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Re: A Brief Introduction

 

Welcome aboard, James.

Cheers,
Alfredo
On 9 Apr 2015 12:51 am, "James Tait" <james.tait@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Greetings!
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> Since I recently subscribed to the British English Translations Team,
> I thought a word or three of introduction may be in order.
>
> By now you have probably already worked out my name (it's James, in
> case you haven't). I live with my wife, two boys and five cats in
> Mickleover, on the western edge of Derby. I also work from there, for
> Canonical Online Services. My current focus is the new Software Store.
>
> I've been using Linux distributions since around 1997, starting with
> Slackware and settling on Ubuntu full-time in 2006. During that time
> I've also brought my family into the Ubuntu community (we don't have a
> copy of Windows in the house); this recently extended outside the
> confines of my own home to include my dad!
>
> For all that, I'm very new to Launchpad translations. In the course of
> my work I needed a way to present dynamic content in the Store Scope
> (26 Departments, each with a Highlight, plus 10 top-level Highlights)
> in a localised format for each of the 71 languages and variants we
> currently support. Launchpad seemed to be the logical choice for
> scaling that kind of translation effort, and so my journey began!
>
> As you were!
>
> JT
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> James Tait, BSc                        |    xmpp:jayteeuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Programmer and Free Software advocate  |        Tel: +44 (0)870 490 2407
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