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

[Eugene Sandulenko]

Hey Lothar,

Sorry for the late reply.

You are welcome to the team, we already had in the past non-developers who
were working on the documentation.

I will grant you with the relevant privileges and permissions.


Eugene

On 9 March 2016 at 16:40, 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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