“The first thing you should do if you want to get more involved is to introduce yourself on the mailing list […]” — http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Contributing
My name is Adrián Chaves Fernández, although in free software projects I usually go by the nickname Gallaecio, and I’m going to start looking into using Apertium for a little project, which might lead me to contribute to the en-gl pair or to Apertium itself. I already got Apertium working locally, and I am now reading the wiki to get familiar with the documentation, and hopefully find some information on how to solve the first issue that I have found in en-gl. If I cannot find out how to deal with it, I will probably be sending a second email to the mailing list pretty soon. That’s it, now I’m going to explain what my project consists on and why I started. You might want to stop reading at this point. So, last weekend I attended the first “Iberian Meeting of Translators of Free Software into Minoritized Languages”¹, where translators of free software into Aragonese, Asturian, Basque, Catalan, and Galician met to discuss our common problems and join forces towards solving them. We discussed several topics, and during one of those discussions, someone suggested the idea of using Apertium to translate documentation. Using automated translation software to translate a product is regarded as a sin by every single translator that I have had the pleasure to meet, including myself, however everyone agrees as well that translating documentation is a real PITA. Using Apertium to translate documentation and manually reviewing the resulting translation would: * Make translating documentation easier, as we would no longer need to translate the documentation, but only review the automated translation. * Allow us to detect issues in Apertium, giving us the opportunities to fix them, thus contributing to a great free software project. Hence, I’ve started working on using the following stack to translate the KDE documentation into Galician: * apertium-po-l10n (https://github.com/rory/apertium-po-l10n) * Apertium * en-gl pair As I find issues, I will fix them on either of those three layers, and I might add a new layer with some custom Python scripts if I need something for this project that does not fit in either of the previous layers. See you around :) — ¹ http://encontro.trasno.net/ (in Galician mainly, but also in other Iberian languages) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
