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[Robert Keidel <rkeidel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

my name is Robert and I attended the meeting the first time today. I
followed the conversation with interested. I am dual language
(English/German), with German as my native language. A few years back my
English was not as good as today, and I found myself trying very had to
explain something in English that would be so easy to do in my native
language. I believe there are more people that have similar experience. I
like the approach of Andrey and I willing to participate for the translation
of German language.

Robert



On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Andrey Dunin <andrey@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> All,
>
> Mohammed brings up a very good point! Ubuntu has a user-base in almost
> every country around the world. Not everyone can explain their problem well
> in English thus it can cause many bugs not fixed.
> Here is how I would handle this issue:
>
> 1. Conduct a survey to find out the ammount of users there are whose
> dominant language is other than English.
>
> 2. Assign ACTIVE cordinators for each one of these languages, if a language
> does not have many users, assign 1. For more widespread languages like
> Spanish - Multiple will be needed.
>
> 3. Bugs are submitted through a general form, but the user is able to chose
> his native language which will then send the bug over to a translator.
>
> 4. Translator translates the bug and it is released to the general public
> for viewing.
>
>
> An issue with the above can be that the translator can in one point decide
> that he doesnt feel like translating no more. If he is the only translator
> for the language -- we are stuck.
>
> I am willing to take on the translation for the Ukrainian and Russian
> languages since I speak them fluently.
>
> This is not something that she be ignored since there are MANY non-english
> speaking users around the world and I know many of them which is funny since
> I live in the United States :)
>
>
> Lets hear some more feedback!
>
> Andrey
>
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Mohammed Amine IL Idrissi <
> ilidrissiamine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Currently, we (bug triagers and users of Launchpad in general) only
>> accept bug reports and comments in English. This can cause a problem,
>> since it's nearly impossible for speakers of a language other than
>> English to post a bug report ; in the end, we're losing an opportunity
>> to improve Ubuntu by fixing nasty bugs.
>>
>> So how can we improve this situation? In our recent meeting, two
>> possibilities (I think) were discussed:
>> - Include the option of translating the bug via Google Translate's API.
>>  I don't think this is a good idea, since the translation isn't
>> guaranteed to be good, which can lead to confusion in technical talks
>> IMO.
>> - Have a small group of bug triagers in each local community, who
>> would triage bugs from native/foreign speakers and then send them to
>> Launchpad with the appropriate translation.
>>
>> So what's your point of view? Please share it :)
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Mohamed Amine IL Idrissi
>>
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