Polish translations

[Biuro Fornet MK]

Dear Sirs.

I represent Polish company. We start currently a project - kind of
computer helpdesk, where we advice (because of lot of reasons) moving
to Linux to our customners.

While they are in most cases very sceptic about this, your Wine makes
a great help for us. Unfortunately, the English language is still the
biggest barrier for Polish customers.

Thats why we would like to contribute to Wine development and
spreading a "good hope" :) in the way we can afford right now.

I would like to propose:
1. full translation of your WWW page to Polish, and setting this
"localisation" at our www host.server.
2. full translation - or help if anyone started, although i cant find
any note on your site - of Wine software: GUI/API/DOCS/help docs into
Polish.
3. Support for Polish users of Wine; if commercial - divided
fifty/fifty with you - just to support this software.

We can provide for translations work a group of 2 ppl, having both
linguistic skills and Linux/IT knowledge, who can keep this project
going on without the risk of sudden break or cooperation cancell.

Unfortunately they cant do this project exclusively (they must do
company jobs) but we will do our best to supply all we propose.

Looking to hear from you - any time you can answer :)

[Tony Lambregts]

Biuro Fornet MK wrote:
> Dear Sirs.
>
> I represent Polish company. We start currently a project - kind of
> computer helpdesk, where we advice (because of lot of reasons) moving
> to Linux to our customners.
>
> While they are in most cases very sceptic about this, your Wine makes
> a great help for us. Unfortunately, the English language is still the
> biggest barrier for Polish customers.
>
> Thats why we would like to contribute to Wine development and
> spreading a "good hope" :) in the way we can afford right now.
>
> I would like to propose:
> - full translation of your WWW page to Polish, and setting this
>
> "localisation" at our www host.server.

You can browse the source for the main wine site is here:
http://cvs.winehq.org/cvsweb/lostwages/

It should be possible to translate this site and bugzilla as well, both have 
been built with translation in mind the AppDB is much harder and I do not know 
about the wiki.

export CVSROOT=:pserver:[e-mail]:/home/wine
cvs login (password cvs)
cvs checkout lostwages

Mail patches to:[e-mail] with the prefix [LOSTWAGES] so the 
website maintainer can easily see them.
> - full translation - or help if anyone started, although i cant find
>
> any note on your site - of Wine software: GUI/API/DOCS/help docs into
> Polish.

2.1 I think you get more bang for you buck with this stuff. Translating the 
documentation (at least the users guide and FAQ) is a good idea.

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[e-mail]:/cvsroot/wine co -P docs

When prompted for a password press the enter key. A subdirectory named docs will 
be created.

Mail patches to:[e-mail] with the prefix [WINEDOCS] so the 
maintainer of the documentation can easily see them.

2.2 Also keeping the resources files (*.rc), for winecfg at the very least, up 
to date would be very much apreciated by Polish users. There is also the README 
in the root of wine.

export CVSROOT=:pserver:[e-mail]:/home/wine
cvs login (password cvs)
cvs checkout wine.

[snip stuff about customer support]

I would start with translating the documentation and resource files before 
tackling the web site(s) but that is up to you.

--

Tony Lambregts