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[Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Javier SOLA <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> Sorry for not responding before. This week I was planning our entry in the
>> Bangladesh education system. We are working with the Prime Minister's
>> office, and it looks like we will be doing it with Ubuntu. For us having an
>> early choice of distribution is important, as we develop a large number of
>> tools (localization, textbooks, training materials, etc.).
>
> Glad to hear that work is progressing.
>
>> I was thinking that for good validation of the tool, having two countries
>> would be better than one, to ensure that we do not hard-code the specific
>> local needs of one system (falling in the same problem that you have now).
>> Doing some limited testing also in Bangladesh would give much better
>> information about what a flexible system should be like. The Bangladeshi
>> system goes from January to December. Their academic year follows the
>> calendar year. We also have a localization team there.
>
> Yes, certainly the more the merrier.
>
>> For Cambodia, we are ready to start localization. Could you please
>> facilitate the PO file(s)?
>
> We're doing a string freeze on our upcoming (October 29) release on
> Friday and are aiming to have new PO's up on Monday, so perhaps it
> might be better to wait a week, particularly because we're going to be
> re-organizing the templates on Launchpad to move more components into
> separate projects.
>
> On the other hand, work done on the current templates will be moved
> into new ones, so if you want to get started now, we manage the
> translations through Launchpad (you can, of course, export/import the
> templates to use whatever you want):
>
> https://translations.edge.launchpad.net/schooltool/development/+translations
>
> I'm cc:ing our development list, who can address any technical issues
> with translation.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Tom
>