Re: [Foundation-l] please announce translations earlier

2011-03-24 Thread Béria Lima
> > * It's true that the translation request wasn't officially opened until > March 10, but that still left two full weeks to translate.* > Good for people who have nothing more to do. For people like us who have others things to do (like work and college), two weeks is not that much time - even l

Re: [Foundation-l] please announce translations earlier

2011-03-23 Thread Erik Moeller
2011/3/23 Casey Brown : > I definitely think that the letter was way too rushed, but that is not > the norm.  I can also understand the desire to try to be transparent > and post notifications as soon as possible, so that's a different > case. I'm not convinced that frontloading a waiting period a

Re: [Foundation-l] please announce translations earlier

2011-03-23 Thread Casey Brown
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > How much earlier should it be? I did Sue's letter mostly by myself and > it took me two full days. That's right: two full days. It was > announced two days in advance, so i spent an  entire weekend doing it. > I'm a hopeless Internet geek,

[Foundation-l] please announce translations earlier

2011-03-23 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
... And continuing with the previous theme of translation: Please announce the need for translating texts such as surveys, sitenotices, fundraising and long announcements (such as the recent Sue's letter) earlier. MUCH earlier. For quite a lot of languages, even languages with millions of monoling