[UbuntuWomen] UW Wiki translations, We need your Help!

[Amber Graner]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Melissa Weber Mendonca <melissawm at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Em Terça-feira 30 Março 2010, às 01:18:46, idleone escreveu:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I don't think I ever introduced myself to the list. My name is John and
> > I have been a part of the ubuntu-women team for a short time. I am
> > mostly active in #ubuntu-women and #ubuntu-women-project.
> >
> > With the help and push on the back I needed from pleia2 and elky. I
> > decided to begin translating wiki.ubuntu-women.org to French so that the
> > project can better include non English speaking women and men to
> > contribute.
> >
> > I would like to invite you all to start translating the UW wiki into
> > your own native tongue and start spreading the word.
> >
> > Links to help you get started:
> > http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/
> > http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Translators
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiGuide
> >
> > P.S. I am. Because you are!
> >
> > IdleOne
>
>
> This is indeed a great idea and I'll also "use" this thread to introduce
> myself, if I may...
>
> My name is Melissa, I'm from Brazil and I'm an applied mathematician. I
> just
> came back from Belgium where I was getting my PhD and now I'm back to the
> university where I did my undergrad and masters studies to try and be a
> teacher here. Right now I'm a post-doc.
>
> I've been using Linux for the past 10 years at least, I've used several
> distros (Slackware, Red Hat, Fedora, Mandrake, Contectiva, Mandriva,
> Suse/OpenSuse... you get the point) but I've been using Ubuntu since Hoary
> or
> Warty (never remember which came first) and I've been a lurker on this list
> for quite some time :) The main reason that I never contributed before is
> that
> the events always seem to be taking place so far away from me that I don't
> feel like I can contribute something to the discussion... Plus, since I've
> been studying like crazy the last 10 years of my life I'm just now starting
> to
> have the time to be able to really contribute regularly.
>
> I've been doing some Ubuntu translations into Brazilian Portuguese (not too
> many, I'm afraid) but your initiative seems excellent for us, since I know
> for
> a fact there are so many women who contribute to Ubuntu and Linux in
> general
> in Brazil and who do not necessarily speak good english. Besides, Brazil
> sorely lacks any kind of incentives for women to join tech/science related
> groups. Since Ubuntu is growing in popularity here, this would be great I
> think for us and for Ubuntu.
>
> So if I can, I'd like to join in on the translations for Brazilian
> Portuguese
> and try to maybe get more people to join the group :)
>
> Thanks and see you around,
>
> Melissa
>
> Welcome Melissa!
Thanks so much for the introduction and for volunteering to help with this
project.
:-) Amber


> p.s. I'm sometimes on irc as melissawm, but it's really hard to catch
> someone
> alive on the channel at non-working hours at GMT-3 :(
>
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