{"id":1106,"date":"2011-09-24T12:14:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T12:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2011-09-24T12:29:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T12:29:41","slug":"they-make-mageia-oliver-burger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2011\/09\/24\/they-make-mageia-oliver-burger\/","title":{"rendered":"They make Mageia: Oliver Burger"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Tell us all about you!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who am I? That’s quite a question. But let me try…\u00a0My name is Oliver Burger (aka obgr_seneca) and I live in southwest Germany. At the\u00a0moment I’m doing something called dual studying here. It means that\u00a0about half the year I am at a University and the other half I’m at a\u00a0company, developing mainly web based geographical information systems but\u00a0other web applications aas well.<\/p>\n

How\/where do you contribute to Mageia? What else do you contribute to? Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am an active member of the German Mandriva community\u00a0MandrivaUser.de, I was a Mandriva translator since about 2007 and I\u00a0was one of the packagers creating the mud third party packages.
\nSince MandrivaUser.de had its differences with Mandriva S.A. for quite\u00a0some time, Mageia was the best thing that could have happened. “Our”\u00a0distribution living on without the influence of a strange company we\u00a0had to live with…
\nAt Mageia I am team leader of the i18n team. In addition I am in web team and\u00a0packaging team.
\nAs i18n team leader it’s my job to see the team has everything it\u00a0needs to do its\u00a0job. This means keeping in touch with the sysadmins and other teams as well\u00a0as keeping the team running and cooperating as a team.\u00a0In addition I am doing my share in the translations as every other i18n team\u00a0member does.
\nBeing team leader doesn’t mean I could impose decisions upon the team, it’s more
\nlike moderating the team, finding solutions all or most of the team can agree\u00a0upon and of course I am the team’s representative in the council and thus I\u00a0have to see to it, the team’s opinions and needs are heard by other parts of\u00a0the project.
\nIn web team I am still more passive, I did some parts of the web sites for\u00a0the Mageia 1 release and I have some plans about what I’d like to add to the\u00a0Mageia web world, but I didn’t find the time to really implement them.
\nAs a packager I am building and maintaining some smaller packages and I’m helping\u00a0in the mentoring process.<\/p>\n

So, what’s special about i18n in Mageia? What are the main points at\u00a0the moment to be done? What are the difficulties?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think special is the team building process. In all the years as a\u00a0Mandriva translator, I never really worked together with translators\u00a0from other parts of the world. At Mageia I see i18n as being a part of\u00a0the community, working together with all the other teams. At Mandriva\u00a0it was more being an unpayed underappreciated employe…<\/p>\n

Anything what would you love to see added\/happening in Mageia?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

To be honest, what I would really love to see in Mageia is loads of\u00a0contributors in all the areas, so Mageia can be the best distribution\u00a0out there!
\nSo if you feel, you have any skills that are helpfull to Mageia, don’t be shy.
\nAnd let me add, that we are always welcoming new translators, there are quite\u00a0some languages, that are translated by single person teams and quite some more\u00a0we don’t have translators till now.So, come aboard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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