A 2014-10-10 21:26, Adrian Chaves Fernandez escrigué:
> “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.

Great! :D

> 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.

We would encourage anyone using Apertium to get in contact with us if 
they need
any help. :)

> 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.

This is a fantastic idea. Would you like commit access so you can commit 
directly
to the repository ? If so, let us know your SourceForge username.

Fran

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