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<div class="" id="magicdomid2"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5">Hello Xubuntu
contributors and users all around the world!</span></div>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid4"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5">As you might know,
we have somewhat recently rewritten most of our documentation.
The work to improve the documentation has continued this cycle
as well.</span></div>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid8"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5">Apart from
content, we have made some progress on the technical side, and
we're happy to tell you that the documentation is now
translatable (since quite some time) but also that we will ship
the translated documentation with Xubuntu! In addition to the
documentation, our installer slideshow is also updated and needs
new translations.</span></div>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid10"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5">This is where we
need you to step in.</span></div>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid12"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5">TRANSLATING THE
XUBUNTU DOCUMENTATION AND INSTALLER SLIDESHOW</span></div>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid258"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5">To get started
with translating the Xubuntu documentation, you will need to
have a registered Launchpad account. After you have set that up,
go to the appropriate translation page in Launchpad:</span></div>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid291"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5">Documentation: </span><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5 url"><a
href="https://translations.launchpad.net/xubuntu-docs">https://translations.launchpad.net/xubuntu-docs</a></span></div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid313"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5">Installer
slideshow: </span><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5 url"><a
href="https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/+pots/ubiquity-slideshow-xubuntu">https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/+pots/ubiquity-slideshow-xubuntu</a></span></div>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid83"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5">Before you do
translations, you will need to remember some guidelines:</span></div>
<div class="" id="magicdomid23"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5"> – If you are
unsure about a translation, you can either suggest a translation
or leave it untranslated</span></div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid84"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5"> – GUI labels
and application names should always be actual labels, not free
translations</span></div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid91"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5"> – Always
follow the Ubuntu Translators instructions [1]</span></div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid48"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5"> – There might
be some guidelines and commonly used terms in your language
team, you should adhere to them</span></div>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid359"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5">You are ready to
start translating!</span></div>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid27"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5">DEADLINES AND
CUT-OFFS</span></div>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid378"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5">The deadline for
translations is April 3rd. This leaves us enough time to land
the new package upload with the updated translation to make it
to the final 14.04 release. Furthermore, the translation cut-off
percentage for the documentation is 80%; only translations with
80% or more translated strings will be shipped.</span></div>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid31"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5">We acknowledge
this is a tight schedule, especially for the complete Xubuntu
documentation. However, we do think that it is completely
possibly to do it in the time given especially if multiple
people per language start working on a translation. Ultimately,
nothing is in vain: We will be updating the packages with our
point releases. This gives you a full six months to translate
the documentation into your language and get it included with
the first point release of Trusty, 14.04.1, to released in
October.</span></div>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid33"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5">If you have any
questions about translating itself, any technical detail or any
other question related to translations, feel free to be in touch
with us either via </span><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5 padtag
padtag_xubuntu-devel"><a
href="http://pad.ubuntu.com/ep/search?query=xubuntu-devel">#xubuntu-devel</a></span><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5"> on Freenode, or
the Xubuntu developer mailing list [2].</span></div>
<div class="" id="magicdomid34"><br>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid35"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5">Happy translating!</span></div>
<div class="" id="magicdomid36"><br>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid37"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5">On behalf of the
Xubuntu documentation team,</span></div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid388"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5">Pasi Lallinaho</span></div>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid41"><span
class="author-g-2jq5sd47pynz122ziy82">[1] </span><span
class="author-g-2jq5sd47pynz122ziy82 url"><a
href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/</a></span></div>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid40"><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5">[2] </span><span
class="author-g-upcebsbz122zlbkz122z8z122zj5 url"><a
href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a></span><br>
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Pasi Lallinaho (knome) » <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://open.knome.fi/">http://open.knome.fi/</a>
Leader of Shimmer Project and Xubuntu » <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://shimmerproject.org/">http://shimmerproject.org/</a>
Graphic artist, webdesigner, Ubuntu member » <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://xubuntu.org/">http://xubuntu.org/</a></pre>
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