Translators needed

> From: Chris Leonard <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [Localization] New Etoys strings
> Date: 7. März 2012 08:10:21 MEZ
> To: Bert Freudenberg <[hidden email]>
>
> Dear Bert,
>
> Relations between OLPC / Sugar Labs and Etoys have always been warm
> and mutually beneficial.  Although we use a laptop.org mailing list
> for coordination and a sugarlabs.org server for Pootle hosting, I have
> always referred to the shared Localization resources as the Sugar Labs
> / OLPC / Etoys translation team.  I hope you have found the
> Translation Team responsive to Etoys needs and also helpful in filing
> i18n bugs to improve Etoys.
>
> The posting of the new Etoys strings on the Pootle server seems like a
> good time to ask you to make a special effort to reach out to the
> Etoys / Squeakland community and request their help with recruiting
> more localizers, not only to work on the new Etoys strings, but to
> join the extraordinarily precious shared resource that the Translation
> Team and shared localization tools represent for all of the hosted
> projects.
>
> The rate of change in the projects we host has been increasing as we
> have added new PO files in Honey as well as reaching out to other
> upstreams like the AbiWord and Gnash communities as well as
> downstreams like Waveplace.  Frankly, we can use all of the localizers
> that we can recruit in nearly any language, even if it is only to
> point them at upstream strings in Gnome that we use as a downstream
> (as we do).  Contributions from the Etoys community not only in
> localization, but in the recruitment of new localizers to our joint
> effort would be most welcome.
>
> My request is simple, please help get the message out to your
> community that we need localizers and recruiters of localizers.
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> cjl
> Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator
>
> P.S. Congratulations on your latest release!