Please find below a draft of the announcement text which I propose to send in debian-devel-announce to announce the official launch of the review project. Incidentally, I propose to give a nice nickname to the project and "Oxford" came to my mind..:-)...Please feel free to comment. Subject: Announcing the Oxford review project: proofreading English in Debian packages texts Please welcome the Oxford project in the galaxy of various Debian projects. This work is intended to last all along the etch->lenny release cycle and will even be a never ending project. Its purpose is to review all English texts associated with Debian packages, namely debconf templates, manual pages and packages descriptions. The first task of the project began in early March 2007 and is aimed to review debconf templates for packages that use debconf to interact with users. In short, the aim of this process is to review the debconf templates for packages that use them, based on their popcon score, and: review the debconf templates update translations get new translations The debian-l10n-english contributors are currently polishing the whole process and tools while work already began with a few packages, either packages with the highest popcon score (kdebase, xorg, cupsys...) or packages that recently introduced or modified their debconf templates (lwat, aiccu, dtc...). Contributors with good skills in the English language and good writing capabilities are welcome to join the project by subscribing to the debian-l10n-english mailing list which will be the main communication media for the project. The project will also use the #debian-i18n IRC channel on irc.debian.org and a wiki page has been setup at http://wiki.debian.org/I18n/OxfordReviewProject --
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