Hello everyone! The Spanish speaking LoCo teams have for some time now been cooperating in our documentation and translation efforts. New needs and challenges have arised on the way and I think it's time to point some of these, and hopefully solve them. Sorry if this a little off-topic.
* Launchpad should have support for other languages, not just english. >From the Launchpad FAQ: Can I translate Launchpad itself into my language? Not yet. Launchpad is still in the process of having its templates assembled and published, and the infrastructure for serving different languages is not yet ready. When this happens, we'll be sure to make a public announcement and invite community translators. We need this to be done. Maybe open sourcing whatever part of Launchpad that needs to be open sourced for this to happen would help? Not all of our translators speak english. This is a problem when translating to local languages (like Spanish -> Quechua or Spanish -> Guarani) since there is people that know how to translate within these languages,, but do not speak English enough (or at all) in order to manage to use the interface marking the spanish translations/suggestions. * Launchpad should be use as the project and blueprint base for non english speaking devs and users. The combination Ubuntu Wiki + Launchpad for project development is very fruitful in the english speaking user/dev land. But this power cannot be unleashed throughout the whole community as long as we don't have a real option. The wiki offers already to some extent support for other languages, but launchpad does not. This language gap needs to be covered in order to include everysingle member of the community and not having their language as a barrier for achieving this, but rather as a strength to develope and expand further our communitarian efforts. The different LoCo Teams worldwide could "supply" help on the translation of the templates. This would catapult Launchpad to new highs since no-one is offering such a service (Sourceforge -NO, Google Code - NO, OpenSuse Building Service -NO) and would differentiate Launchpad even more from the rest (as it does today when in comes to features)... After all ubuntu has this wonderful community. I am sure the community would be up to such a task. I, for one, will. Will you? Cheers, Rubén - Hubuntu https://launchpad.net/~hubuntu Contact Member Ubuntu Ecuador LoCo Team Member Ubuntu Norway LoCo Team Member Ubuntu Marketing Team
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