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Calling all translators

Terence Simpson — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:59:20 +0000

As many of you who use IRC will know, last year the IRC Council introduced a Terms of Service page describing the terms for using many of our IRC channels, specifically the logged channels. And, as many LoCo team channels are also logged, they also have the same terms.

In February we decided it would be much better if these terms were translated into different languages, as not everyone can read English, and LoCo channels would want the terms in their own language. So far, thanks to some great people, we have 12 translations of the page listed. But we would like to have more translations and we need your help.

These are the language that already have translations:
Asturianu, Català, Čeština, Deutsch, Español, suomi, Français, Galego, Indonesian, Italiano, Nederlands, and Hebrew.

If you can translate English into another language, or are a member of a translation team, we’d very much appreciate your help in getting the page translated into as many languages as possible. Even if your language has already been translated, we would like reviews of the translated pages to make sure they read well in your language. So please go to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/TermsOfService and add your language.

What the IRCC is up to

Terence Simpson — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:07:51 +0000

As you may know, the IRC Council recently appointed 3 new members, including myself

So, what are the council up to?
At the moment we are working on importing the access lists for the core Ubuntu IRC channels into Launchpad. Why are we doing this? Well, we plan on managing the access lists for the channels from Launchpad teams. This will mean than the access lists should always be up-to-date with active operators and allows us to create a set of “core ops”, which will have operator status in all our core channels.

We have made good progress on this and are are practically ready to automatically import the access list into Launchpad. Part of the reason behind doing this is to remove inactive operators from the access lists. The way we plan on doing this is to create a set of operator requirements which all operators will need to agree and adhere to. This will make sure all operators know what is required of them and allow us to see who are active operators and who aren’t.

The next IRCC meeting will take place on Sunday 31 January 18:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting, the agenda is here, all are welcome to join in.

For those interested in the new layout of the IRC teams, this is a visualization created by Benjamin Rubin.