Hi Victor and Steve -<br>So sorry this has been such a trial. I think there are some difficulties in the translation workflow as well. I will get started on the Plumi manual - Indonesian. <br><br>It's tough when Adam travels because we all figure he's doing it and don't want to start off a second one. So that's one difficulty with the workflow. The second difficulty for me personally is that translation "jobs" for lack of a better term take a long time. So if I have just 5-10 minutes at the computer, I don't like to kick one off and leave it without being able to send a second email that it's done. Ah, sounds like a microvolunteering job if I ever heard of one. :)<br>
<br>We'll keep working on it, and I appreciate you letting us know of the frustrations. <br><br>I'll send a second email to you, Victor, to give you the URL for the translation. <br><br>Steve, I have to look through the archives because your request is escaping my memory! But I'll look at it and kick it off too, then send you a note. <br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;">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<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><div><div>On Sep 6, 2009, at 8:47 PM, victor rajewski wrote:</div><br><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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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>
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