The Gentoo Chinese Community Is Founded
Where the Gentoo Chinese Community Came From
The Gentoo Chinese project is a technical community where enthusiasts in mainland China get together to talk about Gentoo Linux. This time around is the third try at building one.
The first try, around 2004, was started and run by Gentoo fans over at LinuxSir. It did a lot to spread Gentoo in mainland China, but the project eventually shut down for one reason or another (see [1]).
The second one started in 2007: a Gentoo Chinese docs translation project kicked off by Zhang Le. Its biggest win was translating the whole Gentoo Handbook into Chinese and getting it submitted upstream, which is the official Gentoo Handbook in Chinese you see today. That translation project is still running (see [2]).
This new Gentoo Chinese project makes three. 清风 handled most of the setup work, and we landed on “Gentoo Chinese Community” for the name. Plenty of Gentooers pitched in along the way.
What the Gentoo Chinese Community Aims For
Pull together the scattered Gentoo resources around mainland China, get Gentoo users into one place to talk shop, help newcomers fix their problems, and give the veterans somewhere to trade tricks. Push up Gentoo’s adoption in mainland China, and over the longer haul, raise the level of Linux skill in the region and give back to upstream Gentoo.