Open Source Geospatial Foundation Press release translations

[Arnulf Christl]

Hi all.

Please notice: I have frozen the Press release page in order to prevent 
unsolicited changes. Only WikiSysops can lock and unlock pages. 
Currently only Benjamin Thelen (our SysAdmin) and I can do this. I would 
like to give all board members plus DanielB WikiSysop privileges. Comments?

Could this get us going for the translations? Please comment.

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Hello,
the Open Source Geospatial Foundation is starting to go alive and we 
need a press release. To reflect the international scope and the 
community leverage that it alread now has we invite you to join in 
translating the press release to whichever language is your favourite. 
Your contribution will have to be honorary but we would very much like 
you to put your name underneath to pronounce the meritocratic character 
of the Foundation.

There is a tricky bit in it also. We believe that you as representatives 
of your language and culture might want to add an additional paragraph 
underneath whats already there adding information that applies to your 
local situation that we would never be able to have an insight into.

It might also be a valuable suggestion to propose setting up local 
chapters of the OSGeo. These chapters could start off as community 
driven initiatives which - after proving to be alive and resourceful - 
can request to be set up as individual projects inside the OSGeo 
infrastructure (which is the CollabNet environment).

To start off with low overhead we have set up an interim Wiki that 
allows for multiple users to change content easily. Please go to this 
URL to get started:
http://www.fossgis.de/osgeo/index.php/Talk:Proposed_Press_Release

The original press release text has already been copied to your language 
versions, please simply translate it there. Please notice that every 
change that you ever do in this Wiki is recorded in the history. The 
history cannot be undone. Nonetheless please adhere to the basic rule of 
Wiki editing: Be bold.

Once you are done please give us a notice so that we can also freeze the 
different language versions. After that the page cannot be edited unless 
a Wiki System Operator (OSGeo Fodunation board member) is requested to 
unlock the page. This will ensure that the press release text is not 
modified by unsolicited people.

If you have questions regarding this process or technology feel free to 
contact the board members.

With best regards,
the interim Board of Directors

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All,
to get started I would suggest the following people as initial 
translation group:

Mori Toru <moritoru at orkney.co.jp>
Daniel Kastl <mail at daniel-kastl.de>
Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se>
Rafael Medeiros Sperb <rsperb at univali.br>
Christoph Baudson <christoph.baudson at ccgis.de>
Adam Luks <adam.luks at ccgis.de>


Markus, could you please add the emails of:

Paolo Cavallini
Moritz Lennert

could you suggest others? Ideally we would have a reviwe group for every 
language in order to make sure that the quality of the translation is good.