Re: [Web-trans] Re: responsiveness check

[Ofer Waldman]

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From: Praveen Kamat <address@hidden> 
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 10:18:48 -0700 (PDT) 
To: Ofer Waldman <address@hidden> 
Subject: Re: [Web-trans] Re: responsiveness check 
 
> --- Ofer Waldman <address@hidden> wrote: 
>  
> > ... The format you sent me (XLXLS Microsoft 
> > excel), is a closed format so we'd better not use 
> > it, especially not for GNU purposes :) 
>  
> I agree but the laptop I use has Windows XP and I am 
> still figuring out how to non-destructively partition 
> the hard disk for a GNU/Linux installation. 
>  
 
bummer. 
Install openoffice there. 
Whenever I'm forced to use Windows I make sure to have OpenOffice there. 
HTML is possible on all platforms anyway. 
 
> > the coordinators list is definitely 
> > outdated, we don't know who's active, and we don't   
> > know who are the people within each team. 
>  
> Based on the responses received so far which seem to 
> indicate that several language teams are either 
> inactive or defunct should we consider updating the 
> mailing lists and the <.../README.translations.html> 
> web page. I am hesitant to suggest revising the list 
> and removing the inactive team lead contacts in case 
> they have only been slow to respond but I think we 
> need to start somewhere to accurately reflect the 
> current situation. 
>  
 
Go for it. 
Make the needed changes and we'll upload it. 
 
> > ...  we also don't actively create and encourage 
> > translation teams, we only accept suggestions for    
> > such. we also don't have statistic on what is        
> > translated and how much is left. 
>  
> As a next step should we begin to take an inventory of 
> what has been translated and what needs to be based on 
> some kind of prioritization of the originals. 
> 
 
I won't be able to help you with that much (around the middle of October I'll 
get busier, so I won't be able to help 
alot), but I'll be happy to hear your ideas on that one. 
  
> > By the way, what languages do you master? where are 
> > you from? (just curious) 
>  
> I did programming in C/C++ and Visual Basic but that 
> was almost 10-12 years ago. 
 
I meant human languages, but nice to know :) 
 
 
> > And another "by the way", we _must_ find a way to 
> > avoid all the SPAM. our list archive is flooded with 
> > junk-mail... 
>  
> Some of us had brought this to the attention of RMS 
> who had the sysadmin setup some form of anti-spam 
> filter on the web-trans mailing list. The situation 
> seems to have improved but it does not appear to have 
> stopped the spams completely. 
 
I think that if we won't put the address in plain form on the site (at least 
something like "web-trans AT gnu.org" it 
would improve things greatly. could you ask RMS on that? (I'll probably forget) 
 
--- 
salut! 
    Ofer Waldman (a.k.a. the duke) 
    GNU translations co-coordinator 
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