On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 03:15:59PM -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 11:22 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > Right! So here's another question for you: how do we make things > easier? And I don't mean just getting the model right (i.e. DVCS as a > mechanism) but also keeping things super-easy to use? > > Here's a completely crazy idea: do an "online" translation activity that > uses google gears on the backend that lets people do their work offline > and then can sync up when it's done? That way anyone on > linux/windows/mac can participate and they can get hooked directly up to > web services we have in place? > > That's outside of our comfort zone, but it's not completely crazy. Our > work has to be about enabling people so that working with us and the > rest of the open source community is easy easy easy. It's far from completely crazy. Ubuntu's got a program whereby, when running an app, you can click "I want to re-translate this string, or this page" and up pops their translation tool / web app. -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com
