[Fwd]: Debian Installer team seeking for translators

Any takers?

----- Forwarded message from Christian Perrier <[email protected]> -----

 > Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 17:00:39 +0200
 > From: Christian Perrier <[email protected]>
 > Subject: Debian Installer team seeking for translators : Serbian (sr),
 >  Croatian (hr), Hindi (hi), others
 > To: [email protected], [email protected],
 > 	[email protected], [email protected]
 > Reply-to: [email protected]
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 > 
 > (reply set to -boot mailing list...feel free to forward this
 > everywhere you may think appropriate....as long as you point people
 > back to [email protected])
 > 
 > We need YOU! :-)
 > 
 > The Debian Installer currently supports 38 languages including
 > English (26 100% translated in beta3 and 12 under work or completed
 > since beta3 release). See list at the end of this mail.
 > 
 > The list grew up partly because of some DD or other contributors
 > giving enough interest for their own language and partly because some
 > of us tried to find resources for doing translation work in some other
 > "important" languages.
 > 
 > "Important" here means that these languages have a wide population in
 > the world....or that they are used in places where Open Source
 > operating systems have a good development currently or in the
 > future....or that they're important enough for someone somewhere
 > caring for having the Debian installation system transalted to it.
 > 
 > In this mail subject, I mentioned a few languages which I'm pretty
 > sure at least some Debian developers or users are native speakers.
 > 
 > A lot other languages are a good target however. Let's give a list:
 > 
 > -Serbian
 > -Croatian
 > -Latvian
 > -Estonian
 > -Belarussian
 > -Moldavian
 > -Icelandic
 > 
 > (with these, we would cover whole Europe, I think)
 > 
 > -Hindi (or whatever people from India will feel most appropriate
 > besides English)
 > 
 > -Afrikaans (some contact by DPL and myself, but no news since then)
 >  or Xhosa
 > 
 > -Vietnamese
 > -Thai
 > -Farsi (often called Persian)
 > 
 > 
 > And this is no limitation, of course !
 > 
 > If you happen to have some skills in one of these languages and some
 > free time to share with the Debian community, feel free to contact
 > either myself privately, or the debian-boot mailing list.
 > 
 > You will receive all possible technical help so don't be afraid and
 > start with the following document:
 > 
 > http://svn.debian.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/d-i/trunk/installer/doc/translations.txt
 > 
 > 
 > Currently supported languages (Arabic and Hebrew need backend work on
 > BIDI support, though):
 > 
 > ar	Arabic
 > bg	Bulgarian
 > bs	Bosnian
 > ca	Catalan
 > cs	Czech
 > cy	Welsh
 > da	Danish
 > de	German
 > el	Greek
 > en	English
 > es	Spanish
 > eu	Basque
 > fi	Finnish
 > fr	French
 > gl	Gallegan
 > he	Hebrew
 > hu	Hungarian
 > id	Indonesian
 > it	Italian
 > ja	Japanese
 > ko	Korean
 > lt	Lithuanian
 > nb	Norwegian Bokmal
 > nl	Dutch
 > nn	Norwegian Nynorsk
 > pl	Polish
 > pt	Portuguese
 > pt_BR	Portuguese (brazil)
 > ro	Romanian
 > ru	Russian
 > sk	Slovakian
 > sl	Slovenian
 > sq	Albanese
 > sv	Swedish
 > tr	Turkish
 > uk	Ukrainian
 > zh_CN	Chinese (Simplified)
 > zh_TW	Chinese (Traditional)
 > 
 > -- 
 > 
 > 
 > 
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