Reviving the idea of Fedora Mentors?

[Mike McGrath]

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:

>
> On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 21:47 -0400, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
> > > The user checks the boxes in question, and the Mentors receive an
> > > email. "Achtung!  There's a new contributor!  Here's their email
> > > address!  Bring them home!"
> >
> > A few thoughts:
> >
> > 1. A lot of CLA signers don't speak/read English (trust me, I know).
> > Thus, a lot of FAS2 account holders don't. Currently, FAS2 doesn't
> > require people to list the languages they speak/read. If we want to do
> > this, we might want to enable that functionality, and respond
> > appropriately.
>
> Hm.  Yes.  Hm.
>
> Do we have any l10n plans on the horizon for FAS2?  Is it even written in such
> a way as to make l10n feasible?
>
> Do we simply assume that everyone who comes to contribute to Fedora speaks
> English?  Is that an unreasonable assumption?
>

Its been translated into 5 languages already (it was a requirement for
building fas).  Additionally you can set your locale under my account.

	-Mike