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Real name: Andrej Žnidaršič (https://launchpad.net/~andrej-znidarsic)

• Member of Ubuntu Slovenian Translators group in launchpad since 2007-05-06, became a coordinator of Slovenian launchpad translation group in the beginning of May 2010.

• Translator and Reviewer of GNOME packages - http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/sl/

• Member of ubuntu.si, Slovenian forum for Ubuntu users (nickname andrejZ) where I offer support and try to help slovenian linux users. I also participate on #ubuntu-si on freenode.
• Author of news about Ubuntu, Linux and Open Source on web-page ubuntu.si
• Email: andrej (dot) znidarsic (at) gmail (dot) com
• IRC: andrejz on freenode

Activities

• Translations in launchpad ( see https://launchpad.net/~andrej-znidarsic/+karma ) - currently with karma close to 10 000.

• Translations in Gnome translation project (I have translated about 110 open source packages with about 30000 strings in total - all together some 470 commits - for detailed statistics, please see http://cia.vc/stats/author/andrej.znidarsic)

• Currently participating in a first big revision of all gnome translation packages to be compliant with newly accepted vocabulary. Vocabulary has been changing since the begging of the translation effort around 2000, but now it has more or less stabilized (look at the vocabulary in the future plans section). The goal is to finish the revision and correction before the release of gnome 3.0 and thus ubutnu 10.10. As of 2010-07-02 180 packages have been reviewed and 110 are remaining.

• During last 12 months I have written over 100 pieces of news about Ubuntu, Linux and open-source at Slovenian Ubuntu website ubuntu.si (http://www.ubuntu.si/punbb/user/547/) to promote interest in opensource and drive traffic to the webpage

• Recently became launchpad Slovenian translation group coordinator (May 2010)
• Promoting use of Ubuntu in the local community and with friends (made about 10 installations of Ubuntu on other people's computers, for some of them I still offer occasional support).
• Often on #ubuntu-si on freenode.net offering my advice to users.

Future plans

• Establish a system of quality control of Slovenian translators group.
  • It turned out that most translators weren't aware of the guidelines. So we have put some emphasis on the guidelines and people have started taking note of them.
  • Changed translators wiki page with more emphasis on the upstream as many translators weren't aware that it existed. There is also an explanation about the lifespan of translations and contact information about all three major translation groups. Promote work and cooperation with upstream to increase the manpower of upstream teams.
  • Created a Jabber chat room to easily coordinate work and discuss translations.
  • Splited the translation group into translation team (less experienced translators) and quality assurance. All strings translated by the translation team are reviewed by quality assurance, which takes note of common mistakes and informs the translators, so they can improve faster.
• Improve coordination with upstream.
  • Organized a (in person) meeting with translation coordinators of Gnome, KDE, Ubuntu and other translators on 2010-05-12. There we decided how to handle conflicts when translating packages. As this was a great success we decided to meet about once per month.
  • Second meeting 2010-06-10 - less people due to exam period, but still discussed some interesting topics.
  • Next meeting is going to be on 2010-07-07 where we are going to take part in meeting of LUGOS (Linux User Group of Slovenia). We plan to do some translation advocacy and discuss various other linux and opensource related projects.
• Accept a common vocabulary when translation certain items, both within and outside the launchpad group and synchronize translations.

  • We have a vocabulary accepted here https://wiki.lugos.si/slovenjenje:pojmovnik together with gnome translation group. Vocabulary is getting constantly updated (currently about 30-50 strings are added per month) and will include more contributions/discussions from KDE soon.

• Motivate and guide launchpad Ubuntu translators to improve both quantity and quality of translations of new users.

Testimonials

Andrej is one of those guys you just want to have on your team. Thanks to his contribution to the Slovenian translation project, Slovene quickly became one of among the most widely translated languages in the world. A self-starter, he is always eager to learn, co-operate and work for the benefit of the team, which are the qualities every coordinator looks for. He quickly fit in and showed a thorough understanding of the team’s policies as well as other, less obvious, but equally important aspects of team work.

He recently took over the co-ordination of the Slovenian Launchpad Team, a much more challenging and responsible task, which I am positive he will be up to. His enthusiasm makes us all work even harder.

-- Matej Urbančič (gnome translation coordinator for Slovenian language)