[OSGeo-Discuss] Message Translation in OSGeo software projects

[Richard Gould]

This would be fantastic.

I was highly impressed with the Rosetta interface when I first came
across it. Unfortunately the source code is not available, but they are
asking for help in their FAQ in regards to making it available. 

That said, I would really like to help out, especially in terms of
implementation. 

I wonder if it would be worth the effort to try and help launchpad.net
release Rosetta? 

Richard

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 12:14 +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a known obstacle to use FOSS Desktop GIS software (maybe
> also WebGIS solutions) are the user messages which are often
> not translated from English to other languages.
> 
> In the GRASS project, we have ongoing efforts to translate
> the (thousands) of messages into various languages:
> http://grass.itc.it/devel/i18n.php
> 
> While this sort of works, translators always have to download
> the entire message files and submit changes. A problem arises
> if different people want to translate for the same language.
> We would better use a Web based solution, at least as an
> option (since not everybody has a flat rate network connection).
> 
> As a test I had registered GRASS in Launchpad:
> https://launchpad.net/products/grass6
> but we never used it due to the (to me) unclear copyright
> situation of the translated messages.
> 
> I would like to see that OSGeo comes up with a translation
> portal which could be extended to tutorials as well (maybe
> embedded into the EduCom Wikibook efforts). This could be
> a nice way to get  non-programmers involved.
> 
> Opinions, suggestions?
> 
> best,
> Markus
>