On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:39 PM, <ivanc...@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