[Scummvm-devel] I'm gonna make you an offer you (probably) don't want to refuse.

Arnaud Boutonné strangerke at scummvm.org
Mon Mar 14 21:54:50 CET 2016


Dear Lothar,

Thanks a lot for your proposal and the time you have been investing for so
long in ScummVM.

We'll come back to you with the answer in the next days, sorry for the
delay.

Best regards,
Arnaud



On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Lothar Serra Mari <lserramari at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi fellow adventurers,
>
> my name is Lothar Serra Mari, 23 years old, better known as
> "rootfather". I'm working on the German translation of the ScummVM GUI
> and the documentation together with Simon Sawatzki (SimSaw).
> Furthermore, I'm responsible for the German translation of the ScummVM
> website. To make things easier, I want to apply to become a member of
> the ScummVM Team.
>
> I discovered ScummVM back in 2004 or 2005, it came on a CD bundled
> with a gaming magazine and included "Flight of the Amazon Queen" and
> "Beneath a Steel Sky". I don't remember playing "Beneath a Steel Sky"
> back then, but I know I played lots and lots of "Flight of the Amazon
> Queen". At this time, I had no fast internet connection, but a ISDN
> connection with a whopping 128kbit/s (praise the Lord for Dual Channel
> ISDN). And yes, it took one month and a crazy high internet bill,
> before I realized that "double the speed" means "double the cost".
> Sorry, mom.
>
> Next time I had contact with ScummVM was around 2010. I learned how to
> use Visual Studio and made my own localized version of it by
> translating all the hard-coded strings directly in the source code.
> Yeah, it was a mess, and I never released it anywhere except on my own
> personal homepage that had like 1 visitor a month.
>
> A few months later, Simon contacted my and asked me if I wanted to
> work on the official translation. If I remember correctly, this must
> have been shortly after the initial support for translations in the
> GUI. We did the inintial translation, and I somehow disappeared due to
> school and some hard times. But even in my inactive times, I never
> forgot ScummVM and used it every now and then.
>
> About one year ago, I came back to do some work on the translation
> again. In the meantime, Simon maintained the translation and also
> translated the README and NEWS file. To be fair, at the moment, about
> 70% of the GUI translations and nearly 90% of the README and NEWS
> translations are done by Simon if my estimations are correct.
>
> Then, a few months ago, ScummVM introduced the multilanguage support
> for the website and I started working on the translation. At the
> moment, the entire work on the German translation of the website is
> done by myself. And this time, I won't disappear. I promise.
>
> What I can do for the project: I will continuously work on the
> translation of the GUI and the documentation together with Simon, and
> of course of the website. As you might have noticed, I'm now pretty
> fast in adapting changes :)
>
> My skills: Thanks to the translation I'm doing for ScummVM, I think I
> am pretty good at it. I have also some experience with "git" already,
> so I don't expect any problems like crashing the repository every now
> and then. Of course, I am constantly improving my translation skills
> to make the German localization as perfect as possible. I also managed
> to dig in the source code of the website without breaking too much in
> the past. ;)
>
> My primary OS is Windows 10, but I also have some experience in the
> administration of Linux servers. So if you need some help on that
> side, let me know, I'll see what I can do for you.
>
> The amount of time I can invest in the project varies greatly from 10
> to 30 hours a week, depending on the amount of work that's demanded by
> "real life".
>
> I'm usually in the #scummvm channel, so feel free to ask questions.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Lothar
>
>
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