[Live-demo] Re: Translating OSGeo-Live to Chinese
Cameron Shorter
cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Mon Apr 30 04:56:13 EDT 2012
Amy,
I'm delighted to hear that you will be able to help with the Chinese
translations.
You will find the process for translating explained here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Translate
And you can see the latest status of our translated documents here:
http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/zh/index.html
Song, Wang,
Do you have any suggestions for Amy with regards to the style you are
making use of in the translation?
On 30/04/2012 11:06 AM, Amy wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
>
> I'm not currently helping with FOSS4G. What you suggested sounds like
> a perfect starting point for me and my team to get involved. We do
> have translation skills. Please send me a few pages to be translated
> and we can go from there. If you, Song, or Wang could also send me the
> translated pieces for language style reference, that would be great!
>
> Thanks,
> Amy
>
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Cameron Shorter
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hello Amy,
>
> It is very kind of you to offer your services to help with FOSS4G
> and OSGeo. I'm not sure if you have already been recruited into
> the service of FOSS4G?
>
> If you still have some spare volunteer time, one thing which Song,
> Wang Jing have started, as part of running FOSS4G in Beijing, is
> to translate the OSGeo-Live [1] documentation into Chinese.
> This documentation provides a comprehensive high level overview of
> the best Open Source Geospatial applications. And the OSGeo-Live
> DVD is handed out at geospatial conferences and workshops around
> the world, including at FOSS4g in Beijing.
>
> Amy,
> If you have the skills to translate into Chinese, then it would be
> hugely valuable if you and your team could extend Song and Wang's
> initial translations to be more comprehensive.
>
> Are you interested?
>
> [1] http://live.osgeo.org
>
> On 17/04/2012 12:00 PM, Amy wrote:
>> Thanks a lot Tim!
>>
>> Let me first introduce a little bit more about myself: My name
>> is Amy Gao. I'm the President of Spatial Front Inc., a Spatial IT
>> company located in Washington DC area. My clients are mainly U.S.
>> Federal agencies and Fortune 500 companies. We use both open
>> source software and commercial ones, but the use of open source
>> software is definitely on the rise. I was really impressed by the
>> good work from the nice, smart, and passionate people like Tim
>> and wish to contribute back to the open source community. A
>> handful of my employees are also native Chinese speakers. If
>> there's any way that I or my company can help, please don't
>> hesitate to let me know.
>>
>> I will be on a business trip to China in July for a couple of
>> weeks. It would be great if I can meet with some of you in Beijing.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Amy
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Tim Schaub <tschaub at opengeo.org
>> <mailto:tschaub at opengeo.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to introduce Amy Gao to this group. I met Amy last
>> week at
>> the FOSS4G-NA conference - she lives and works in the
>> Washington DC
>> area. She expressed an interest in helping with the FOSS4G 2012
>> effort in any way she could. Amy is a native Chinese
>> speaker, and I
>> thought she might be able to help facilitate communication
>> between the
>> organizing committee and others within the OSGeo community.
>>
>> Ang Gao, could you suggest a way that Amy might be able to
>> help with
>> the effort? If you have a list on your side that she could
>> subscribe
>> too, it might be a good way for her to get involved.
>>
>> Amy, I cannot provide details on the various lists & people
>> copied
>> here - but I'm hoping that someone else copied here can help make
>> introductions. Can someone describe the purpose of the
>> conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org
>> <mailto:conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org> and
>> foss4g2012 at lists.osgeo.org
>> <mailto:foss4g2012 at lists.osgeo.org> and
>> suggest if Amy should sign up for either/both?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tim
>>
>> 2012/4/15 OSGeo China <foss4g2012 at lreis.ac.cn
>> <mailto:foss4g2012 at lreis.ac.cn>>:
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > We are sorry about our slow progress in comparison with the
>> timeline that we set up in February. The current problem is
>> caused by the delay of our online conference management
>> system. About two months ago, we made a contract with a
>> company for system development. But our testing on this
>> system showed that there were some problems on the payment
>> part in registry system, and the abstract submission system
>> also did not run well. For safety, we have to postpone the
>> registry and call for papers.
>> >
>> > Now we are urging the development company to speed up,
>> meanwhile we are trying to find an alternative company as
>> soon as possible. We hope to fix it next week. The following
>> is a draft about our progress.
>> > (1) We have signed the contract with Beijing Conference
>> Center to be the conference venue.(Late February)
>> > (2) We negotiated with Beijing Conference Center and
>> achieved an about 10% discount on the hotel (4~5 star level)
>> for the participants who pay through the payment system set
>> up by LOC. (Late February)
>> > (3) The conference committees have been established (Middle
>> March)
>> > (4) We have got three Chinese sponsors, including Supermap,
>> LREIS, CAS. And several others are under contacting.
>> > (5) About 40% of OSGeo-Live Docs have been translated into
>> Chinese to promote OSGeo software in China. Both English and
>> Chinese versions are expected to be handed out in FOSS4G 2012.
>> > (6) The Foreign Liaison Office of Chinese Academy of
>> Sciences has granted LOC to invite foreign participants.
>> (Early April)
>> > (7) We had a meeting with Prof. John P. Wilson, the
>> editor-in-chief of TGIS on 12th April, and he would continue
>> to support FOSS4G-2012 academic paper publishing (Thank
>> Kobben and Helena for their past works).
>> > By the way, Dr. Ntin-Tripathi, the editor-in-chief of
>> International Journal of Geoinformatics, has also agreed to
>> support one special issue. He will be in Beijing in early
>> May, and we can further fix the details.
>> > (8) We will update the information of keynote speakers to
>> foss4g 2012 website soon.
>> >
>> > We apologize about our work again. Once the registry system
>> is well done, we will catch up our schedule fast.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Ang Gao
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > OSGeo China
>> > _______________________________________________
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>> > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>>
>>
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