# Coordination of &d-i; i18n/l10n

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.

The role of the &i18n-coords; may be summarized in the following tasks:

- reference point for translators;

- reference point for maintainers and &d-i; release manager for all internationalization issues;

- guarantees consistency in English writing style;

- searches for and `validates` new translators;

- maintains helper tools;

- follows developement and maintains `localechooser`;

- offers expertise in more specific topics such as encoding, left-to-right text handling, special packages to support arabic, oriental languages is also needed;

- manages the testing of the release candidates with regards to internationalization and localization;

- assists translators with the Debian BTS and package maintainers by handling localization commits for them;

- improves the framework to make the translators life easy (status pages, spellchecking framework;

- maintains contact with translators, derived distributions and organised free software l10n teams (Arabeyes, Indlinux...);

- maintains the installation manual internationalization along with the installation manual maintainer.