For firewalls (im behind one too) see if theres an https alternative. I guess you solved this, but some might not be able to futz with proxies (or shouldn't) at work :)

On Sep 21, 2012 5:50 PM, "Nick Dokos" <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:

> Bastien,
>
> I can't clone the orgweb repo:
>
> git clone git://orgmode.org/orgweb.git
> Cloning into 'orgweb'...
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>
> Is the server is down?
>

I can't get to it either, but I am behind a firewall and have had
problems with the socks proxy I usually use. After I switched proxies,
I *was* able to do a git pull on the emacs repository though, so I
suspect the fault is at orgmode.org's end.

Nick

> - Marcelo.
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
>
>     Hi Marcelo,
>
>     glad you like the new website!  It's important to keep Org open
>     to non-developers, it is good if the website somehow advertizes
>     this attitude.
>
>     Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:
>
>     > I can help with the Spanish and Portuguese versions, by the way.
>
>     Great!
>
>     ~$ git clone git://orgmode.org/orgweb.git
>     ~$ cd orgweb/
>     ~$ git branch orgweb-es
>     ~$ mkdir es/
>     ~$ cp *org es/
>
>     [translate the es/*org files]
>
>     ~$ git commit -m "Yeah! "es" translation done!"
>     ~$ git format-patch master
>
>     ... then send me the patch(es).
>
>     Should be one-hour max of work.
>
>     Thanks in advance :)
>
>     --
>      Bastien
>
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