Danishka Navin wrote: > Hi All, > > Sinhala (si-LK) community will be conducting a translation hackerthon > on 29th and 30th March 2008. > Appreciate your valuable ideas and major areas we should play around. I think the common option here is to put everyone in a lab and install Pootle on a local server. Translation allocation takes place though Pootle, using a web browser.
If there is a big blackboard/whiteboard in the lab, use it to write down common terms and their translation, so people can come back to it while translating. If you already have a list of terms and their translation, you can also use the Terminology features in Pootle (the relevant terms and their translation appear on the web page). Dwayne (South African languages), who develops Pootle, has done several translate-a-thons. You may want to send him a personal e-mail. An ambitious goal would be to target GNOME Desktop section from http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/si/gnome-2-22 GNOME 2.22 is out, but 2.22.1 is out in early April. You may be able to make it for Ubuntu 8.04, and also for the next Fedora. If you have an Ubuntu 8.04Alpha system available, you can translate and also demonstrate to the team. It helps with moral to see the work in action. Also it helps to have translators run the application that they are translating to make the translations more suitable/refined. The purpose of the translate-a-thon would be to have adequate quality full translations that you can review later. It would be great to write up a report after the event takes place. It will be helpful to the other teams. Good luck, Simos _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
