[Localization] Introductions, Urdu / Nepali / Pashto support

[SJ Klein]

<resending to the localization list>

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Sarmad Hussain wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> CRULP (www.crulp.org) would be glad to take on the responsibility of
> localization (OTRA) for Urdu.  We are already localizing open source tools:
> Open Office, Mozilla SeaMonkey (released), PSI, NVU, Drupal and Microsoft
> platform: Vista and Office 2007(for Microsoft).  Please advise how to sign
> up for it.  We already have a very large translation memory for doing
> localization and can take care of it fairly quickly.
>
> Nepali can be easily managed by Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (www.MPP.org.np),
> our PAN Localization partners, who have developed and released Nepalinux
> (see http://madanpuraskar.org/projects.php#pan and
> http://madanpuraskar.org/news_details.php?id=33). They are also members of
> Nepali Languages in IT (NLIT) sub-committee of High Level Commission on IT
> (HLCIT), which reports to the prime minister if Nepal.  I am cc:ing Amar
> Gurung and Bal Krishna, the Project Lead and Manager respectively, who can
> better advise on Nepali thread.  Pashto discussions are already underway.
>
> Best regards,
> Sarmad
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SJ Klein [mailto:sj at laptop.org]
> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 9:22 AM
> To: Sarmad Hussain; OLPC Localizations
> Cc: 'Don Osborn'; 'Maria Ng'; 'Phet Sayo'; 'Phyllis Lim'; Xavier Alvarez;
> rprasad at idrc.org.in; rs at panl10n.net; rrc_tech at panl10n.net
> Subject: RE: Introductions: Dr. Sarmad Hussain - Mr. S.J. Klein
>
>
> Dear Sarmad,
>
> Thank you for the offer of support.  I copy on this email Walter Bender,
> whom you know, for further keyboard details (we soon need to finalize our
> Nepali and Pashto keyboards); Xavi Alvarez, who can directly help you with
> localization pages on the wiki and where you can find more information;
> and our localization mailing list <localization at lists.laptop.org>.  You
> can sign up for the mailing list here:
>      http://mailman.laptop.org/listinfo/localization
>
> One thing in particular we are looking for is a language coordinator for
> each language:
>      http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pootle#Sign-up
>
> Regards,
> SJ
>
> bcc: eben, bernie, jg
>
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Sarmad Hussain wrote:
>
>> Dear SJ Klein,
>>
>> We can request our partner organizations to help in localization work for
>> various languages through the PAN Localization project channel.  Let us
> know
>> how you would like to proceed.
>>
>> Also, are you implementing collation sequences (in addition to KB and
>> interface terminology translation)?  Also, are you building spell checkers
>> within the word processing environment being provided.
>>
>> It would be very useful if you could point out the URL where we can find
>> more information about the OS and applications being shipped with OLPC
>> machines (which will need to be localized).
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Sarmad