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Release announcement translation
by Rahul Sundaram 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Hi Release announcements for new releases are a major piece of information that hasnt been translated and announced in sync unlike the release notes. Since this adds a lot of visibility to the L10N efforts, I would like to see us do that from the Fedora Core 6 release onwards. I have talked to Paul.W.Frields on IRC and there are a few things we need to take care of. * Release announcements are usually in a style which doesnt lend itself well to translation and changing into a more formal style would make it rather dull. We can workaround that by doing a alternative formal style announcement that we translate leaving the current community style announcement untranslated but linking them together. I had written a release summary for Fedora Core 5 and now a draft one for Fedora Core 6 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC6ReleaseSummary) which might serve this purpose. * After the test3 release we need to decide the location of the final Fedora Core 6 release notes and link to it from the above release summary, convert it into DocBook XML format, import into CVS and make it available for translation. I am copying Alam and Jesse Keating for coordinating the translation efforts and making sure that the release summary is linked from the community announcement. We need to get the ball rolling now. Rahul

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FDSCo meeting minutes 08 Aug 2006
by Karsten Wade 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Tasks updated at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/SteeringCommittee/TaskSchedule That will do best for minutes, from now on; look at the Status column. -- Karsten Wade, RHCE, 108 Editor ^ Fedora Documentation Project Sr. Developer Relations Mgr. | fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject quaid.108.redhat.com | gpg key: AD0E0C41 ////////////////////////////////// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

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Serge Sterck est absent(e).
by Serge.Sterck＠fmsb.be 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Je serai absent(e) du Sam 12/08/2006 au Dim 03/09/2006. Je répondrai à votre message dès mon retour.

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New translation: mirror-tutorial-pt_BR
by Hugo Cisneiros 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Hi guys, A new translation done by Diego Zacarão and revised by me was done and commited to CVS. As defined in our procedure, I'm granting Diego Zacarão (diegobz) docs membership as I was his sponsor and approved his work. I'll update the website shortly. Thanks! -- []'s Eitch http://www.devin.com.br/eitch/ "Talk is cheap. Show me the code." - Linus Torvalds

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Trans-QSG (bug-198725)
by Manuel Ospina 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Hi all, I have modified section 2.3 of the Translation quick start guide to solve the bug #198725. Could anyone edit it and proofread it? Thanks in advance, Manuel

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Suggestions for system home page
by Dimitris Glezos 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

OK, I'll throw yet another idea on the table here. :) I sat back and thought a bit about the default home page of the browser, served at file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html. I feel it isn't really what the users should see as a system home page. What we should aim is a page that feels like "home", something welcoming, a collection of useful information for the desktop. Some random ideas follow: 1. For start, that page should be a collection of useful documentation links, with clever use of graphics and positioning. 2. Ideas of docs that should be included are a desktop guide, the release notes, FAQs and links to other useful documentation, like fedorafaq.org, fedora news, fedora people, etc. Links to online content should be specially noted, because not everybody is 24/7 connected. 3. The presentation should be in a pleasant way, keeping in mind that the initial page should be short, simple, sweet and handy. So that the user will *want* to use them, to learn more and browse through the pages. Also, it should have a differenet look and feel than fp.org. 4. An infobox with "docs news" would be nice, like "From July 2006, a new guide that might interest you, is available at http://...". Could be irritating though. 5. Text ideas: "This is a collection of documentation about your system, a place where you can explore the world of Fedora." ... "If this is the first time you are using Fedora, be sure to check out the following documents:" 6. Ideally, the user should be able to search in this (small) documentation database. Or, even better, be able to aggregate content from various documents, like his doc db, the online docs and the wiki. Hell, we could even be able to aggregate there (or at a separate "live" page) latest planet posts, news, etc. Of course, this dynamic content is a totally different story. An example of a nice-looking splash home page is the initial screen of the Eclipse platform [1]. -dim [1]: Screenshot found on the web: http://207.56.100.120/221Spring2006/EclipseWelcomeGrab.jpg -- Dimitris Glezos Jabber ID: glezos(a)jabber.org, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B http://dimitris.glezos.com/ "He who gives up functionality for ease of use loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous) --

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Re: Self-Introduction: John Babich
by John Babich 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Damien and Paul, thanks for the quick and hearty welcome. I went through the required steps to create the SSH and GPG keys, filled out, signed and returned the ICLA, and created a Wiki account. I think I did all the steps necessary to get started. Let me know if I missed any. Paul, I look forward to working on the suggested documents. It seems evident from the Introduction in the Desktop User Guide that I need to install FC6 Test 2 as soon as possible. This may take a few days due to generally slow connections in the part of the world in which I'm currently working. Meanwhile, I'll try to stop by IRC in the next few days and get to know some of my fellow contributors better. John Babich

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Self-Introduction: John Babich
by John Babich 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

My name is John Babich. I normally live and work near Baltimore, Maryland in the US. However, I'm temporarily working overseas as a GSM Reporting Manager with Norconsult Telematics. For the record, this is a volunteer effort in my spare time. My Goals and Qualifications I would like to assist the Fedora Core Documentation Project in any way possible. My primary interest is in producing documents to help promote Fedora Core in particular and desktop Linux in general. I'm a long-time user of Linux and I'd like to give something back in return. I see my role initially as an editor/proofreader, but can contribute some articles on the technical aspects of Linux. I've spent the last 25 years working in some aspect of IT and, more recently, telecommunications. I ran my own LAN/WAN integration business and taught public seminars on local area and wide area networks. I also helped start one of the first NetWare user groups and was active in NetWare Users International. I use Fedora Core as my everyday desktop. I take every opportunity to promote Fedora Core in my workplace and among my friends and family. My current assignment requires me to do a great deal of technical writing. These are mostly project status reports in MS Office formats (Word, Excel and PowerPoint). I prefer to work in OpenOffice.org, but a guy's got to eat. I'm new to DocBook and I hope to be up-to-speed shortly, thanks to some great online documentation. Despite the Novell connection, I prefer Fedora Core over SUSE. This is due to my good results with using Red Hat Linux, starting with version 5.0. I say this despite the good old days of using experimental (as in alpha, not beta) video and sound drivers to get a Linux desktop on my IBM ThinkPad. Consequently, I feel I'm an excellent match due to my prior experience with user groups, long history of using Red Hat and Fedora Core, and my current experience with technical writing. Even though I'm a brilliant monolinguist, I get excited at the thought of working on a global multilingual project like Fedora Core. GPG KEYID and Fingerprint pub 1024D/42AF1331 2006-08-12 [expires: 2008-08-11] Key fingerprint = CE8E 40BD 5CB8 8437 787F 8F57 D517 C1DF 42AF 1331 uid John M. Babich (Fedora Project) <jmbabich(a)gmail.com> sub 2048g/9C81B068 2006-08-12 [expires: 2008-08-11]

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Re: Translation FC6 Freeze
by Paul W. Frields 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 19:22 +0200, Bart Couvreur wrote: > Op do, 10-08-2006 te 19:10 +0530, schreef A S Alam: > > Diego Búrigo Zacarão ਨੇ ਲਿਖਿਆ: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I saw this "Fedora Core 6 po files should be committed before August, 16th > > > 2006." at #fedora-l10n and > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Schedule. > > > > > > Is this date "August, 16th" still correct? > > > > > let us wait for reply from some Developer to this list > > > > thanks > > On the L10N[1] page it says August, 16th, apparently cause that *was* > the date of the FC6 test 3 devel freeze. Can I be correct by saying that > the trans freeze should then change to the new[2] FC6 test 3 devel > freeze on 5th of September? > > [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N > [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Core/Schedule This is probably a safe assumption for planning purposes. Any interested translators should probably put a watch on that page on the Wiki (using the UserPreferences page) for good measure. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project Board: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board Fedora Docs Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject

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Re: Translation FC6 Freeze
by Paul W. Frields 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 19:10 +0530, A S Alam wrote: > Diego Búrigo Zacarão ਨੇ ਲਿਖਿਆ: > > Hi, > > > > I saw this "Fedora Core 6 po files should be committed before August, 16th > > 2006." at #fedora-l10n and > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Schedule. > > > > Is this date "August, 16th" still correct? > > > let us wait for reply from some Developer to this list Since that's a Docs Project schedule, I doubt any developers will comment... ;-) But no, that schedule is no longer correct. I will make sure someone updates it as soon as possible to reflect changes in the distribution's overall schedule for FC6. Thanks for catching this problem Diego! -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project Board: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board Fedora Docs Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject

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