[Localization] Scratch Now Available in UTF-8 for OLPC

Edward Cherlin echerlin at gmail.com
Fri Jun 13 19:49:20 EDT 2008


On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Evelyn Eastmond <evelyn at media.mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi Markus,
>
> Thanks for the inquiry.
> I have emailed you and the previous Scratch German language team to see what
> is the best way to proceed.
> Would you like to be the German language admin for Scratch?
>
> How would I go about making that happen?

I put instructions on the Localization page on the Wiki some time
back. Let me know if they need clarifying. We also need to get
Sayamindu to add Scratch to all of the other language projects. For
example, I see it under Spanish, but not the languages I administer,
Kreyol and Khmer.

> Thank you!
> Evelyn
> MIT Scratch Team
>
> Markus Schlager wrote:
>
> Hi Evelyn and Sayamindu,
>
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Evelyn Eastmond wrote:
> [...]
>
>
> While this version of Scratch now comes in 30+ languages, translation is
> still very actively in progress.
> All translations for Scratch will be done using OLPC's Pootle server:
> http://dev.laptop.org.
>
>
> Who ist language-admin for the German translation of Scratch?
>
> Being a teacher who is using Scratch (end etoys) at school, I had been
> involved in the German translation as it is now. I asked Jens Mönig and
> Andreas Brodbeck, the former German language-team about the current move
> of the translation to Pootle, but at least Jens didn't even know about it.
>
> I'd love to know whom I should discuss suggestions with, since from my
> viewpoint as teacher some basic rules and choices are important.
>
> On Pootle I'm mschlager, language-admin for etoys-German. Obviously
> Gerhard gave me admin-privileges to some other parts of the XO-translation
> as well.
>
> Markus
>
>
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