I totally agree with you and since we are (still) a "small" community having
the same persons helping always and at time could be very difficult (even we
can have a lot of concerned people).
Yes but where could we do that ? I mean a lot of things could already have
been done (like in my case the Portuguese translation), but there is no place
for such a thing, only this page. I thing that what we need to need is a
reconstruction of some basic parts in order to make things happen quickly.
For example, why don't use a wiki System like Arch Linux ? It is open to
everyone and when someone has something to add they can do it just by login
in ! That is amazing in so many ways :D And because of that we have a lot of
translator that can do the work, well... when they can. And if they can't and
there is someone out there that can do, then they will do it.
For example, imagine that I was here, foot on floor saying "I am here to
translate everything to Portuguese" what should I do ? Should I create a post
about asking people if they want to contribute ? Should I start translating
and sending the files to anyone to see if they agree (even if they will
possibly don't have the possibility to see if I really translated well) ?
In my opinion this should work like the patches on the Linux Kernel. We have
the coder, then he send it to a responsible, then this responsible confirms
it, the community tries it, and then it is sent to Linus Torvalds so he can
approve it and put it on this beautiful thing called the Linux Kernel.
We should be able to do the same. Even if I totally understand that a lot of
people (more Rubén), can't have the privilege to work at full time on this
project.
The first things I think that we should change is :
- The Forum (Voting Topics, Categories, a Section only for development and
ideas etc...)
- The Wiki (Something more external an easy to use, in order for people to
see how everything can be configured and how everything works (just like the
Arch Linux Wiki, or the Ubuntu Wiki).
As for the proposal, it is something like everything I wrote until know or
the idea of me helping with anything I could even managing ? (I will start
reading all the posts in a few hour, just need to finish something first).
PS: Sometimes I feel (not because of your answers but because of my lack of
English grammar) that I'm being more "robust" and "criticizing" that I really
am xD I just want to make everyone understand (even if most of the people
really don't care and it is totally normal), that I am really in a "war"
against everything I hated about proprietary software for years, but never
found a community that shared the same ideas as me... And now that I've
found, I wanted to help with everything that I could, nothing more, nothing
less :D
Best Regards,
Luis Da Costa
