Re: [Bacula-devel-fr] French community for Bacula

[Kern S. <ke...@si...>]

On Tuesday 04 July 2006 10:05, Alexandre Baron wrote:
> Hello Kern,
>
> I am using Bacula for one year now, and I think it is the best open source
> backup tool. In my work I try to promote it to my customers, and sometimes
> they seems to be interested in using it.

Thanks. It is much appreciated.

>
> I would like to promote Bacula in France and I am thinking about to create
> a french community aroud Bacula. That means at least create
> - a web site (baculafr.org or something similar) with online french
> documentation and latest news
> - a news list
> - an irc chan baculafr
>
> I am nearly ready to start but I would like to have your opinion first. Of
> course I will not do anything if you do not agree.

Well, there are a number of things going on with Bacula and the French 
community.  I have copied the bacula-devel list and the bacula-devel-fr 
lists.  And any help you could be would be very much appreciated.  What is 
going on is the following:

1. There is a translation of the source code messages in to French, which is 
in progress (a big task).  Eric Bollengier <eric at eb dot homelinux dot org> 
is doing the work.

2. There is a translation of the manual into french, which is in progress, but 
this is an *enormous* task.  The work is being done by Ludovic Strappazon 
<strappaz.backup  at laposte dot net>

3. There are a good number of French users -- see the messages on the 
bacula-users list.

One thing that might be helpful would be a translation of the web site into 
French.  At least it would be a first step, and I will be very happy to 
modify the Bacula web site to support a French (or any other foreign 
language) version.  No one is working on translating the web site to French 
at the moment.

I would suggest that the French web site be at www.bacula.org/fr ... and that 
we put a "flag" icon link to it on the main www.bacula.org page.

If we create a French web site, someone other than me would need to be in 
charge of it.  That person could have developer CVS access to be able to 
update the CVS.  Then it is just a matter of informing me that you have made 
changes (I will probably see them in the commits) and I will upload the new 
pages.  At some point, if we have a lot of changes and/or a lot of languages, 
I will delegate out uploading the various language versions to different 
people responsible for maintaining the language version in the CVS.

The news list is probably bacula-devel-fr, which is mostly in French but not 
terribly active at the moment.  However, you are free to create other ones.

I think an IRC bacula-fr would be a good idea, but I will leave that to users 
who are interested such as you.  I  would be very happy to see any such 
effort take place.

Thanks for your interest in Bacula,

Kern