<chapter id="coordination"><title>Coordination of &d-i; i18n/l10n</title>

<para>
The role of the i18n coordination team is very broad. Indeed, it may be
summarized as "be the pivotal point between &d-i; developers and &d-i;
translators". Even if translators have always been considered to be full
members of the &d-i; team, the need for this gathering point was obvious.
</para>

<para>
The role of the &i18n-coords; may be summarized in the following
tasks:
</para>
	  <itemizedlist>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>
		     reference point for translators;
                </para>
	    </listitem>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>
		     reference point for maintainers and &d-i; release
		     manager for all internationalization issues;
                </para>
	    </listitem>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>
		     guarantees consistency in English writing style;
               </para>
	    </listitem>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>
		     searches for and <literal>validates</literal> new translators;
                </para>
	    </listitem>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>
		     maintains helper tools;
                </para>
	    </listitem>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>
		      follows developement and maintains <classname>localechooser</classname>;
                </para>
	    </listitem>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>
		      offers expertise in more specific topics such as
		      encoding, left-to-right text handling, special
		      packages to support arabic, oriental languages
		      is also needed;
                </para>
	    </listitem>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>
		      manages the testing of the release candidates
		      with regards to internationalization and
		      localization;
                </para>
	    </listitem>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>
		      assists translators with the Debian BTS and
		      package maintainers by handling localization
		      commits for them;
                </para>
	    </listitem>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>
		      improves the framework to make the translators
		      life easy (status pages, spellchecking
		      framework);
                </para>
	    </listitem>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>
		      maintains contact with translators, derived
		      distributions and organised free software l10n
		      teams (Arabeyes, Indlinux...);
                </para>
	    </listitem>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>
		      maintains the installation guide
		      internationalization along with the installation
		      guide maintainer.
                </para>
	    </listitem>
	  </itemizedlist>

</chapter>
