[Qgis-tr] Fwd: Coordination of the Greek Language

Sun Mar 24 04:37:04 PDT 2019

Dear all,

Nikos is welcome, since he has put a lot of energy in translating and
trying to find resources. The basic/real challenge is the lack of people
contributing. We will try to give a push.

Kind Regards

Thodoris

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> Dear QGIS colleagues,
>
> I am making an effort to get the Greek language translation process move
> forward and, in this direction, last week I wrote to both of the respective
> team coordinators, Werner Macho and Thodoris Vakkas.
>
> My understanding is that, currently, there isn't much goining on, in terms
> of organisation/coordination activity for the Greek translation. I may be
> wrong, in which case I'd be very grateful if you please let me know about
> the ongoing coordination activities and provide references/links to the
> relevant work.
>
> However, if my observation is correct, I am happy to step forward and make
> myself available for the role of coordinator for the Greek language.
>
> There are genuine challenges with the Greek translation. For example,
> there's no Standard for the Greek GIS terminology, which could be used as
> point of reference. Also, to the best of my knowledge, there is no sponsor
> for the translation of QGIS to the Greek language.
>
> To address these, as well as any other challenge that comes on the way, I
> think it's important to liaise with private sector, public sector
> organisations and universities, which may have an interest in the
> translation of QGIS to the Greek language.
>
> I'd be very interested in hearing the QGIS Translation Team's views and
> learn more about if/how other teams have managed to deliver a consistent,
> reliable translation and achieve progress that follows closely the original
> English text. Have other countries established national standards for GIS
> terminology and, if so, do QGIS translation teams make good use of these
> standards?
>
> I look forward to hearing from you.
>
> Kind regards,
> Nikos
>
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/ntsarb/
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> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 19:30:19 +0100
> From: Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>
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> Hi Nikos,
>
> Thank you for your message.
> If Thodoris is ok with it you are more than welcome to coordinate the
> greek language (it is also possible to have more than one coordinator).
>
> IMHO translation is mostly done in the "freetime" of our translators,
> so we rely on enthusiastic people to contribute (as it also is with
> code).
>
> If we can help you in any way just let us know.
>
> I myself can only speak for the german language where we are extremely
> lucky because whenever Jürgen (as a core contributor also to the code)
> already provides the translation for new code he contributes along with
> new strings.
>
> The "rest" is done whenever it has to be done - and lastly there is
> only a few translation going on with the documentation as far as I can
> see.
>
> >From my knowledge german language uses the Glossary available in
> transifex, but if there are better things available you are welcome to
> make suggestions.
>
> kind regards
> Werner
>
> On Sun, 2019-03-10 at 13:35 +0000, Nikolaos Tsarmpopoulos wrote:
> > Transifex Webtranslation page for QGIS is on
> > https://www.transifex.com/qgis/
> >
> >
> >
> > Dear QGIS colleagues,
> >
> > I am making an effort to get the Greek language translation process
> > move forward and, in this direction, last week I wrote to both of the
> > respective team coordinators, Werner Macho and Thodoris Vakkas.
> >
> > My understanding is that, currently, there isn't much goining on, in
> > terms of organisation/coordination activity for the Greek
> > translation. I may be wrong, in which case I'd be very grateful if
> > you please let me know about the ongoing coordination activities and
> > provide references/links to the relevant work.
> >
> > However, if my observation is correct, I am happy to step forward and
> > make myself available for the role of coordinator for the Greek
> > language.
> >
> > There are genuine challenges with the Greek translation. For example,
> > there's no Standard for the Greek GIS terminology, which could be
> > used as point of reference. Also, to the best of my knowledge, there
> > is no sponsor for the translation of QGIS to the Greek language.
> >
> > To address these, as well as any other challenge that comes on the
> > way, I think it's important to liaise with private sector, public
> > sector organisations and universities, which may have an interest in
> > the translation of QGIS to the Greek language.
> >
> > I'd be very interested in hearing the QGIS Translation Team's views
> > and learn more about if/how other teams have managed to deliver a
> > consistent, reliable translation and achieve progress that follows
> > closely the original English text. Have other countries established
> > national standards for GIS terminology and, if so, do QGIS
> > translation teams make good use of these standards?
> >
> > I look forward to hearing from you.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Nikos
> >
> > https://www.linkedin.com/in/ntsarb/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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