<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">It seems that this has happened to me as well. Maybe the no response is because they are too busy and my emails go to their spam folder?!?! Anyways I wanted to do a manual, but no one emailed me back when I asked. I thought I emailed Andy.?<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Steve<br><div><div>On Sep 6, 2009, at 8:47 PM, victor rajewski wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>About a month ago I asked for a translation to be set up. Nothing<br>happened. Last week I asked again. No replies. I know the project I'm<br>working with isn't the most important thing in the world, and everyone<br>is busy etc etc, but there seems to be a serious process issue here.<br>This sort of response (or lack thereof) _will_ turn off potential<br>contributors, and is not the way to build a community. Perhaps there<br>is only a small number of people with the credentials to create a new<br>translation, and they are all busy, well, a short reply to that effect<br>would be a good start. Even better would be giving more people the<br>power to set these things up, or having a good look at the<br>workflow/process that goes on here.<br><br>Flossmanuals seems like a worthy project, but I have a document<br>(already up on flossmanuals) and a ready-to-go translation that I need<br>to start directing people to. Waiting over a month for that to happen<br>seems a bit of a stretch, so for the time being I'm investigating<br>other places to put this manual (wikibooks perhaps)<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Victor Rajewski<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: victor rajewski <<a href="mailto:vik@engagemedia.org">vik@engagemedia.org</a>><br>Date: Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:51 PM<br>Subject: translation of plumi<br>To: <a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.flossmanuals.net">Discuss@lists.flossmanuals.net</a><br><br><br>Hi,<br><br>I send this message a few weeks ago asking for someone to set up an<br>Indonesian translation spot for the Plumi manual. I haven't heard back<br>from anyone.<br><br>What is the process for getting a translation set up, and might it be<br>time to re-think that process given that I've seen other translation<br>requests ignored? Not a great way to build a base of contributors.<br><br>ciao<br><br>vik<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: victor rajewski <<a href="mailto:vik@engagemedia.org">vik@engagemedia.org</a>><br>Date: Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:58 AM<br>Subject: translation<br>To: <a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.flossmanuals.net">Discuss@lists.flossmanuals.net</a><br><br><br>Hi all,<br><br>I want to set up an Indonesian translation of the Plumi manual (not<br>much there yet, but what is there has already been translated!) Can<br>someone please create Plumi_id in translate.flossmanuals?<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>vik<br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.flossmanuals.net">Discuss@lists.flossmanuals.net</a><br>http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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