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Hello,
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I am writing to announce my candidacy for I18n Ocata PTL.
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I have participated in OpenStack translations into Korean
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since October 2014. At the first time, I was just a Korean
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translator and used Transifex, the previous translation platform.
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As I got involved more and more, I have experienced and
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learned a lot through the kind help from I18n members and also with
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many I18n activities. I went to previous two Summits and it was so
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happy to meet many I18n members, Zanata members, and Infra team members
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offline. I have committed small patches into Infra, openstack-manuals,
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and Stackalytics repositories for better integration with I18n.
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Now I am an active translator in Korean team, and also an I18n core reviewer.
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I am currently ranked as the third top contributor in Translations [1],
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and I try to leave review comments with details in
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openstack/i18n repository [2].
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I18n team has become an official project since June last year [3].
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Indeed, internationalizing OpenStack makes OpenStack ubiquitous
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accessible to much more members all over the world. To accomplish
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our team goal, we have done a lot of things including translation
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platform and infrastructure with the collaboration of OpenStack teams.
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On the other hand, it seems that currently there are still more things
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to do with many translators, language coordinators, and also developers.
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In my opinion, we need to find ways to more focus on translation qualities,
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and keep better track of the change in evolving OpenStack.
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I think I18n team is special because team members have different
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language backgrounds and experiences. I like this diversity.
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I truly believe that we can make good synergy with the diversity.
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In the Ocata cycle, I would like to work with I18n members for:
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* Translations are our first important aspect in I18n team.
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For better translations, more conversations and discussions
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with various I18n members are needed. Let's consider the ways
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to better communicate with language translators and coordinators.
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I would like to kindly discuss and cooperate with many members
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to share our good practices and improve OpenStack I18n Guide [4].
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Also, translation support in OpenStack I18n Guide will make our
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significant guide internationally accessible.
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* Stablizing our on-going work is also important.
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For example, Stackalytics now shows Translations metric.
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However, more tunings are needed such as applying language filter,
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and showing translations on contribution report.
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Also, we need to apply appropriate ways for translators to regard
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as ATCs with an automated manner rather than registering as extra ATCs.
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* Let's facilitate I18n and Inter-Project Cross-Project Liaisons [5].
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Lots of members from different project teams helped a lot.
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Since we have such nice Liaisons relationship with other project teams,
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facilitating Liaisons will be able to go for positive progress.
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For example, I really hope that Infrastructure/I18n Liaisons will
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help successfully land several on-going issues including
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translations check site and Zanata upgrade.
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I would like to appreciate previous and current great help from
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I18n and also many of different team members. Let's continue our effort
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for OpenStack to become more universal! One more thing to mention
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is that I am not fully familiar with all of aspects in I18n team.
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I need help from many members even if I will be nominated for
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I18n Ocata PTL. Please support and encourage me for better I18n project.
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[1] http://stackalytics.com/?metric=translations
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[2] http://stackalytics.com/report/contribution/i18n/90
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[3] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-i18n/2015-June/001112.html
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[4] http://docs.openstack.org/developer/i18n/
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[5] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/CrossProjectLiaisons#I18n
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With many thanks,
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/Ian
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