<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hi everyone.</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">With the upcoming </span>Documentation String Freeze<span style="font-size:12.8px"> [1] upon us, we are now entering the last stretch of the Wily Werewolf cycle and it goes without saying how important it is to make one last effort.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">Our last translating focus are the </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">package</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">s that are used by Xubuntu and provide essential features to the Xubuntu experience [2].</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">With the translation of these packages, we'll manage to make the base system immediately more usable for more people:</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style=""><ul style="font-size:12.8px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#1155cc"><u><a href="https://translations.launchpad.net/catfish-search" target="_blank">https://translations.launchpad.net/catfish-search</a></u></font><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#1155cc"><u><a href="https://translations.launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings/" target="_blank">https://translations.launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings/</a></u></font><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#1155cc"><u><a href="https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/" target="_blank">https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/</a></u></font></li></ul><font color="#1155cc"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></font></div><div style=""><span style="font-size:12.8px">If you've never contributed a translation before and your native language is not English but you have really good English skills and are comfortable using software in English, you can make a huge contribution by helping to translate the Xubuntu applications into your native language.</span><font color="#1155cc"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></font></div><div style=""><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size:12.8px">Again, and </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">before you start translating, besides recommending everyone to join the Ubuntu-translators mailing list [3] to keep up with notifications about important translation template updates and to stay in touch with other Ubuntu translators, </span><u style="font-size:12.8px">we strongly ask you to have a thorough read of the Xubuntu Translation Guidelines [4] wiki page</u><span style="font-size:12.8px">, which outlines our guidelines and conventions.</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Cheers,</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">David Pires (slickymaster)</span><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/slickymaster" rel="nofollow" link="external" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(85,26,139);font-size:1em">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/slickymaster</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px">Xubuntu Documentation Lead</div></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size:12.8px">[1] <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/ReleaseSchedule">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/ReleaseSchedule</a></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size:12.8px">[2] <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Processes/Documentation">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Processes/Documentation</a></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size:12.8px">[3] <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators</a></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size:12.8px">[4] <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/DeveloperDocumentation/TranslationGuidelines">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/DeveloperDocumentation/TranslationGuidelines</a></span></div></div>