<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:14px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425746395794_5751" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425746395794_7859">Yes. We must welcome any individual who can spend time in contributing to OpenStack community.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425746395794_5751" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425746395794_5751" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425746395794_7861">Regards,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425746395794_5751" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425746395794_7862">Chandrakant Dhutadmal.</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425746395794_5750"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425746395794_5747"> <div style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425746395794_5746"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425746395794_5745"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425746395794_5749"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425746395794_5748"> On Saturday, March 7, 2015 12:28 PM, Tom Fifield <tom@openstack.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425746395794_5744">Thanks for the detailed information. It looks like everything is under<br clear="none">control and we definitely we appreciate the efforts and want to assist<br clear="none">you in any way possible.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">We have had translations contributed by an "organisation" rather than a<br clear="none">"collection of individuals" before (eg IBM kick-started several<br clear="none">languages), so it's no real problem in most cases. We're just friendly<br clear="none">people who want to get to know other language lovers if possible :) Of<br clear="none">course, if it's a freelance translator writing the words, we can<br clear="none">completely understand that they may not want to take the time to fully<br clear="none">join the OpenStack community.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">However, those that are able to are very, very welcome :)<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Regards,<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Tom<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 06/03/15 12:00, chandrakant dhutadmal wrote:<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Hello All.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Ok. Let me clarify this. C-DAC as an organization has undertaken<br clear="none">> localization of various softwares with the help of freelancers/ in-house<br clear="none">> translators. This has been done in a non-community driven way. I should<br clear="none">> also let you all know that getting people on-board for languages like<br clear="none">> Bodo, Sindhi, Santali, Dogri, etc is very very difficult as its<br clear="none">> difficult to find many of them in India/ World. <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> As Sankarshan assumes and by now he knows that, I am more into providing<br clear="none">> help and mentorship to people who are the actual translators. I made<br clear="none">> this thing clear to other project lists also. <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I personally feel, upstream contributions to the project are more<br clear="none">> important than the mechanism of generating the contributed resources.<br clear="none">> Also, when someone as an individual or organization does the<br clear="none">> contribution, it is within the bounds of the project (accepting whatever<br clear="none">> licences/ terms and conditions of the project are)<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> It should be safely assumed by the group that once there are other<br clear="none">> people / organizations who wants to contribute to the project, I will be<br clear="none">> concentrating on my native language i.e Marathi and handover my rights<br clear="none">> to the new team. <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Lastly, I will also try to ask the actual members to join the mailing<br clear="none">> list and introduce themselves. Please feel free to provide your inputs<br clear="none">> on this subject matter.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Regards,<br clear="none">> Chandrakant Dhutadmal.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> On Friday, March 6, 2015 10:41 AM, Tom Fifield <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:tom@openstack.org" href="mailto:tom@openstack.org">tom@openstack.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> On 04/03/15 15:17, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:<br clear="none">>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Tom Fifield <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:tom@openstack.org" href="mailto:tom@openstack.org">tom@openstack.org</a><br clear="none">> <mailto:<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:tom@openstack.org" href="mailto:tom@openstack.org">tom@openstack.org</a>>> wrote:<br clear="none">>>> I have created the following languages and made you a coordinator:<br clear="none">>>> Assamese, Bodo, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Maithili, Sindhi .<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> At some point it would be nice to have the contributors for these<br clear="none">>> languages introducing themselves. My assumption is that Chandrakant is<br clear="none">>> providing leadership and mentoring to a group who would be the actual<br clear="none">>> contributors sustaining and maintaining the UI translations across the<br clear="none">>> releases.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Indeed, that was my assumption as well. It would be nice to meet the<br clear="none">> people and allow them to have a profile and feel like rewarded members<br clear="none">> of our community too :)<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> Openstack-i18n mailing list<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Openstack-i18n@lists.openstack.org" href="mailto:Openstack-i18n@lists.openstack.org">Openstack-i18n@lists.openstack.org</a><br clear="none">> <mailto:<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Openstack-i18n@lists.openstack.org" href="mailto:Openstack-i18n@lists.openstack.org">Openstack-i18n@lists.openstack.org</a>><div class="yqt4749306716" id="yqtfd79406"><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-i18n" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-i18n</a><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>