Feature Freeze entails: Translators create translations.
Which is the template to be used as a reference for the translations ? The one included in the inkscape-0.48pre0.tar.gz archive is ok to be used ? (date of file: 23.05.2010)
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InterfaceTranslation#Get_the_PO_file... but the two POT files listed there are almost two years old. Try this one http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/annotate/head%3A/po...
IMHO I think you should put a statistics page where the statistics are updated and you can directly download the POT file. Like that http://mfloryan.statnet.pl/~mfloryan/inkscape/index.html but with the link to the latest POT file and with a little text that explains how to contribute, like this one http://www.poedit.net/translations.php for example.