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[Elan Kugelmass <epkugelmass@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for forwarding my message along Dmitry. I appreciate that.

I'm copying the ubuntu manual team on this email.

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Dmitry Agafonov <dmitry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 2010/4/29 Elan Kugelmass <epkugelmass@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hi Dmitry!
> >
> > I'm contacting you in hopes of finding someone who coordinates the RU
> > localization process. I'm a member of the Ubuntu Manual team. We just
> > released the first edition of Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04, which
> > is a beginner's guide to linux, ubuntu and computers in general. The
> > Guide aims to be an accessible, but thorough, FOSS publication which
> > will help and encourage beginning users.
> >
> > In the first 24 hours after the release, we've had over 15,000
> > downloads, including 100+ requests for a Russian edition. We're set up
> > with Rosetta in Launchpad, but we need additional translators to help us
> > get this localized version out.
> >
> > If you can help me get more people on board, I would be extremely
> > grateful.
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> >
> > Elan
>
> Hi, Elan!
>
> It was very nice to know that such a useful project started some time ago.
> But we were a bit confused, because we just managed to create our own
> beginners manual in Russian:
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-russian-guide was released for 9.10.
> Currently it is about to be fully updated for Lucid.
> Moreover, there are at least two more user guides written in Russian
> from the scratch...
> Meanwhile, our translators left the Ubuntu Desktop Course project
> because the translated material is getting far behind Ubuntu itself
> too fast.
>
> I'll resend your invitation to our translators but do not expect great
> response currently, sorry.
>
> --
> Dmitry Agafonov ~ http://agafonov.pp.ru/
>