<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>One possibility:<div> </div><div>use the "I know America" folder of Peru that have all information and have implemented</div><div>the i18n. The code also have i18n and the gtk-3 port is easy (replace sugargame library).</div><div> </div><div>Regards!</div><div> </div><div>Alan <div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> From: cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com > Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:33:23 -0500 > To: ivanchhh@gmail.com > CC: alanjas@hotmail.com; sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org; javier2dc@gmail.com > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Conozco Peru > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:39 PM, <ivanchhh@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello guys, > > > > I made the activity "Conozco Peru", what can I help you with? > > > > Regards, > > Ivan Estremadoyro > > Dear Ivan, > > Hi, My name is Chris Leonard. I am the Sugar Labs Translation Team > Coordinator and one of our "organization admins" for our participation > in the upcoming Google Code-In. > > Please allow me to give you some background that I hope explains my > interest in contacting you about Conozco Peru. > > 1) An .xo bundle for Conozco Peru is hosted on ASLO, but it is > Spanish-only and marked as "experimental". It was last updated in > 2010 and indicates that it only runs on older versions of Sugar: 0.82 > – 0.88. > > http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4319 > > 2) AFAICT, Conozco Peru development is not currently hosted on the > Sugar Labs git repository. > > http://git.sugarlabs.org/ > > 3) Starting back in 2008/2009 a volunteer effort began to translate > the Sugar Core (Glucose and Fructose) into Aymara and Quechua, this > effort was consolidated and re-booted at Sugar CampLima in 2011 > through the efforts of SL and SomosAzucar. Support from OLPC-A > allowed this effort to push to completion for the Sugar Core, but > there is still work to be done to increase L10n coverage (e.g. a lot > of Honey activities and other packages that are widely used in Peru) > > http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ayc/ > > http://translate.sugarlabs.org/quz/ > > 4) The Peruvian Ministry of Education has taken official notice of > this community-initiated effort and has communicated that their future > plans include deployment of Aymara (the Peruvian "ayc" variant we have > worked on) and Quechua (Cuzco) (lang-quz). Their interest also > includes expanding to include at least one Amazonian language > (Asháninka,lang-cni). The MinEd has asked Sugar Labs to help drive > this L10n effort forward and raised the possibility of support with > MinEd resources for the translators. > > 5) Sugar Labs successfully applied to be a mentor organization for > Google Code-In (running frm Nov 26th to Jan 14th). Our GCI effort > will invite kids (age 13-17) to take on well-defined tasks (smaller in > scale than the better known Google Summer of Code). While > specific-language translation tasks are not within the scope of GCI, > internationalization (i18n) efforts to prepare programs for > translation (e.g. gettext inclusion, POT generation) do fit into their > criteria as coding tasks. > > > That is the background. Now for specifically what you can do for the > kids of GCI and Peru (in some cases, those may be the same kids). > > a) Migrate (as opposed to fork) development of Conozco Peru to Sugar > Labs git repository. This will make it easier to maintain in the long > run and is key to eventually having it translated via our normal L10n > workflow. > > That is really the most important part of what I am asking of the > Conozco Peru developers, although their participation as mentors for > the next steps would be very welcome as well. > > b) Once the Conozco Peru code is in Sugar Labs git, the i18n process > can defined as a GCI task and would move forward as described on this > page http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Google_Code-In_2012/Activity_i18n > > c) It is likely that additional (separate) tasks could be created to > explore if GTK3 porting is needed, to perfom testing on more recent > version of Sugar, etc. This would involve taking some of the general > examples of task categories and creating a specific task for this > activity for posting to the GCI server. > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Google_Code-In_2012 > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/GoogleCodeIn2012/GCI2012_Brainstorming > > Note: Developer's help is needed to define tasks, GCI org admins (me > and Walter Bender) are responsible for posting them toethe GCI > web-site. After that mentors would manage the task as kids select it > and submit their work for review. > > Overall, my hope is to use GCI to improve Conozco Peru (i.e. GTK3 of > needed, adding i18n) so that, in time, this geography activity can be > worked into the L10n plans and ultimately benefit even more kids in > Peru (in their mother tongues). > > Warmest Regards, > cjl > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel </div></div> </div></body> </html>