[OSGeo Africa] Reminder: QGIS parallel code sprint, 5 - 8 November

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Rama

> On 14 Oct 2015, at 15:37, Rama Khatibu <rammzh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I' m waiting to use QGIS in our local languages, especially in Swahili. It is fast growing language, second in Africa continent. This will encourage most people to like gis.
> Thank u guys for these great ideas.
> 
> 

The translation process is time consuming, but pretty straight forward, if you are interested in doing Swahili please consider joining the translation effort - you can find more details here:

https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/translate.html <https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/translate.html>

I would be really thrilled to see better African representation in the list of languages that QGIS is available in!

Regards

Tim

> 
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015, 13:21 Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com <mailto:tim at kartoza.com>> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Just a fresh reminder about the upcoming QGIS Hackfest over:
> 
> 5th – 8th November, 2015
> 
> I would especially like to encourage recent graduates and people looking to improve their CV's in GIS to make use of the opportunity to come along and participate so you can put 'I contribute to the QGIS project' on your CV! You don't need to be a coder or a QGIS guru - there are lots of other things you can do like:
> 
> * testing new features and reporting issues you find
> * writing documentation
> * improving the website
> * updating tickets with new information (e.g. this issue is resolved for me on QGIS 2.12)
> * translating (why don't we have QGIS localised to Xhosa / Zulu / Shona / Swahili) yet?
> 
> If you can't participate in person at the venue in Stellenbosch, South Africa, consider being a virtual participant over the same days via the QGIS gitter channel at: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS>
> 
> If you do want to participate on site here in Stellenbosch, please register here so that we know how many people to plan for!
> 
> http://goo.gl/forms/Eia6yHUVRM <http://goo.gl/forms/Eia6yHUVRM>
> 
> Thanks to those of you that have already registered, looking forward to seeing you then!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Tim Sutton

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