[Live-demo] Language support for the Live Project

[Cameron Shorter]

Oscar,
Good to hear.

It would be good if a few Spanish translators stepped forward to help 
translate the docs for the next release, and tried to identify all the 
issues involved with supporting another language.

Note, I don't expect the English docs to be ready for a couple of weeks, 
but it would be good to do a test run and provide feedback.

Please forward this message onto whomever you think would be interested, 
and suggest they join the live dvd email list.

Oscar Fonts wrote:
> In the Spanish Language chapter there is people asking what can they
> do to help with FOSS4G.
> And we did some translation efforts time ago. There is a wiki page
> with OSGeo projects and its translation status:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Spanish_Translation
>
> Oscar.
>
>
> 2010/2/7 Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>:
>   
>> All the language options I listed are available for the system (Xubuntu
>> menus etc). Anyone have a little time to cross reference the list with
>> project translation lists.
>>
>> I agree for our documentation that Spanish would be a good start, and
>> I'm not really concerned about it for this release. Next release we can
>> really focus on getting all the docs translated as a major feature
>> (Since the rate of new software should be slowing).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
>> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>     
>>> Regarding picking languages for the LiveDVD,
>>>
>>> My suggestion is that we include the languages for which there are
>>> translations in the packages, and the live DVD.
>>>
>>> I have a list of OSGeo translators from FOSS4G who I can ask for help
>>> from, once we have decided what should be translated.
>>>
>>> As FOSS4G is in Spain this year, I think we should start with Spanish.
>>>
>>> I think this release 3.0 we should consider translations experimental
>>> (mainly because our documentation is pretty crappy in English and needs
>>> be cleaned up before we put in huge efforts into translation). So it
>>> would probably be wise to only focus on one language initially, unless
>>> one of our translators is prepared to burn lots of time.
>>>
>>> Alex Mandel wrote:
>>>       
>>>> So I've managed to get language packs installed. Oddly while the menu
>>>> titles in xfce-panel don't seem to change the menu in them is definately
>>>> in the correct language based on login (I've tested QGIS with German and
>>>> Spanish so far).
>>>>
>>>> Adding 18 language packs took about 129 MB but I'm not sure if the gnome
>>>> language packs are needed too or the spelling dictionaries. Of course
>>>> picking which languages to support is now the real challenge. So far I
>>>> went directly with a list off wikipedia of the most # of speakers in the
>>>> world. I went all the way to 20 but a few of them don't have language
>>>> packs in Ubuntu.
>>>>
>>>> This list long term should lead us towards finding translators for our
>>>> help files and all the apps (assuming they aren't already translated).
>>>>
>>>> There seem to be 2 other alternate ways to pick though.
>>>> 1. based on OSGeo chapter languages
>>>> 2. based on the languages the OSGeo site supposedly supports
>>>> translations for.
>>>>
>>>> Here are the comparative lists, if we had to cut it to 10 languages
>>>> which would you pick?
>>>>
>>>> # of Speakers:
>>>>   sp \ #Spanish
>>>>   en \ #English
>>>>   hi \ #Hindi/Urdu
>>>>   ar \ #Arabic
>>>>   bn \ #Bengali
>>>>   pt \ #Portuguese
>>>>   ru \ #Russian
>>>>   ja \ #Japanese
>>>>   de \ #German
>>>>   jv \ #Javanese - no language pack
>>>>   pa \ #Punjabi pa
>>>> # no language code for Wu may not be a written language
>>>>   fr \ #French
>>>>   te \ #Telugu
>>>>   vi \ #Vietnamese
>>>>   mr \ #Marathi
>>>>   ko \ #Korean
>>>>   ta \ #Tamil
>>>>   it \ #Italian
>>>>   tr \ #Turkish
>>>>
>>>> OSGeo Chapters:
>>>> Finnish
>>>> Greek
>>>> Hebrew
>>>> Polish
>>>> Romanian
>>>> Thai
>>>> English
>>>> Spanish
>>>> Portuguese
>>>> Italian
>>>> Japanese
>>>> Chinese
>>>> French
>>>> Hindi
>>>>
>>>> OSGeo Site:
>>>>     * English
>>>>     * Български (Russian?)
>>>>     * 简体中文 (Chinese?)
>>>>     * Deutsch German
>>>>     * Français French
>>>>     * Indonesian
>>>>     * Italiano Itialian
>>>>     * 日本語 (One of these is Japanese?)
>>>>     * 한국어 Korean
>>>>     * Nederlands Dutch
>>>>     * Polski Polish
>>>>     * Portuguese (Brazilian)
>>>>     * Русский Greek?
>>>>     * Español Spanish
>>>>     * Türkçe Turkish
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,Danke,Gracias, etc,
>>>> Alex
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