<div dir="auto">Thinking.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Incubation process only recommends resources (such as OSGeo Live, and Marketting) to connect with if they would like assistance. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In this case osgeo offers weblate. <div><a href="https://weblate.osgeo.org/about/">https://weblate.osgeo.org/about/</a></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Once again if this is an important principle, in programming terms externalizing strings so they can be translated, then it should be considered a requirement. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Similar to how incubation projects are asked to have user documentation. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jody</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 7:00 AM Angelos Tzotsos <<a href="mailto:gcpp.kalxas@gmail.com">gcpp.kalxas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">I agree that this is valuable to have l</div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">as a recommendation.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Angelos<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 1, 2023 at 3:40 PM Tom Kralidis <<a href="mailto:tomkralidis@gmail.com" target="_blank">tomkralidis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all: at the 2023-07-01 OSGeo Board meeting [1], the topic of internationalization in OSGeo projects</div><div>was discussed. While translation usually encompasses a considerable level of effort, it would be valuable</div><div>for projects to at least have the ability / process in place to integrate translations if/as they are provided over time.<br></div><div><br></div><div>An example in this regard would be for a Python project to have a Sphinx i18n setup [2].</div><div><br></div><div>It would be valuable to add an item to the Project Graduation Checklist to ask whether a project has</div><div>considered i18n. This would _not_ be a requirement but a recommendation, in support of the global</div><div>nature and community of OSGeo.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div><div><br></div><div>..Tom<br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2023-07-01" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2023-07-01</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/advanced/intl.html" target="_blank">https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/advanced/intl.html</a></div></div>
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