Debian -- German Debian pages

Even though Debian was started in the U.S. it is an international project. Besides many official developers we have a lot of German speaking contributors who promote Debian GNU in their countries, provide support for this system or try to help people by translating our documents and web pages.

German Support

Social Contract with the Free Software Community
German user mailing list: web archive, subscribe
debianforum.de
IRC channel Debian.de

Translations

Our goal is to provide the Debian distribution and its documentation in German as well. This is helpful for those people who don't speak English well enough to understand it. For most people this is a form of convenience, however for rather old, very young and less experienced people it is required not to be worried with english.

There are four big spots where translation is done:

The website: The most obvious spot and also the most advanced one. If you like to help here you can find the information for that below.
The Debian Description Translation Project (DDTP): This is about the translation of the package descriptions which the various package tools will present to the user. This is important to help the user to find out which packages are interesting or important for them.
The central translation page: On this page you can find hints about the localisation and internationalisation of the packages within Debian as well as about the debconf templates files. This point is also important so the user's interaction with the packages is adapted.
The Debian Documentation Project: This concerns additional documentation like various manuals for users, developers and others. This documents should also be translated for the benefit of our users.

The mailing list debian-l10n-german@lists.debian.org is intended for discussion and organisation of german translation (subscribe/archive). There is also a website for the list with useful links.

Translation of the web site

If you want to help to translate the website please check out the following resources:

Status of the German website
Translation of www.debian.org
Translation Coordinator(s): Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>, Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>, Tobias Toedter <t.toedter@gmx.net>, Jens Seidel <jensseidel@users.sf.net>
(More information)
Credits for the translation of www.debian.org
useful translation suggestions

The translation of the Debian website into German is already quite advanced. Most of the pages not translated yet are old weekly news.