Hi Eike et al, Unfortunately I will not be able to attend OOoCon but i have been following this thread with great interest. If i get the chance to attend the next OOoCon I will be happy giving a presentation titled "Why OpenOffice.org has NOT been localized to 100 languages" :-)
I think that if we want to see OOo localization take off we need to understand why is moving as such as slow pace. I will love to hear about i18n framework, ICU, locale etc but I want you to reserve one single slide examining why OpenOffice.org is still a WALL for many localization "teams". I will love to see 100 languages in OpenOffice.org very soon and I am currently fighting to see some cash-flow to make it happen :-) but I am sure that you agree that OpenOffice.org is far from being a easy project to localize. I take the chance to thank you, Ivo, Pavel, ... for coping with my learning curve in the last months. Eike, send me the presentation, I will check for that slide. Alberto Escudero-Pascual > Hi, > > I started preparing my OOoCon presentation "i18n for l10n", here follows > what I sent in as an abstract: > > The presentation will talk about the internationalization of the > OpenOffice.org application suite, internationalization that enables the > software to run with different localizations, hence the title "i18n for > l10n". The presentation will not cover the steps of localization and > translation. Planned coverage is an overview of the history of the i18n > framework and its API, why it is there, what it does, how it developed, > how it interfaces with other components, for example the ICU > (International Components for Unicode), its relation with the CLDR > (Common Locale Data Repository), and how it is used by the applications. > I'll focus on how to add data and features for new locales, > extensibility and difficulties. Current obstacles and problems, ideas > how to solve them and other plans will give an outlook on what can be > done in the near and not so near future. Depending on the audience there > will be a more or less extensive Q&A session at the end. Since it is not > possible to cover all aspects in a 30-40 minutes presentation, I'll > gather topics and opinions on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list during > preparation to hopefully be able to satisfy the needs. > > > So my question now is: in addition to a general overview, what would > people like me to focus on? Bear in mind that a relatively short > presentation session can't offer a complete how-to, nor can it be > something like a workshop. But we can try to insert some lecture-style > 15 minutes or so. > > Eike > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
