[Chapter-delegates] Fwd: Pootling along nicely

[Alan Levin]

Hi,

This community project is run by a few ISOC-ZA members together with  
many global participants. well worth considering participating in...

> Just though I'd give you an update on a translation tool. At the  
> very least visit http://pootle.wordforge.org/ and translate Pootle  
> into your mother-tongue. In 2004 we created the first version of  
> our online translation tool called Pootle. Pootle is used for  
> translating software GUIs but can also be used to translate  
> documents and other content. NOTE it is NOT and automatic translator.
>
> Pootle has grown in leaps and bounds since then. This year with  
> funding from OSI and shortly IDRC we have taken it to the next  
> level.  We are beginning to integrate feature to allow better  
> management of the items being translated turning it into a  
> translation management system (TMS).  We are seeing it being used  
> by more and more people.  Since it is Open Source and therefor  
> anyone can install a copy, it has been interesting to see where we  
> see new copies popping up.
>
> At the iCommons conference in Brazil we met with people from  
> Creative Commons and had a copy of Pootle up and running by the end  
> of the day. See: http://translate.creativecommons.org/ and the  
> article about how it happened http://icommons.org/2006/07/20/a- 
> pootle-for-cc-software/
>
> Open Source is also about a community and contributing to scratch  
> your own itch, to solve your own problems.  Pootle did not do right- 
> to-left languages very well, simply because none of the developers  
> needed it. That is until a group focusing on Arab localization got  
> involved, identified bugs and helped us to fix them. They scratched  
> their own itch. But yet their effort helped people who speak  
> Hebrew, Farsi, Pashtu and other other languages.
>
> In the future we hope to make it very easy to localize content, so  
> you might want to stay up to date with the progress of the software by
> joining this mailing list: http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/ 
> listinfo/translate-announce
>
> If haven't done so already please visit http://pootle.wordforge.org  
> and translate Pootle into your mother-tongue.

warm regards,

Alan


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