[Soci SLIP] GLM nei guai

Iron Bishop ironbishop a fsfe.org
Gio 22 Gen 2009 10:59:13 CET


GNULinuxMatters è nei guai. Olivier ci ha messo soldi, ma non è riuscito a far decollare il progetto come sperava. Capita. Adesso rischia di dover chiudere tutti i siti che erano stati messi in piedi.

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+ http://www.passeralinux.fr/
+ http://www.pereidinalinux.org/
+ http://www.otrymaylinux.org/
+ http://www.dunglinux.org/
+ traduzione in italiano, ancora senza dominio


-- 
Iron

>----- Original Message -----
>From: olivier a gnulinuxmatters.org
>To: l18n a lists.gnulinuxmatters.org
Cc: committee a lists.gnulinuxmatters.org
>Data: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:23:35 +0100
>Subject: Re: [GLM-l18n] Forward of moderated message

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>Hello everyone,
>
>V'yacheslav Stetskevych wrote:
>> 
>> This poliglota thing is broken for quite some time now. I mailed 
>> Gustavo but sadly I got no reply. We have to do something about it 
>> people, I have completed the FULL RUSSIAN TRANSLATION but it seems 
>> like no one is around to receive it.
>> 
>> THIS PROJECT HAS TO LIVE! It's the best informational portal on Linux
>>  that I've seen.
>> 
>> C'mon, translators, send us a ping e-mail message to the GLM i18n 
>> list, show yourself! Let's keep this stuff up and working! Gustavo,
>> Olivier, where are you, guys???
>
>I'm terribly sorry for the long silence that the organization has been
>in recently. There is not much I can do about it unfortunately.
>
>I used to be working for GLM full-time on my own funds; since October I
>have a job which I need to make a living. It does not leave me enough
>free time to contribute unfortunately.
>
>I worked extremely hard in the last 5 months of my involvement, in order
>to try to secure funds for GLM to stand by itself financially (until
>then 80% of the funding came from my pockets). It did not work, and left
>me completely out of energy and money. I guess you could call it burnout
>- - though I wished it to be this way, trying as hard as I could while I
>could.
>
>In October I found an extremely fine job in a French university, as a
>teacher. The job is utterly exhausting (but fulfilling); I have had
>absolutely no time for myself for the last 3,5 months.
>
>I know that there are translations ready that "just" need to be
>formatted to get online. It just breaks my heart to see this frankly. I
>see all the good work and efforts that are being and have been made, I
>can assure you!
>
>But I simply have no time to contribute unfortunately. Since there is
>probably very little chance that I can participate seriously again, as
>soon as I will get a little time, my efforts will be spent on
>disengaging myself from the non-profit organization, and bringing my
>work to a nice and clean official close.
>
>In practice, I hope that another non-profit can take the websites over
>and take them in the direction they wish. This is hard work. There is a
>lot of maintenance, community nurturing, external communication to do in
>this kind of projects. Perhaps the FSF might want to take the sites over.
>If worst comes to worst, the online sites will be withdrawn and made
>available for download and re-use. The PR'ed domains will be redirected
>to other active & useful sites (ex, localized Ubuntu or gNewSense
>homepage, Wikipedia article).
>
>In the meantime, all I can do is make sure that the bills are paid and
>that we are not stupidly losing domains and servers. I hope, that within
>2 to 3 months things can change again, and the project can spring up
>again with new people. Any participation in that direction is welcome.
>
>Sending you my best greetings nevertheless,
>
>Olivier.
>
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