Introduction to the Infrastructure Group

[Asgeir Frimannsson]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 10:03:45 am Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Asgeir Frimannsson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As requested on the 'Getting Started' page, here's my [1] introduction to
> > the list:
> >
> > My name is Asgeir (asgeirf on IRC). I am working part-time with Red Hat
> > (eng-i18n, Brisbane, Australia) and otherwise spend much time completing
> > a PhD investigating the role of context in translation reuse...
> >
> > My primary interest (at this point) within Fedora is localisation and
> > translation 'engineering'. I hope to help great people like Dimitris
> > Glezos maintain and develop the translation infrastructure (status pages,
> > transifex) and the translation tools.
> >
> > cheers,
> > asgeir
> >
> > [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AsgeirFrimannsson
>
> Welcome!  I take it you know Glezos already if not make sure to try to get
> ahold of him online.  A focus on localization is a very worthy goal and
> among some of the better work Fedora is up to right now.
>
> Are you looking to help code some of our apps for better localization?  If
> that's the case we're using TG with mostly genshi templates though some
> kid.  We could certainly use some more help.  Stop by #fedora-admin if you
> get a moment tomorrow.  It would be good to discuss some of this a bit
> more.

Yes, I've been in the background for a while and I know glezos. I have already 
started working with the codebase for Damned Lies and Transifex in 
collaboration with glezos. I'm also regularly on #fedora-l10n and 
#fedora-admin though I'm on Australia-time :)

cheers,
asgeir