Fw: [libreoffice-l10n] L10n team meeting at next LOCon

Hi All.
This email is being forwarded to l10n mailing list as advised by Sophie so that others also can 
have their say on this mail thread. 
Regards,Chandrakant Dhutadmal.Pune, India.

      On Sunday, February 22, 2015 4:22 PM, Sophie <gautier.sophie@gmail.com> wrote:
   

 Hi Chandrakant,
Le 20/02/2015 08:03, chandrakant dhutadmal a écrit :
> On Friday, February 20, 2015 12:18 PM, chandrakant dhutadmal
> <cpdhutadmal@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Sophie.
>
> I hope you remember me :)

yes, I remember you :)
> This email is basically to inform you that me and Rajesh Ranjan are
> interested in joining the meeting of l10n teams on 22nd sept followed
> by attending LibreOffice conference during 23rd to 25th September
> 2015 at Boston.
That's a great news but note that the conference is in Denmark, at Aarhus.
> We have few  points to discuss so as to take ahead localization and
> marketing of Libre Office in India.
>
> 1. How to localize Libre Office for languages which have been rarely
> looked at. (Basically languages like Santali, Bodo, Dogri, Kashmiri,
> Sindhi, Konkani, Manipuri, Sanskrit, etc). I have been able to manage
> teams for submitting partial translations for some of these languages
> (Can be seen from pootle). This needs a boost. We need to sit with
> l10n drivers in Document Foundation for discussions on this aspect.
>
> 2. We are deeply involved in project called FUEL which stands for
> Frequently used entries for Localization. This project is all about
> the standardization of terminologies used for translations. Currently
> more than 65 languages across the world are with us on this.
> Recently, Mozilla foundation has accepted FUEL as one of their
> linguistic resources for localizing Firefox and other softwares and
> projects. We wish to look at the possibility of use of this project
> for localizing Libre Office.
>
> 3. How to take the localized softwares to Indian people (Individuals,
> Govt, Non-Govt, NGOs, etc) ?  As it is evident from one of our
> previous reports, localization teams will be very helpful in taking
> this software to the respective community.
>
> 4. Off course we will be happy to meet other localization teams and
> interact with them to learn about their experiences and about means
> of doing things in a better way.

Great and important points, I would be very happy and interested to
discuss all that with you and the others during our meeting. Could you
post them also to the l10n list so others can react and add their points
too?
> We will require funds for our travel and accomodation, in case you
> feel our participation will make any positive impact of localization
> and Libre Office.

Your participation will be highly appreciated :) Note that you will have
to pay for your travel and accommodation first and will be reimbursed
after the conference.
Kind regards
Sophie
> Thanks and Regards,
>
> Chandrakant Dhutadmal
>
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 3:18 PM, Sophie
> <gautier.sophie@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> You know that the next LibreOffice conference will be in Aarhus in 
> Denmark from 23rd to 25th September. For first information see here 
> http://conference.libreoffice.org/
>
> There is also what we call an 'internal day' on the 22nd dedicated
> to team meetings. I would very much like that we have a meeting
> between l10n (and NLPs at large) teams this year. There is no better
> way to solve and push things than gathering together. So please book
> the date in your agenda. TDF can help your for travel/accommodation
> refunds.
>
> What I'm thinking about is: - the new Pootle version, what to
> enhance, fix - guide translation via OmegaT/GitHub - if needed a
> workshop on the l10n work like installing KeyID, search for strings,
> ... - future of the localization: help files, extended tooltips,
> etc. - your ideas :)
>
> Let me know if you are willing to come at the conference, then we
> will be able to organize our time together at best. Cheers Sophie


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