Re: New coordinator for the German translation team

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

Am Mittwoch, den 12.01.2005, 14:57 +0100 schrieb Christian Rose:
> tis 2005-01-11 klockan 13:43 +0100 skrev Hendrik Richter:
> > On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 22:28 +0100, Christian Rose wrote:
> > > sön 2004-12-05 klockan 09:05 +0100 skrev Frank Arnold:
> > > > [...] German coordinator
> > > > changed by November 22th. Christian Neumaier has retired. New
> > > > coordinator is Hendrik Richter (hendrik gnome-de org).
> > > 
> > > That's nothing I knew of, and nothing that has been officially announced
> > > in the GNOME Translation Project. Thus, I'm cc:ing this to Christian
> > > Neumair as he's still the German coordinator (at least until otherwise
> > > formally announced and confirmed on the GTP mailing list).
> > > 
> > > Christian, can you confirm Frank's CVS account request, and do you
> > > support it?
> > 
> > As of Monday, November 22nd 2004 I am the new coordinator for the German
> > GNOME translation team, elected on the gnome-de list. The former
> > coordinator Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org> announced it to the
> > gnome-de list that day, his post in German language can be found at [1].
> > A Babelfish translation [2] returns "thus is Hendrik judge with
> > immediate effect the new Übersetzungskoordinator.", where "judge" is the
> > translation of my surname "Richter", "Übersetzung" means "translator"
> > and "Koordinator" "coordinator".
> > 
> > I was unable to reach Christian Neumair for about two months and I think
> > that Christian Rose did not get a reply on his mail, too. Therefore I
> > hope that his German announcement and its not perfect translation are
> > sufficient. I would not bother you with these things, but it is no
> > pleasure to have to go through other GNOME projects than this list if a
> > translator want the privileges for CVS commits, so I hope to get that
> > sorted out soon :)
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > -- Hendrik R.
> > 
> > [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-de/2004-November/msg00089.html
> > [2] http://tinyurl.com/596e7
> 
> Ok, then. Since noone seems to have heard from Christian Neumair for the
> last two months I assume that he is no longer reachable and we need a
> new German coordinator. Fortunately, I'm able to read German, and so it
> seems there was voting and agreement on you being the new coordinator.
> I've updated the http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/teams.html page
> now, listing you as the new German coordinator.

I'm very much sorry for the confusion I caused. I should really have
announced the change. My computer is still broken :/.
I asked you 2 or 3 times in #i18n to change it, though that was after
all a bad idea, because it was not formal and so I can't give proof of
it. Me stupid.

> If you should ever meet Christian Neumair again, feel free to pass on my
> thanks for his time as coordinator. Also, feel free to also give him a
> slap from me for not properly announcing the coordinator change
> upstream. :)

/me slaps himself with ... .

> Finally, I wish you all the best as the new German cordinator.

So do I.

regs,
 Chris