[Localization] Fwd: localization status in Indian languages

[ganesh gajre]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>wrote:

> Oops, missed sending to the list.
>
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> From: Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [Localization] localization status in Indian languages
> To: Nagarjuna G <nagarjun at gnowgi.org>
>
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> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Nagarjuna G <nagarjun at gnowgi.org> wrote:
> > This is to know the people who are working in localization of Sugar
> > Platform into Indian Languages.
> >
> > Like last year we (the team at gnowledge.org lab In Mumbai in India)
> > will be working with
> > schools in India promoting Sugar Platform.  Every week we go to two
> > village schools, one the Khairat school and the other a middle close
> > by.  We go to the villages two times a week.
> >
> > As soon as possible, we would like to finish localization of Sugar
> > Platform for at least the most popular applications first in Hindi and
> > Marathi.  Do you know who is coordinating these activities now.  I
> > will also check the pootle site in a while,
> > but thought it is good to know who are currently working on it.
>
> Welcome to our localization community.  I see you've already received
> warm welcomes from other contributors.  While we do need more work on
> our Sugar strings, it is also worth noting that new OLPC builds are
> dual boot in Sugar and GNOME, so work on the upstream is also welcome
> as the strings flow down to us.
>
> See links below for more information,
>
> Hindi- lang admin: satyaakam (he's already replied to the list)
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/hi/
>
> Important GNOME upstream - Hindi
> http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/hi/olpc/ui/
>
> Marathi lang admins: swapnil, sayamindu, sandeeps (Haven't been active
> recently, but based on his good work, ganesh might be a good candidate
> if he's interested)
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/mr/
>
> Important GNOME upstream - Marathi
> http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/mr/olpc/ui/
>
>
>
> General explanation of Pootle projects:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Translation_Team/Pootle_Projects
>
>
> If you have (or can recruit) speakers of any of these other languages,
> that would be great as well.
>
> Bengali
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/bn/
>
> Bengali (India)
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/bn_IN/
>
> Gujarati
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/gu/
>
> Kannada
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/kn/
>
> Malayalam
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ml/
>
> Nepali
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ne/
>
> Punjabi
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/pa/
>
> Sanskrit
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/sa/
>
> Sindhi
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/sd/
>
> Sinhala
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/si/
>
> Tamil
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ta/
>
> Telugu
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/te/
>
> Urdu
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ur/
>

I would like to do it certainly. Trying to get some more contributors for
several more Indian languages.
>From gnowledge.org <http://lab.gnowledge.org/>  lab there are 2-3 users who
are contributing to MR and Malyalam translation.

Will definitely take responsibility for administrating MR localization.

Thanks chris...

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> cjl
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