On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:59:42AM +0200, Juan Miguel Ramirez wrote:
First I want to thank you (developers, translators, designers, etc) for your brilliant effort to improve Inkscape.
I'm a designer, member of differents free software associations like Iniciativa Focus http://www.iniciativafocus.org or Linux-Malaga http://www.linux-malaga.org who some time ago chose to bet for free software like present and future on the world of graphic's design. Until now i only have contributed to the inkscape's community with some works and designs and some presentations and workshops around Spain: 2? Jornadas Tecnol?gicas Andaluzas de Software Libre http://jtasl.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=99(How to begin to design with free software: Inkscape and Gimp), Congreso Hispalinux 2005 http://congreso.hispalinux.es(Collaborative design with Inkscape) and Jornadas de Software Libre de Linux Malaga 2006 http://jornadas.linux-malaga.org (How to begin to vectorial illustration and make websites and corporate identities with Inkscape). Even though i want to promote inkscape on spanish and help with this task.
Excellent, it's great to have you as part of the team! I love your enthusiasm, and you have some great ideas.
This is the cause i want to help not only the project itself but to look for more interested people (there is some volunteers on the spanish's mailing list).
To do all this i need to know who are the people in charge of the differents sections (i think it would be useful to create a section with the differents names and mails to contact them) and begin to coordinate with them on how we can do all this. (some sections like galleries, screenshots, some tutorials, presentations,etc are already made)
Below I've indicated some contact people for the areas.
An org chart actually probably isn't worth doing for Inkscape, since we don't really formalize roles; instead roles are defined mainly by who has the time and interest and is doing the work. Thus, roles change pretty fluidly, so an org chart would become out of date quickly.
I would to do it officially through the website because do it apart it would harmful for all and this is all i propose:
- Translate the entire website (there is some parts without translations): o Translate all the news (old an new) o Translate the FAQ o Translate all the documentation (nowdays there is only translated the tutorials that comes with the program) o Translate Tools Section
For the main website, I'm probably the best contact person. For questions and plans about translating it, we don't have a specific contact person, but inkscape-translator@ would be the place to ask.
- Translate the interface (nowdays it is at 100% but i think the new version has going to have new terms)
Arpad has been the primary contact for this, although I think there are probably others on inkscape-translator@ who are more familiar with the new terms.
- Translate the mailing list(there is a spanish's mailing list but when you, for example, have to register all the messages are on english)
This is being worked on presently.
- Generate new content for the website: o Create new tutorials
Scislac or Bulia
o Create a planet inkscape on spanish
Jon Philips
o Insert new screenshots
Scislac
o Insert new elements into the gallery (illustrations, designs, etc)
Me
- Improve Inkscape's website trying to do it more autonomous on certain aspect (for example users can upload new designs, news,etc even though has to be supervised by another)
We don't really have a contact person for this, but I can help you gain access if you want to work on it.
Bryce