[Live-demo] Translating OSGeo-Live's marketing material - Who is interested?

[Astrid Emde]

Hello,

we started with the translation of the OSGeoLive documents at the code
sprint at FOSS4G.

You can join in the irc #osgeolive

We created directories and named them ja, de, it (if we decide to use
other names we easily can rename them later).

We added a new headline to the wiki page Live_GIS_Add_Project where we
will describe the tranlation process and what you have to do for
translation. We can discuss this later:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Translations

Have fun

Astrid

On Thu, September 9, 2010 6:02 am, Alex Mandel wrote:
> A quick comment, the recommended method for linking alternate languages
> these days is to use the name of the language written in it's native
> characters. The primary reason being that it's much easier to identify
> than a flag that may or may not represent your country, or even be
> recognized.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
>
>
> On 09/08/2010 05:08 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
>> Great to hear the interest.
>> I've moved our main documentation directories (overview, quickstarts and
>>  standards) into trunk/docs/en/ and I've updated
>> bin/install_main_docs.sh to build docs in this directory into
>> /usr/local/share/osgeolive-docs/en
>> on the OSGeo-Live directory.
>>
>> This  doesn't (shouldn't) effect the existing built document structure,
>>  which I suggest we keep in place until we a stable alternative in
>> place.
>>
>> This should be enough to get translators working, while we tweak build
>> scripts.
>>
>> Still to do:
>> * Covert index.html to en/index.rst
>> * ditto for sponsors.html, contact.html, download.html
>> * Set up sphinx build scripts for these files
>> * Encourage people to translate these pages too.
>> * Set icons on the docs to switch between languages
>> * Write a wiki on how to go through the translation process
>>
>>
>> On 09/09/10 00:37, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>
>>> So far we have German and Japanese volunteers at the conference for
>>> Friday.
>>> One thing that would really help is to set up the project directory
>>> structure for de and jp prior to the code sprint so we can just get
>>> going.
>>>
>>> I will stop in at the code sprint but expect I will mostly be hanging
>>>  with the Java crowd.
>>>
>>> Thanks to everyone who attended the presentation.
>>> Jody
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 08/09/2010, at 2:02 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> OSGeo Discuss,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We have been getting early interest in a desire to translate the
>>>> excellent marketing material projects have created into different
>>>> languages.
>>>>
>>>> As we start to kick off such a translation effort, I'm interested
>>>> to gauge how many people would be interested in such a translation
>>>> effort, what languages we should cover, how much documentation we
>>>> should translate, and hear suggestions on what tools or
>>>> documentation structure we should use.
>>>>
>>>> Potentially of interest for translation is:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A 25 minute presentation, slides and script here:
>>>> https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/promo/en/presentations/OSGeoLive
>>>> 4_0Taster/
>>>> available as a video here:
>>>> http://cameronshorter.blip.tv/file/4078371/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 1 page descriptions of 42 projects.
>>>> http://live.osgeo.org/overview/overview.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Main website pages.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Possibly Quickstarts and OGC Standards, although my gut feeling is
>>>> that these should wait for the next release cycle.
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know if you are interested in helping, and add your
>>>> name to the translators page here:
>>>>
>>>> https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQV
>>>> JuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc&hl=en_GB#gid=7
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you are at FOSS4G, note that there will be a Birds of a Feather
>>>> discussion on Translating on Friday.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Cameron Shorter
>>>> Geospatial Director
>>>> Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
>>>> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Think Globally, Fix Locally
>>>> Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
>>>> http://www.lisasoft.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Cameron Shorter
>>>> Geospatial Director
>>>> Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
>>>> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Think Globally, Fix Locally
>>>> Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
>>>> http://www.lisasoft.com
>>>>
>>>>
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