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Re: Making Ubuntu available in 50 languages

 

Forwarding to Ubuntu-BD mailing list as well.
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Shabab Mustafa



On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:08 AM, mak <mahayalamkhan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello David,
>
> For the last several days, I've been translating and trying to reach the
> 80% mark. As I'm translating offline and uploading to launchpad.net it's
> not adding any karma for me, bad :). Will be doing until you freeze
> translation. I don't have any idea how many people are subscribe to this
> list, that's why I'm going to spread the plea through IMs, twit and FB
> message to the community. I was planning a translation sprint for 11.10 but
> failed. Hope will do for 12.04.
>
> Finger crossed.
> mak_
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:09 PM, David Planella <david.planella@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yesterday I sent this e-mail to the Ubuntu Translators mailing list, but
>> as Bengali is on the list of languages that are near the 80% translated
>> mark, I thought I'd contact you directly.
>>
>> With just a bit of effort, it'd be awesome that Bengali would be
>> in the list of Ubuntu's fully translated languages.
>>
>> You are very near of reaching 80%, and I believe with just a few
>> translations more you could get on the list before the 6th of October.
>>
>> You can see the most important packages to concentrate on here:
>> http://people.canonical.com/~dpm/stats/ubuntu-11.10-translation-stats.html
>>
>> (you can click on each language to see the translations that need
>> attention there)
>>
>> Thanks for making Ubuntu accessible to many many users with your
>> translations!
>>
>> >From the original post [1]:
>>
>> Quoting the Ubuntu philosophy, one of our  core values is to provide the
>> ability for every computer user to use Ubuntu in their language of
>> choice. This in turn is made possible by an army of volunteer
>> translators, who throughout the development cycle and beyond, tirelessly
>> put their translation skills to work in an outstanding feat to make a
>> full operating system accessible to millions.
>>
>> As we’re ramping up to the Ubuntu 11.10 release in a few day’s time,
>> there’s another important milestone for ensuring Ubuntu is available in
>> as many languages as possible: the translations deadline on the 6th of
>> October.
>>
>> Up until now, and considering the 80% coverage cut-off, Ubuntu 11.10,
>> the Oneiric Ocelot, is translated in 38 languages, lead by the Slovenian
>> team’s heroic effort of becoming the #1 team in the ranking.
>>
>> Making Oneiric the best translated Ubuntu release ever
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Last cycle Ubuntu was fully translated in 43 languages. I think this
>> cycle we should be able to aim for more, and I’m confident that with
>> everyone’s help we could reach the 50 fully translated languages mark.
>>
>> There are a few languages that are very close to reaching the 80%
>> translation level:
>>
>>        Basque, Latvian, Hebrew, Uyghur, Albanian, Estonian, Bengali,
>>        Punjabi
>>
>> And others which might need an extra push to climb up the 60% to 70%
>> mark to reach 80%:
>>
>>        Serbian Latin, Hindi, Indonesian, Tamil, Thai, Telugu, Slovak,
>>        Arabic, Belarusian, Gujarati
>>
>> So if you speak any of these or other languages, here’s what you can do
>> to help yours reach the 80% level and make it to the list of supported
>> languages:
>>
>>     1. Go to the Ubuntu 11.10 translation statistics page [2]
>>     2. Click on your language to find out which packages need attention
>>     3. Find those packages in the list of Ubuntu translations [3]
>>     4. Translate them!
>>              * You’ll want to contact the translation team for your
>>                language [4] or check out their documentation to ensure
>>                you’re using a consistent terminology
>>              * They’ll also help you get started with translations and
>>                answer your questions
>>
>> Note: statistics are updated daily at 12:00 UTC
>>
>> More on translations
>> --------------------
>>
>>      * If you want to learn more about translating Ubuntu check out our
>>        Translations quickstart guide [5]
>>      * If you want to get in you can follow us on e-mail, on Facebook,
>>        identi.ca, twitter and in other ways [6]
>>
>> And now for something different
>> -------------------------------
>>
>> If there is any web guru out there who’d like to lend a hand, help with
>> the CSS and the JS code for the stats page [7] would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>> One cool thing I’d like to do for instance is for translators to, once
>> they’ve clicked on their language, be able to click on a package that
>> needs attention and be taken to the corresponding Launchpad Translations
>> page. This only needs the corresponding rows in the table to be
>> linkified, which is something I’ve been struggling with and I’m sure
>> would be a five-minute job for an experienced web developer.
>>
>> So if you want to help translators with your web skills, drop a comment
>> here or feel free to submit a bzr branch [8]. Thanks!
>>
>> Looking forward to the best translated Ubuntu release ever! :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David.
>>
>> [1]
>>
>> http://davidplanella.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/making-ubuntu-available-in-50-languages/
>> [2]
>> http://people.canonical.com/~dpm/stats/ubuntu-11.10-translation-stats.html
>> [3] https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/
>> [4] https://translations.launchpad.net/+groups/ubuntu-translators
>> [5] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/QuickStartGuide
>> [6] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/Contact
>> [7]
>>
>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~dpm/ubuntu-translations/ul10n-stats/files/head:/data/
>> [8] https://code.launchpad.net/~dpm/ubuntu-translations/ul10n-stats
>>
>> --
>> David Planella
>> Ubuntu Translations Coordinator
>> www.ubuntu.com / www.davidplanella.wordpress.com
>> www.identi.ca/dplanella / www.twitter.com/dplanella
>>
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