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Website: Code of Conduct is official
by Maren Hachmann 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

Dear fellow website translators, Inkscape's Code of Conduct is now finally official - which means we can start translating it :) Find the English page here: https://inkscape.org/en/community/coc/ Smaller changes might be made in the future (it's not written in stone), I'll keep you up to date :) Kind regards + happy translating, Maren

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Website: New news!
by Maren Hachmann 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Dear website translators, we've got a new news item on our website, about Inkscape's Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement with the Software Freedom Conservancy. translation link: https://inkscape.org/news/2015/11/08/new-fsa-with-software-freedom-conserva… Thank you very much + happy translating, Kind Regards, Maren

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[PATCH] Typos in the current trunk code
by Yuri Chornoivan 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

Hi, There are minor typos in the current code. They can be fixed (just in messages) by the patch attached to this message. Thanks in advance for reviewing and pushing into the repo. Best regards, Yuri

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Website: New Extensions Page
by Maren Hachmann 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

Dear website translators, we've got a new page on our website, written by Martin Owens, which gives some basic information about how to write an extension: https://inkscape.org/en/develop/extensions/ Because of the new page, there are also a few other changes that need to be made: - our community to-do list required an update (I've already done this for all languages that have one - relax ;) ) - the Develop page needs a small update https://inkscape.org/en/develop/ (see attachment, link deletions are not in the diff) Thanks everyone for your work! Kind regards, Maren

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Icelandic translation
by Sveinn í Felli 21 Oct '15

21 Oct '15

Hi, Just reported in the bugtracker two updated po-files for Icelandic, one for trunk and the other for 0.91-branch; both based on the current .pot files this morning. Would be great if somebody could commit them. Sveinn í Felli <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1426423> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1426423/+attachment/4501746/+files…> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1426423/+attachment/4501747/+files…>

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Website / Everyone: Translation status overview pages online
by Maren Hachmann 30 Sep '15

30 Sep '15

Hi translators, jazzynico has prepared two new web pages for our website, where you can see the current status of translations for everything directly connected to the Inkscape program (UI, Tutorials, man page, key&mouse reference): https://inkscape.org/doc/devel/translations-statistics-091.html https://inkscape.org/doc/devel/translations-statistics-trunk.html These pages do not require translation ;) (and can't be translated via our cms, anyway.) But I've linked them from https://inkscape.org/en/contribute/translations/ so if you have translated that page (or copied it to your language), please update, so others can find this cool info, too :D I've also made another tiny change on that same page, see attached screenshots. Thanks a lot and happy translating! Kind regards, Maren

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Web-based translation platform for Inkscape UI?
by Eduard Braun 24 Sep '15

24 Sep '15

Hi all, I'm wondering for some time now why Inkscape does not use some sort of web-based translation platform (like Transifex or Crowdin, maybe even Launchpad's integrated localization capabilities)? In fact it would make translation work /much/ easier and probably even reduce the administrative work to update the source. Right now it's almost impossible to collaborate with translations since there is no easy way to synchronize work and it often goes down like this: * Translator 1 works on his local version of the .po file * Translator 2 works on his local version of the .po file in parallel * Developer 1 decides there are some errors in all .po files and replaces them in the source .po file while synchronizing them with the current .pot file. ...and before you know it there are three different versions of the translation - based on different .pot versions - which are almost impossible to merge (or read: would take a huge amount of valuable volunteer time to merge). Therefore my question: Why don't we use a system where every translator/developer can actually always work with the latest translation files and submit his/her work immediately? This would save a huge amount of administration effort and therefore leave much more time to actually work on content! Best Regards, Eduard --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Website: New news article - Board election results
by Maren Hachmann 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

Dear website translators, we've got a new news :) The results from the Inkscape Board elections are finally out! I'm not going to add a spoiler here - see for yourself and don't forget to translate ;) : https://inkscape.org/en/news/2015/09/17/two-new-members-on-the-inkscape-boa… Thanks, everyone! Kind regards, Maren

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Introducing myself
by Sylvain Chiron 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

Hello to the Inkscape translators' team. I was previously an Inkscape user, using the software to make diagrams with a very customized style. Then I was not satisfied of the features I used and I questionned myself about the ergonomy. Finally (after months of occasional usage), I decided to discover what the community was doing. On the website, one of my first notices was that the website is only partly translated. However, it's not cool when the website shows in your browser's language and you don't have content unless you have this miraculous idea to show the English version. As I am not used to tell people that they must work, I wanted to do the work myself; I already translated parts of the website in my mother-language (which is French). I had already liked to translate software (without coordinating with anyone), and I am a student in computing technology. I am nearly 20, and I practise computer programming since I've been 12 in an association in Bordeaux. So I may even touch the code one day. Also, I would certainly love developing a passion for vector graphics since I find a nice mathematic sense in it: it is able to explain things with rigour and precision, and to be nice to the eyes. I like brilliant pictures but my current very first interest is in pedagogy and information. A few ads here: * you can see this website I'm making with a cousin to present his art: http://www.abstractluminary.com/ (that is ‘brilliant’) * I'm implied in two French associations that teach science: http://www.jeunes-science.asso.fr/ and computer science: http://www.france-ioi.org/ (that is ‘pedadogy and information’) Last, I never promote software that's not open source (I even avoid to promote non-copyleft soft). Then I think Inkscape can be very interesting for me. As I was translating pages on the website, Martin and Maren (the website administrator and the translators' leader if I remember well) told me I need to inform you what choices I make in the translations. So here are the choices. So here are some choices/changes I already began to apply, or I think they should be applied: 1. For an end-user system, I prefer saying GNU/Linux rather than Linux. It was already called ‘GNU/Linux’ in the English page Download > GNU/Linux, so I also used this name at other places instead of only Linux. You may see here what that means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy 2. For most controversed typography conventions, follow Wikipedia: * 32-bit rather than 32bit; * Red Hat (or RHEL?) instead of Redhat; * APT and Yum instead of apt and yum; * openSUSE instead of OpenSUSE; * … (see as I'm picky — ;)) Of course, you may suggest other conventions if you have arguments. (You might try to convince the Wikipedia community before.) Question: Is it possible to translate ‘Draw Freely.’ and ‘Follow us on:’ in the website header? French-specific choices/discussions: 1. Accordez-vous avec Wikipédia aussi ! N'oubliez pas d'utiliser /toujours/ les bons guillemets : « », de mettre les espaces avant les symboles de ponctuation à deux composantes (ce qui ne se fait pas en anglais). Pour les architectures, on écrit « 32 bits ». 2. Pas de majuscules à chaque mot dans les titres comme c'est fait en anglais. De mon expérience, c'est généralement une recherche compliquée et désagréable en français. On se contentera généralement d'une majuscule au début et aux noms propres. 3. « Vue d'ensemble » (traduction d'‘Overview’) ne se dit pas trop en français ; je l'ai laissé dans la page À propos, mais dans la page enfant, j'ai préféré utiliser Présentation. J'ai fait d'autres choix que vous pourrez voir en visitant la version française ; libre à vous de proposer autre chose ; je serai certainement moi-même amené à revenir sur certains nommages. 4. Aussi : Télécharger plutôt que Téléchargement. C'est plus sympa d'utiliser un verbe quand c'est possible, car ça encourage le visiteur à agir, plutôt qu'à être spectateur ; et ça lui correspond mieux quand il veut déjà agir. 5. Pour les bugs, je parle généralement de « bogues » à la québécoise — j'apprécie peu les anglicismes (pourtant, Wikipédia dit « bugs » !). On peut aussi parler de problèmes et de défauts. 6. Importez les contenus anglais même sans les traduire. Comme je l'ai dit en intro de mon courriel, mieux vaut avoir du contenu non traduit que de ne pas voir le contenu… Ainsi, j'ai importé des pages que j'ai lasisées en anglais. J'imagine n'est pas forcément naturel pour un visiteur de regarder le site dans une autre langue pour avoir plus de détails ! 7. J'ai vu que la FAQ est peu traduite et ce qui est traduit l'est sans rigueur (dans le rythme et l'orthotypo). Soyez précis car j'aime vraiment que tout soit parfait, et relire une page juste pour corriger la typographie, ce n'est pas super passionnant (même si je le fais très souvent sur Wikipédia et d'autres plateformes collaboratives). Here are my first remarks. Tell what you think and what you plan; I will continue for the French website. See you soon, -- Sylvain

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Website: FAQ edit
by Maren Hachmann 11 Sep '15

11 Sep '15

Dear translators, Brynn has just added a little more info into our FAQ, see screenshot for the change. https://inkscape.org/en/learn/faq/#Viewing_SVG_files,_outside_of_Inkscape_(… Thanks everyone, and welcome, Sylvain - it seems we've got a new French translator! Kind regards, Maren

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