Re: [libreoffice-l10n] New language request

Hi again,

I'm sorry to reply so late, work is demanding a lot before Christmas from me.
I agree that it is not very professional to have no Impressum on my page.
Sadly I don't have enough time right now to do it because of my work.
I will finish it as soon as I can though.

I wrote on the Bavarian Wikipedia page, but it got turned down because they don't seem to want to 
put any effort in creating a standard.
The way I see it is that we Bavarians have a chance to create a standard that actually fits our 
language, rather than taking what kinda (but not really) works and leave it at that because it 
doesn't require effort.
Reading Bavarian standard might be hard to do in the beginning, but so it is with every language 
you read for the first time.

I'm not alone, I have several people contributing with ideas and so far we discuss and decide what 
word should be written how.
Bavarian might be a collection of dialects and there is certainly no pleasing all of them, but the 
standard we create is pleasing most dialects most of the times.

As I said, due to work overflow I probably won't be able to contribute much this year, but after 
the holiday seasons are over I should have enough time once again. I know that as a one man team 
(with occasional helpers) I will be very slow, but I hope to achieve some sort of snowball effect 
by convincing more Bavarians that something is being done, which will draw in more people, which 
leads to the project being completed sooner.

In the end it's up to you to accept or not, but I really rather see a Bavarian standard created 
through active discussions and logic than one created by using standard German as template. I 
believe that there will be a Bavarian standard at some point and I just try my best to guide it in 
the right direction.

On 8 December 2015 17:37:18 +01:00, Sophie <gautier.sophie@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Le 08/12/2015 17:06, Christian Lohmaier a écrit :
>
> > Hi *,
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Greater Worcester Land Trust
> > <<colin@gwlt.org>> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello list,
> > > I read in the FAQ that you post here to request a new language effort.
> > > I am looking to start work on a Nipmuck localization.
> > I share the same reservations as with Bavarian - here probably even
> > little more so, as if the language is already listed as "extinct" in
> > wikipedia, I fail to see the point.
> >
> > Better translate some literature to that language than the UI of a
> > software package...
> I agree with Christian here, LibreOffice is a very huge project, you
> will have a lot of concepts to define to create the right translation
> and a very long work on the glossary before beginning. If you really
> want to do localization, then try to find a lighter project, maybe like
> Firefox, which have less dialog boxes and globally less strings to
> translate. Or like Chistian said, translating documentation may be an
> alternative to begin.
> In any case, don't feel sad by our reaction, it's really to prevent you
> to waste your time on a project you will never finish, better to begin
> smaller and be happy to see the result than never see it and feel
> exhausted.
> If you need contacts with the Mozilla l10n team in case you're
> interested or other open source teams, let me know, I'll help you to
> reach their communities.
> Cheers
> Sophie
>
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