Translations Community Advocacy

Registered by David Planella

Raise awareness on the global Ubuntu Translations community, focusing first within the Ubuntu community. Ensure the Ubuntu translations process and the work of Ubuntu translation teams is widely known.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Jono Bacon
Priority:
High
Drafter:
David Planella
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
David Planella
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for maverick
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon ubuntu-10.10
Started by
Jono Bacon
Completed by
David Planella

Related branches

Sprints

Whiteboard

Work items for maverick-alpha-1:
[akgraner] Prepare a set of questions for a series of interviews with local translation team coordinators, and send it to dpm for the first review: DONE
[dpm] Review the interview questions and prioritize the first 10 teams to send the interview to: DONE
[dpm] Send an e-mail to translators announcing the interviews: DONE

Work items for maverick-alpha-2:
[dpm] Write a blog post encouraging translation teams on how to blog about translations and with instructions on how to prepare blog posts for UWN: DONE

Work items for maverick-alpha-3:
[andregondim] Write the first blog post translated into English and publish it on the Planet and UWN: DONE
[dpm] Regular blogging on Ubuntu translation aspects on the Ubuntu Planet. Prepare a series of biweekly articles: DONE

Work items for ubuntu-10.10-beta:
[dpm] Embrace the forums community. Regular posting on Translations on the Ubuntu forums: DONE

Session notes:

* Promoting the Ubuntu Translations project
- Newsletter

Idea: every team to blog about their efforts, weekly, 4-weekly. The blog posts can highlight:
 * Work done
 * Areas where help is needed in translations

- Interviews

- Podcasts
 - OMG
 - Ubuntu UK
 - WorksWithU
  - Full Circle Magazine/Podcast

- Suggestion to stay in touch with them

- Competitions

- Statistics

- Full circle

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Work Items