Think Global, Make Locales! » The Team

One Goofy Guy

Goofy — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:43:18 +0000

As I don’t like to boast on my numerous qualities, I will spare you the long list of my programming skills. To make it short, just remember I was there to put the very first coakroach (improperly but now historically called a bug) in the huge Eniac machine, and that my early experiments on object-oriented programming language lead to the success of Apollo 13 mission. I also contributed to discover Rubik’s cube solution with a solid circular saw and superglue.

Now that I am getting old ( I was born in 1917) I have very few occasion to contribute to computer age programming, because there are millions of developers who don’t need me to generate crap codelines. Ah I remember my youth when I was spaghetti-coding with ZX 81 then Amstrad 512 ! At the time, there was nobody to tell you you were creating nonsense… we were NOT online, do you know ? But that’s enough with gone history.

My involvment on BabelZilla is mainly a question of friendship, as I already explained here (extraordinarily in a serious manner!), and it is based on a funny misunderstanding. The team here thought I could help, though I am practically unable to do one simple thing without making GoofyMistakes (TM). so I suspect they tell me to stay just because I am their buffoon, though it is even worse when I try to be funny.

For the moment, I am pleased with BabelZilla because translation is fun to me, and I like to share my experimental errors with the open source community, but I must say I am a little anxious on this point : as our site gets a big success (higher than expected one year ago), it becomes more and more serious, with more and more serious people all around making serious plans, that is why I prefer to stay here as a “loose cannon” – the French phrase is “électron libre” to suggest someone who may join or not, having individual erratic trajectory not necessarily circling around main core in a rational manner. Rationality sucks!

Jean-Bernard aka Goofy

Fenian – also known as the “Spiteful TechAdmin”

Fenian — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:40:58 +0000

Me: My Life and My Job
I live in Germany and I’m 39 years old.
Last year I married my long time companion Rosemarie.
I worked about 15 years in the quality assurance and in the quality management.
After the bankruptcy of the company, I took the opportunity to learn something new: Network Developer
Well, not really new because I love computer since my first VIC-20. So it ‘s no wonder the that I’ve studied some semester of Computer Science. Unfortunately I never finished…
During the training I got the following certifications:

There’s one thing left to do: LPCI My Hobbies
Free time for them after all the time for BabelZilla?
Yes, there is!
And in this time I’m a volunteer in an organization called THW.
THW, the Bundesanstalt Technisches Hilfswerk (German Federal Agency for Technical Relief) is an organization of the German government.
The tasks of the THW are:

technical relief in Germany
with assignment by the government technical or humanitarian relief in foreign countries
technical and logistical relief for other (German) GOs, NGOs or other authorities like fire brigades, police or the custom authorities.

Well, I think, that’s enough for now.
I’ll wait for the other members’ profiles

Translators & Team!

Luana — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:13:03 +0000

Who are we?
We are a team of international translators for Mozilla family application extensions, and up to now there are 45 languages and more then 300 translators present on BabelZilla!

Who are the Administrators?
Jürgen aka Fenian, from Germany, is a Tech Admin and a translator for de & de-DE.
Charles aka Ptit Lutin, from France, is a Tech Admin and a translator for fr & fr-FR.
Luana aka MatrixIsAllOver, from Italy, is a P.R. Developer! and a translator for it & it-IT.

Who is the SuperMod (goofinator), coordinator of all the Forums?
Jean-Bernard aka Goofy, the chosen one from France, is a SuperMod and a translator for fr & fr-FR.

Who are the General Moderators of the general Forums?
(in alphabetical order of nick names)
Roel aka Asterxx from Netherlands,
Carlos aka chuzo from Spain,
Luca aka l0stintranslation from Italy,
Oliver aka ReinekeFux from Germany,
Miz aka seabow from Japan,
Claudio aka Teboga from Brazil,
Yorick aka Tibox from France,
and last but not least ,
Emil aka WizKid from Sweden!

Who are the BabelZillian Moderators of the BabelZillian Forums?
(in alphabetical order of nick names)
Finn aka AlleyKat from Denmark,
Ahmet aka amurati from Kosovo,
Stoyan aka arris from Bulgaria,
Yuhang aka blackdire from China,
Kenji aka deq from Japan,
Gert-Paul aka Gert-Paul from Netherlands,
Alexander aka Hawksthorne from Bulgaria,
Tao aka hermit from China (currently living in Germany!),
Marius aka Melon from Norway,
R. Nicolas aka MorZilla from Argentina,
Rodrigo aka Rodrigo Bergmann Laurindo from Brazil,
George aka Sonickydon from Greece,
Team erweiterungen.de aka Team erweiterungen.de from Germany,
and last but not least ,
Leszek aka teo from Poland!