<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Chris Leonard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com">cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Christoph Derndorfer<br>
<<a href="mailto:christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com">christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
> I was recently approached by some folks from western Austria and<br>
> Liechtenstein who are interested in doing a small OLPC and/or Sugar project<br>
> in Albania.<br>
> All other issues aside (and there's many;-) they're obviously also<br>
> interested in being able to use the machines in Albanian. Looking<br>
> at <a href="http://translate.sugarlabs.org/sq/" target="_blank">http://translate.sugarlabs.org/sq/</a> it says that about 43% which seems to<br>
> leave about 9000 words untranslated if I'm reading that page correctly.<br>
> Does anyone have an estimate of how long it would take to translate the<br>
> missing strings?<br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Christoph<br>
<br>
</div>Christoph,<br>
<br>
That is entirely dependent on the number of localizers working and<br>
their dedication to the task. The Huastec (Téenek) team made amazing<br>
progress from 0% to near %100 in core projects in about a month, but<br>
they have shown high levels of constant activity from multiple<br>
contributors. The Armenian team has made good progress from a zero<br>
baseline, but it has been slower with fewer active contributors.<br>
<br>
Having a good start in Albanian is promising (you are not starting<br>
from 0%), but the thing to do is to begin recruiting localizers<br>
immediately, because only tracking their efforts over time will give<br>
you a real estimate of when it will be complete, there are just too<br>
many variables.<br>
<br>
I will reach out individually to our existing Albanian localizers, but<br>
I strongly encourage you to begin recruiting additional L10n help<br>
ASAP.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot for the quick reply and information, I'll forward it accordingly.</div><div><br></div><div>I have been emphasizing the importance of on the ground buy-in for quite some time already. Hence I hope things could start moving into the right direction when / if the go-ahead from the political and finance people finally comes.</div>
</div><div><br></div>Cheers,<div>Christoph<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<div><br><div>editor, OLPC News [<a href="http://www.olpcnews.com" target="_blank">www.olpcnews.com</a>]<br>volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [<a href="http://www.olpc.at" target="_blank">www.olpc.at</a>]</div>
<div><br></div><div>e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@derndorfer.eu" target="_blank">christoph@derndorfer.eu</a></div><div><br></div></div><br>
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