[IAEP] Comments for an Oceania project

[mokurai at earthtreasury.org]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 9:14 pm, Chris Leonard wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 , Martin Sevior <msevior at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On behalf of the abiword community I invite speakers of Marovo and
> other Pacific Island languages to contact us on the abiword-dev
> mailing lists (see http://www.abisource.com/developers/) so that we
> can explain how to make a Marovo translation of AbiWord and Write.

Please also have them contact me. I have just signed up to be the primary
contact for new translators.

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Getting_Involved#Translator

> Martin,
>
> As you may know, we have long been pointing localizers at AbiWord and
> other
> upstream projects:
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Translation_Team/Pootle_Projects#AbiWord
>
> The reality is that there can be a certain inertia that makes it hard to
> move localizers from one system (Pootle) to another method of submitting
> (offline PO files and mailing list submission); nevermind the multiple
> processes needed to get the upstream fully localized.  Another advantage
> is
> that Pootle offers excellent on-line QA tools (e.g. msgfmt checks) and
> other
> affordances (slow accumulation of strings is possible, collaboration
> workflow is enhanced, etc.).
>
> I'd like to make a proposal for collaboration on L10n (one made to and
> accepted by other upstream and downstream projects like GNASH and
> Waveplace).  We can host an "unofficial" set of PO files for AbiWord on
> our
> Pootle server.  It probably makes sense to do so in this project:
>
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/upstream_POT/
>
> This would *not* replace AbiWord's established process (submitting to the
> abi-dev mailing list), it would serve to complement it.  We would *not*
> attempt to establish the commit connection from Pootle used for locally
> hosted projects, that would remain a manual AbiWord process and AbiWord
> would remain in control of final commits and repo archiving; our Pootle
> server would merely be an optional collaboration tool.
>
> We can establish any additional language projects needed and upload your
> existing 2.9.x and 2.8.x PO files.
>
> What do you think?  Feel free to repost this to abi-dev for comment and
> discussion with your community.
>
> cjl
> volunteer Sugar Labs / OLPC / eToys Pootle admin
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