reply and they > haven't corrected their mistakes either.
I would like to remark that this is a rather interesting history. If I may be so bold, I would also like to add that The Document Foundation might wish to develop a common policy on future redirects to external sites. Now to the point. > There is et.libreoffice.org/allalaadimine > <http://et.libreoffice.org/allalaadimine>, but the text there is > seriously outdated by now. I am very happy that et.libreoffice.org does not redirect to libreoffice.ee anymore. In my personal opinion, the clean and minimalistic <http://et.libreoffice.org/allalaadimine> is much clearer and more pleasant than libreoffice.ee, even if the latter did not have the aforementioned problems. In any case, thank you for the speedy resolution of the part having direct bearing on The Document Foundation. I will be sure to let the FSF know that The Document Foundation has no further to play in the resolution of this issue. > updated. However, since libreoffice.ee <http://libreoffice.ee> does have > useful info in Estonian for users, I would still like to provide a link > to it somewhere on et.libreoffice.org <http://et.libreoffice.org>, > although this time with a disclaimer. Personally, I would recommend against that. The site can easily be found using a search engine. Furthermore, in addition to the freedom issues already presented, there has been a lot of talk in some Estonian free software circles that the site is not maintained to a level that would make it useful. > Would that resolve a part of the problem here? If I have understood correctly that TDF does not actually play any part in the maintenance of this site and simply directed people there, and this redirect has now ended, then I consider the issue, as it relates to TDF, solved. > Perhaps it would help if you, as a representative of FSFE, contacted the > managers of libreoffice.ee <http://libreoffice.ee>, perhaps they are > more motivated to reply to FSFE than to a mere translator. First, I would gladly contact the managers of this site. Could you send _me_ an e-mail with their contact details and a _brief_ overview of the site's background (who? what? why?). Second, localisation is of paramount importance, so you are not a mere translator – you are a translator doing a bunch of great work to make it possible for more than one million people to use LibreOffice in their native language, and you are helping to ensure the continuity of cultural wealth the world knows as languages. Thank you for your cooperation and speedy resolution of this issue. Cheers, -- Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild FSFE Fellowship Representative mailto:[email protected] xmpp:[email protected] http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
