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* Ubuntu French Translators (mix of wishlist and accomplishments, needs to be graded and documented)

Provided quality translations for all the official Ubuntu releases and projects
Releases
- insert figures on translation patterns here
  - update 2.bp.blogspot.com/-S_7NHMV3mrw/TlvCbbkJRkI/AAAAAAAAIS0/WUhd2Oq1epo/s320/TraduireUbuntu-29aout2011.png
- (kpi) insert figures on translation coverage per release (translated/total, absolute untranslated) here
  - Start of period:
  - End of period : Lucid: 90.3% (absolute: 31933), Maverick: 90.1%(absolute: 34934), Natty: 89.3%(absolute: 38783), Oneiric: 85.1%(absolute: 54413), Precise: 84.8%(absolute: 48557)
- ASK: A more systematic, online tracking of translations (& benchmark) to raise morale and awareness.
Documentation
- We lagged on Documentation because it's not the sexiest or easiest part of the job
- We lagged on Kubuntu Docs due to the lack of translators having a Kubuntu install or willing to install an image
- We lagged a little bit on server side due to complexity of the english documentation
- We've caught up recently.
- ASK: We lack a systematic online valorisation (eg: publication) of translated documentation.
Ubuntu Package Descriptions Translations: we started bridging the gap
- (kpi) number of untranslated strings and completion ratio
  - Lucid: 54616 (XX%), Maverick: 56029 (27.2%), Natty: XXXX (X%), Oneiric: 64751 (21.78%), Precise: 54616 (24.7%), Quantal: 54616 (24.7%)
  - The important is to look at the most visible translations. Two ways to do this: look only at ddtp-ubuntu-main or use http://nightmonkey.ubuntu.hu to see only packages shown in the Software Center
    - 38 out of 300 packages in main in the Software Center are still untranslated
    - All restricted packages are translated (out of 5)
    - 14 untranslated out of less than 100 in the Multiverse Packages
    - 1300 untranslated packages from universe out of 1800
- (kpi) Lucid, Precise translation ratio to German & Spanish (french/foreign language)
  - We lost ground to other languages. While at the beginning of period German and Spanish were ahead, at the end of period, German (45%) ,Italian (40%),Spanish (38%) ,Slovenian (31%) and Russian (30%) were ahead.
  - That's a 15042 string gap with German
- ASK: Would need crowdsourcing help by integration in the ubuntu appstore end-user UI
Online Apps
- Translation of the Ubuntu Team & Events Portal
- Translation of various LP stuff as requested
Ensured Q&A pre & post release
- (kpi) insert # of translation bugs filed per release: Lucid, Maverick, Natty, Oneiric, Precise
  - 17 assigned bugs overall: 3 Fix commited bugs, 11 Triaged Bugs, 2 incomplete bugs, 1 confirmed bug
- (kpi) insert avg and max time to fix a translation bug:
Increased the efficiency of the translation process & "leadership"
increased the (kpi) number of active contributors : 13 "active" contributors by LP's standard (team members, regardless of contributions)
increased the quality of contributions so as to reduce review work
- (kpi) # of unmodified validated contributions / # of validated contributions (end and start of period)
grew the best contributors into reviewers and active members
- no active action taken on that point. We've started clearing the backlog on September 1st.
grew reviewers into team leaders
- no active action taken on that point
Reduced the backlog of strings to review
- Insert backlog of strings to review
- End of Period: Lucid: 7886 , Maverick: 8607 , Natty: 9152, Oneiric: 8181, Precise: 8155 , Quantal: ??
reduced the backlog of unapproved contributors
- we tried but hesitated given the balance between quality and number of members
- we didn't have compelling incentive to reduce that backlog (many applications without any mail on the ML to announce work, or mail without any significant contributions)
- (kpi) : number of pending applications (Lucid, Precise): EOP: 40 proposed members, number of approved members (Lucid, Precise):
stroke a balance between translation level and # of new approved members
Refreshing the wiki (http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/ubuntu-l10n-fr)
Be able to retain and engage our active members
We lost several significant contributors and reviewers that were doing the bulk of the job due to personnal imperatives and lack of engagement by the team
Churn (# of numbers , sum of average monthly contributions * number of months since we lost them)
Seasonnality effect ?
Increased awereness of our work to attract new members
Opened a blog (0.6/1)
- we opened a blog on blogger and then migrated it on the ubuntu-fr hosting platform (http://traduire.ubuntu-fr.org » means translate.ubuntu-fr.org)
- webdesign teams lacked time to work on this project as they had limited ressources. We thus have a barebones design.
- We wrote a couple of posts
- We failed to attract contributors to the blog
- Paused to only contributor lacking time
Created a newsletter (0,5)
- a couple of issues were released
- stopped to only contributor lacking time
Syndicated on the planet (0/1)
- Miss on that one as the blog isn't ready
Posted on the forum (0,1/1)
- Someone suggested we post on the forum at low hours to get maximum exposure. We tried but didn't gain that much traction.
Created a presence on social networks (0/1)
- We want to act on this, either with a standalone account or with scheduled post on the main account
Present at Ubuntu Conferences (0,4/1)
- we were present at a technical ubuntu conference, but it wasn't the public we were aiming for. 15 people listening, 2 people actually expressed interest in joining the team, 1 actually posted on the ML.
- we should aim for every Ubuntu Party, with a presence either physical or over VC (Hangouts, yet non free, are an interesting option for office hours or Translation Workshops as they allow multi-users VC, with screensharing and conference recording for upload and social sharing)
Ensure presence in the UWN
- presence in the UWN Translations stats ensured us visibility.
- we were dropped from it for some reason