[Localization] Help with starting new languages

[David Leeming]

Hi Sayamindu

I log on the Pootle server as leemingd

I have managed to select the languages projects you kindly set up and am 
able to proceed.

I am wondering whether me might as well go the full hog now, and add the 
other countries. I will be setting up country pages on the wiki over the 
next few days, too. The two at the top are more urgent, as there are are 
volunteers (inc SIL people) already waiting to start in those counytries. I 
will help them to sign up as required.

Kiribati
Nauru
Tuvalu
Vanuatu - Bismala
New Caledonia - Kanak
Niue

Can I be cheeky and ask these to be set up as projects without creating a 
ticket for each, etc? But happy to do so if you prefer.

FYI, I also run WikiEducator courses in the Pacific and this is a great way 
to link that to the OLPC as well as for developing local content capacity.

David Leeming
Solomon Islands

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sayamindu Dasgupta" <sayamindu at gmail.com>
To: "David Leeming" <david at leeming-consulting.com>
Cc: "Edward Cherlin" <echerlin at gmail.com>; <localization at lists.laptop.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Localization] Help with starting new languages


> Hi David,
> Apologies for the delay.
> I have added the languages. I'll need your user account now to grant
> you access to the relevant languages. Also, before I can do that
> (grant access), you will have to choose the languages you would like
> to translate (slide 9 of
> http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/pootleforxo2.pdf).
> Let me know if you have any other questions.
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:42 AM, David Leeming
> <david at leeming-consulting.com> wrote:
>> Hi Edwin,
>>
>> I am part of a team deploying the XO in 21 countries in the Pacific, 
>> working
>> with Prof Barry Vercoe. We have done some work already in Solomon Islands
>> (needs updating) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Solomon_Islands and start 
>> a
>> series of trials in PNG next week, followed by expanded trials in the
>> Solomons, Nauru, Kiribati, Tuvalu, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Niue.
>>
>> I cannot sign up on the Pootle page because the languages I need urgently 
>> to
>> start work on are not listed. These are:
>>
>> Solomon Islands Pidgin (Pijin)
>> Papua New Guinea Pidgin (Tok Pisin)
>> Marovo Language (Solomon Islands)
>>
>> There is a ticket open, but I am not sure if it was done cotrrectly 
>> because
>> there ios little happeneing, now 10 days since I started this whilst at 
>> the
>> Countries Workshop in Boston.
>>
>> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7099
>>
>> Please can someone let me know what else I have to do to start upo 
>> projects
>> for all three countries above. I will then be able to add other 
>> volunteers
>> to the projects.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> David Leeming
>> Solomon Islands
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Edward Cherlin" <echerlin at gmail.com>
>> To: "David Leeming" <david at leeming-consulting.com>
>> Cc: <localization at lists.laptop.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 8:17 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Localization] Help with starting new languages
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:11 PM, David Leeming
>>> <david at leeming-consulting.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am just testing this list by letting you know I want to start
>>>> localisation
>>>> projects for the following languages.
>>>
>>> Welcome.
>>>
>>>> I have a current ticket (7099) open,
>>>> but am not sure this this all that is needed. Can anyone advise?
>>>
>>> The instructions are on the Localization page in the Wiki. I see that
>>> you have a user page, but you aren't listed on the Pootle page yet.
>>> Sayamindu would like a little more information in your ticket.
>>>
>>> To start a new language project on Pootle, the person volunteering to
>>> be the project administrator should first be registered on
>>>
>>>    * This Wiki, preferably with a User: page
>>>    * The OLPC Pootle localization server
>>>    * The OLPC Trac bug tracker
>>>    * The OLPC Localization mailing list.
>>>    * The OLPC Pootle Wiki page sign-up section.
>>>
>>> Localizers should also do the same once a project for their language
>>> has been started.
>>>
>>> Then the administrator can open a ticket on Trac and provide the
>>> following information:
>>>
>>>    * Language and country in the ticket title
>>>    * Component: Localization
>>>    * Who else is volunteering
>>>    * Data on the language
>>>    * Why this project is starting, which may be that shipments to
>>> that community are being scheduled, or just that the community wants
>>> it for its own use.
>>>
>>>> I am
>>>> working in the Pacific initially in 8 countries, deployments already
>>>> starting.
>>>>
>>>> - Solomon Islands Pidgin (Pijin)
>>>> - Marovo Langauge (Solomon Islands)
>>>> - Tok Pisin (Papua New Guinea)
>>>
>>> Who else is working on these projects?
>>>
>>>> David Leeming
>>>> Technical Advisor, People First Network
>>>> Honiara, Solomon Islands
>>>>
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