Yaron
About Me
I am living in China and I am a complete Linux fan. I love the free software spirit and want to share it with more and more people all over the world. I choose Ubuntu as my desktop OS because it is easy-to-use and I can get involved with its community much easier than others. I live in Israel, I really like open source and I am very interested in linguistics. I do my best to spread Linux using my personal and business connections. My main Operating system is Ubuntu although I contribute to other operating systems.
Contact
Email: <sh.yaron AT SPAMFREE gmail DOT com>
IRC: Yaron-Heb (irc.freenode.net) - #ubuntu-il, ##linux-il #archlinux-il
ICQ: 50385984
WLM: dr_y@hotmail.com
Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~sh-yaron
Location: Yuvalim, Israel (UTC +0200)
Summary of contributions to Ubuntu
Ive started translating Ubuntu long before I started using it. Since I was into software translation for many years and I really liked the idea of open source I translated open source software before I was able to use it (I had some applications that needed a proprietary Operating System. After being involved in the translation of Ubuntu for about a year I became the Hebrew translation team leader, few months later I got my permissions to commit translations to GNOME and ever since I do my best to sync translations with upstream or translate upstream only when possible.
Now working as
Wine and the Wine Website translator to Hebrew
Leader of Ubuntu Hebrew Translators team
Ubuntu Israel LoCo team member
Ubuntu-RTL bug squad member
MediaWiki translator
Fedora translator
Lots of other projects, some appear here and some others here.
Currently focus on
- Setting some standards for open source translation while supporting Hebrew translators.
Writing some explanation documents to a project I established called Gezer Project (Hebrew).
Future Plan
- Promote open source usage at the Israeli education system.
- Help deal with RTL problems.
- Reaching more Israeli translators and developers to help develop Ubuntu.