Let's get to know each other!

[Gianvacca]

Hello, everybody!

Lately we had several new entries in this group, but they've been
extremely silent. But I'd really like to know something about you:
what's your name? where are you from? how did you know about us? why
did you join? what are the skills you want to lend us? what are your
expectations?

Of course there's no need to answer all the questions and in this
order, but this would help make us a group, don't you think?

I will then update our member list.

Also, did you have a look at our translation interface?
http://l10n.ipclinuxos.com/
Any questions?

Hope to hear from you soon,
Alessio

[Sándor Lisovszki]

Ok!

Let's see ::)

My name is Sandor Lisovszki, I leave in Hungary, my frien is Zoltan Hoppar, we are the Hungaryan translation, and the development team :D :D :D. I make, made remasters like PCe17OS, that is my idea, and etc.etc....

It's ok Alessio? :)

2008/11/15 Gianvacca <alessi...@gmail.com>

[Zoltan Hoppar]

Hi Alessio

My name is Zoltan Hoppar, known as 'Zoltan' from mypclinuxos. - I'm living in Győr, Hungary. I made the first contact with devnet at mypclinuxos to get permission to begin the Hu translation/localization of PCLinuxOS 07. I'm founder, and at the beginning head of the Pclos.hu site, witch is now - currently owned by a small community group with around 3-400 registered members; but the core is only 8 member. Lisovsky, me are translators - others are: few programmers, one wiki editor, one admin for 3 sites: pclos.hu - LinuxEmpire.hu - and for our LE blog. We got 3 small business company who supports us. We are tryin' to pull more and more people to use linux, getting know about it, and giving support to it - spreading the word - therefore we are making presentations for beginners and professionals (for business people) also at schools with primarily Pclos 07, and most of the remasters (minime, tinyme, tinyflux) all around in cities of Hungary.
We are trying to give localization support to Pclos, and their/our remasters - with expectations of learning, possibility of building useful part of a great community for localization assignment, and give localized Pclos for hungarian people.

Zoltan

2008/11/15 Sándor Lisovszki <liso...@gmail.com>

["oliver"<olivierlebreton_at_gmail.com>]

Hi Alessio, Sandor, Everyone,

My name is Oliver. I live in the Netherlands.
If you like to, you can read some more about me in my profile. Like to
get involved in Dutch translation.
Have been using PCLOS for about a year now, after distro-hopping a
dozen or more others for a few month.
Needless to say how much I like it, all my personal and business
machines now run PCLOS; BEL-server, KDE, Gnome, Tinyme, I am not
discriminating and like them all ! I have started saving older boxes
(>PII +)from the scrap-yard, clean them up, possibly add some Ram and
HD space, and let PCLOS liveCD's do their bits of magic. A few have
found their way back to usefulness, the others await and I use for
testing and learning. I share my Linux-enthousiasme freely among
friends, family, neighbours and co-workers. Would like to start a
small Linux school to help beginners take their first step and promote
OpenSource. Wrote my first LPIC101-exam last week at the
LinuxWorld2008 fair in Utrecht (results should be in within few a
weeks), trust and hope I did not do too bad.
Untill later......

[Pierre-Henri RAMBOZ]

Hi

My name is Pierre-Henri Ramboz aka DidouPh

I am french

I've been unvolved in several open source projects since 1999

I basically am a graphic artist but also do i work in sound design and
education thanks to a prety wide knowledge background and curiosity
especially in computer and new technology

At the very moment i have a triple professional commitment as both
grocery shop manager, visual artist and consultant, and finally
computer teacher and educator.

I learned english in a bylingual school and thus proposed my help to
pclos community since p.92 then got involved in several community
projects untill today. Including beautification, santa little helper
and this one. In the past i led a french remaster project which let me
to become co-founder of i18n.

I also host on my servers, various linux projects or ngo and artists
sites.

I have 3 kids and a wife. I'll be 30 in january so i'm pretty happy
that the duty of this project management got handeled by someone else
in the last few month.

My website : http://www.matoilnet.com

Welcome all

Didouph
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Pierre-Henri RAMBOZ
9 rue de la Monnaie
37000 Tours
06 78 02 53 15
Ram...@orange.fr

Le 15 nov. 08 à 08:10, "\"oliver\"<olivierlebreton_at_gmail.com>" <olivier...@gmail.co
m> a écrit :

[David Smid]

Hello,

My name is David Smid (or David Šmíd more properly).

I am 32 years old Czech and I've joined PCLOS community about one year ago.
From the very start I took part in many activities:
I put together Czech PCLinuxOS liveCD,
hunted few PCLinuxOS bugs (most of them related to i18n),
joined Santa's Little Helper and contributed few RPMs
and last but not least I've joined this team to cooperate with others to make
PCLinuxOS really international.

I work as a developer (in Linux environment), I have wife and two children.
I'm currently maintainer of our Pootle (online translation) portal and SVN
repository.

David

[Gianvacca]

I'm still waiting for the rest of the newcomers to introduce
themselves. I'm hopeful.

In the meantime I'll also tell you about me. I'm Alessio, 30 years old
very soon, living close to Milan, Italy. I've always liked computers,
although I studied biotechnology at University, and I've done a PhD in
molecular biology in Leeds (UK). PCLOS has been my first installed
distro (and only one, apart from a brief period with Mepis). I got
linux-enthusiastic and when I came across the localisation project I
thought I could help the community. Unfortunately I didn't know
anything about gettext, intlotool and so on, and at the beginning
another italian guy was giving me the po files to translate. So
basically I translated all the core po files from scratch. How much
time I could have saved by translating on top of mandriva's po
files!!! My god, don't make me remember!

Rule n° 1: Learn from others' mistakes! Before starting something very
tedious, ask if there is a shortcut!

Writing my PhD thesis was very boring for me, and any excuse to do
something else was good. So when I finished with all translations I
had to find something else to translate. That's why I started to learn
about scripting and using gettext inside scripts. This is how the
localization of redo-mbr, mkremaster, liveusb and gtk-liveinstall
started.
Meanwhile, I realised that some knowledge of packaging and makefile
writing was necessary for these projects or for making localisable
versions of some distro packages. It ended up that now I have a rough
knowledge of all these things. I'm telling you this, because I'm the
example to demonstrate that it's not difficult.

Rule n° 2: Everybody can learn! Until 1 year ago I didn't know
anything about Linux and until last spring I didn't even try to learn.
I had just little programming experience with my old MSX basic and
later, during my high school period, with visual basic. Once
everything else is set, I'm planning to write an extensive wiki.

Now I'm working in a bank society, a division which takes care of
those terminals which you use to swipe your credit card and pay for
your shopping (you might be wondering "How comes?!?", but this is a
long story). Not always have I nice working turns (considering that I
have a 1-hour-and-half trip to get there), so forgive me if some weeks
I'm less present than others.

They're building my future house and it will be ready in two years. I
envy didouph a bit, now that I discovered we have the same age but
he's already set, with a wife and even three kids! Congratulations!
But this also means that this project has two years to squeeze
everything from me, than my time availability might change. That's why
I'm eager to share with you everything I can during this time we'll
spend together.

I don't want to here anymore that this project is dead.

;-)

[Ramboz Pierre-Henri]

i don't have a house yet :p

2008/11/17 Gianvacca <alessi...@gmail.com>

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