[Mageia-i18n] [French + English Teams] Translation of Mageia.Org statutes

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2011/1/29 Rémi Verschelde <rverschelde at gmail.com>:
> 2011/1/25 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>:
>> Anne has laid down the official text of the Statutes of the Mageia.Org
>> Association in the wiki:
>> http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=mageia_org_statutes
>>
> [...]
>>
>> For this task I'd like the French and English teams to work together,
>> the French because of their better understanding of the legal
>> mumbo-jumbo, the English for correct transfer to the English language.
>> Special French names of laws and/or public institutions should remain
>> in French with an English equivalent (if needed).
>>
>
> I will start translating the statutes tomorrow. Since there are 17
> articles, it could be useful to split the work between the
> translators.
> Let's say I will translate from article 1 to article 7 included (I'll
> go on if nobody translates the rest, but I'd like some help, I don't
> have that much free time); if others start translating the articles 8
> to 17, please reply to this mail so that we don't translate the same
> parts twice.
>
> As Wolfgang said, the initial work should be done by i18n-fr, and we
> will need proofreaders from i18n-en. It would be nice so to have
> proofreaders from both teams, for there can be mistranslations that
> the French-speaking will spot out or language-specific terms that the
> English-speaking will use.

Great! Thx for your initiative Rémi!

May I suggest to do the work in the wiki? Like:

 - create a page 'mageia.org_statutes_en'
 - put a FIXME tag on top (or "Work in progress" in bold)
 - copy the French text to it and then start translating

Doing so, leave the French text intact and write the translation of
each chapter below the French - this will make it easy for
proofreaders and fellow translators.

-- 
wobo