On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:27 PM, jan iversen <j...@apache.org> wrote: > Do I need a special roller account to be able to see it (in case of yes, > where are the create new user ?) ? >
Try this public URL: http://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=apache_openoffice_reached_out_to The other form of the URL required a blog account. To get a blog editor account, start a new thread proposing to make yourself an editor, seek lazy consensus (72 hours) and then create a JIRA issue for Infra linking to the proposal thread. http://www.apache.org/dev/infra-contact#what-we-need-to-know -Rob > have a nice wekend > Jan. > > > On 23 November 2012 18:17, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > On 11/23/12 5:54 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >> >>> >> >>> I drafted [1] a blog post to attract again some further volunteers >> >>> helping us with translations. As mentioned earlier we have several >> >>> languages where we have a UI coverage of more than 93%. I hope we can >> >>> find volunteers for this languages. >> >>> >> >>> Ok for some of the languages the work is already done or ongoing but I >> >>> included them again. I should probably make clear that we can benefit >> >>> from volunteers for the already released languages as well because we >> >>> all know the Arabic is not really maintained yet and I see a potential >> >>> problem for our next release with more UI changes. >> >>> >> >>> Feedback are welcome and feel free to change the draft. Especially a >> >>> linguistic review make always sense because I am no native speaker ;-) >> >>> >> >> >> >> OK. I'll take a look and perhaps make some bolder changes. One thing >> >> I've learned is that you need to draw the reader in early, in the >> >> first paragraph, and then get them to a state of awareness before we >> >> ask them to take action. I'll try to motivate that. >> > >> > thanks Rob, I am looking forward to your changes. >> > >> >> OK. My changes are in. The headers help users scanning the article >> see if they are interested. Also, I give further information for >> taking action both in the first paragraph and the last one. >> >> One thing that might help is if we had an estimate for how much effort >> is needed to move from 95% to 100%. Is it 4 hours or 40 hours? We >> probably deter some volunteers if they are scared to volunteer because >> they think the time commitment is too much. Maybe we can say, >> "Completing one of these translations takes approximately XXX hours, >> but this effort can be shared when several translators coordinate on >> the work". >> >> > I have a further idea to attract designers for our art work (logo, >> > icons, etc.) that I will discuss next week... >> > >> >> Cool. >> >> -Rob >> >> > Juergen >> > >> >> >> >> -Rob >> >> >> >>> Juergen >> >>> >> >>> [1] >> >>> >> https://blogs.apache.org/roller-ui/authoring/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=apache_openoffice_reached_out_to >> > >>
