[Localization] [Grassroots-l] Volunteer opportunities : the example of the "francophony"

[s.boutayeb at free.fr]

Selon Seth Woodworth <seth at isforinsects.com>:

> The french translation of the Sugar UI are well advanced:
> https://dev.laptop.org/translate/fr/ states the average level of translation
> to be at 86%.  This is a great start and the amount of time required to
> finish translation completely is nil.
>
> If any of you speak french, please consider helping the translation ongoing
> at https://dev.laptop.org/translate/fr/
>
>
> Seth
>

Yes, we have achieved most of the work and have focussed our efforts on the UI
and the activities. The remaining untranslated strings belong to Etoys and
Scratch.

We have thus 4 main issues to be addressed. Other language teams might be faced
with
the same issues.

1. Complete the translation effort
See above. On the other side, some applications/activities should be included in
the localization process in order for the language teams to complete their
effort.

2. Quality Assurance
This said, whe had to revise our translations on an ongoing basis against the
UI. This work is not yet done. For example, some strings don't fit well in the
UI (as it is the case in the "Control panel") and have been reformulated
accordingly). Some other strings have to be revised "on the field" depending on
the usage context : for example the string "Mute" in the "Speakers" box, in the
joyride. A correct comprehension of the real functioning of the XO is very
important and translators should be able to "play with" the UI either through a
LiveCD or better, through a real XO, and ideally through interconnected XOs.

3. Reflect the ongoing software developments
The joyride build is a good example of UI changes reflecting in a change of the
translatable strings (for example, the strings "Favorites view", "Freeform",
"Ring", "List view").  We have to synchronize our translations with the changes
in the UI.

4. The documentation
The documentation (print/online/wiki, etc.) should be included in Pootle too, in
order to enable the shared translation effort that proved successfull for the
UI/activities.

> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 5:45 AM, <s.boutayeb at free.fr> wrote:
>
> > We will soon be faced with the perspective of deployments involving french
> > speaking countries/regions (aka francophones countries, both in the "North"
> > (Louisiane, Québec, France, Belgique, Switzerland, etc.) and in the "South"
> > (Maghreb, Subsaharian Africa, Near-Ost, SO-Asia, Pacifics, etc.). Note that
> > most
> > so called "francophone" regions are multilingual ones, with local languages
> > which might benefit as well from the global and francophone OLPC effort
> > (Haiti
> > is an concrete example of that situation).
> >
> > For this regions especially, we may see 4 issues where the role of
> > volunteers
> > will be an important factor and in which Grassroots organization like OLPC
> > France will have to contribute, with the help of a whole ecosystem of
> > participants :
> >
> > - the people to be involved with diverse actions (teachers, school kids,
> > grassroots, NGOs, locale/national/supranational administrations) either as
> > individuals or as groups
> >
> > - the financement (either local (private or public) or through various
> > support
> > programs (G1G1, francophone organizations, global education programs,
> > NGOs)
> >
> > - the infrastructure (deployments of XO and the accompanying measures)
> >
> > - the contents to be created, localized, adapted/redesigned, or shared
> >
> > - the promotion through public actions (pilots, conferences, lobbying,
> > formations)
> >
> > Grassroots organizations in general and OLPC France especially will address
> > these 4 issues in the context of the "francophony" where the common use of
> > the
> > french language may help realize economies of scale and reinforce links
> > between
> > the organizations involved in the global effort, especially in the
> > deployments.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Samy
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