[perldoc2-developers] Meet the team

[Joergen W. L. <joe...@gm...>]

Hello and welcome everybody,

let me express my gratitude to all of you for joining the team of 
perldoc 2.0. Since this is quite a new project I would like to take the 
opportunity to introduce you to each other. Please feel free to correct 
me if I'm mistaken or missing out on some facts.


Herbert Breunung, aka 'sir_lichtkind':

The first one to join the team was *Herbert*, known as 'sir_lichtkind' 
in sourceforge. Herbert is involved in creating what might well be the 
'kernel' of the documentation for Perl6.

He also is an active member of the german Perl community and contributor 
to the translation efforts on perl-community.org. Herbert also is 
involved in the developement of PCE (now called kephra for various 
reasons). Apart from being able to do translations to german (and 
probably czech) he is working on making kephra fit for the creation of 
translations.


Nicolas François, aka 'nekral':

*Nicolas*, also know as 'nekral' on sourceforge, is the current 
maintainer of po4a, a tool that converts documentation from multiple 
formats (POD, to mention just one) into a gettext-compatible format and 
back.

perldoc 2.0 uses po4a extensively to convert the original .pod-files 
into gettext-pot for ease of translation and mainteneance.


Paul Gaborit, aka 'gaborit':

I am very happy to see *Paul* join the team. Paul seems to be the only 
survivor of the french translation project which has started some years 
ago as a joined effort of the french perl newsgroup. He still maintains 
the french repository.


Jörg Plate, aka 'patterner':

*Jörg*, one of the Hamburg.pm regulars calls himself "Software 
Artificer" - someone who performs fireworks show - but with software. 
Jörg has volunteered to help in creation the framework for the actual 
translation platform. Seeing him join put me under some pressure since 
now I have to switch from 'abstract' mode to 'practical'. Expect some 
real code, soon.

Also on the list, but not (yet?) on sourceforge is

Robert Sedlacek:

*Robert* is also an active member of Hamburg.pm. He has also opted to 
help with the creation of the framework. Although he was born in 
Austria, he has now accustomed to the harsh climate of Germany's north. 
If we are nice to him, he might be providing the Austrian translation.

Joergen W. Lang, aka 'joergen_lang':

I am working as a freelance translator for O'Reilly Germany since 1999. 
I have since then co-translated about 14 books like 'Learning Perl', 
'Perl Hacks', 'Perl in a nutshell' to name but a few. I am a Perl hacker 
since 1996. The idea of working on the translation of the Perl docs was 
lingering around for quite some time.

On the 2006 Euro OSCON in Brussels I had the chance to talk to Damian 
Conway and 'Barbie', two leading figures in the world of [Pp]erl.

Both strongly encouraged me in not only translating the docs but also 
creating a common platform for the translation to other languages. So, 
there you have it! ;o)


Again, welcome to you all and a big 'thank you, merci, danke' for 
joining and helping with the various aspects of this project.


Greetings from Hamburg, Germany,

Joergen