Agreed, Ed. The legalities of each country need to be determined and met before we can include that country in a Give One Get One program.
Some of the things we need to understand are: Certifications, language/keyboard requirements, messaging, non-profit status, shipping, customs, support and warranties. I believe these issues (and perhaps more) will be different for almost every country. Kim On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Kim Quirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Adam and Support gang, >> >> A second G1G1 program will still be only US/International keyboards >> (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Keyboard_layouts#US_International_keyboard). >> There are too many logistics, production, forecasting, and shipping >> issues associated with more than a couple of SKUs (different laptop >> configurations) for a G1G1 program. > > I don't know whether that is acceptable to Europe. They want Cyrillic > (Bulgarian and Serbian layouts are completely different from each > other and from Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian, which are all quite > similar), Greek, and Eastern European (Czech, Slovak, Polish...are > nearly identical), at least. I can look up the standard layouts in > more detail if that will help. You need to specify exactly which > countries will be included in your version of Europe. Lithuania, > Latvia, and Estonia are EU members. So are Malta and Cyprus. Turkey is > a candidate. Croatia, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, > Montenegro, and Albania are not members. > > You had better get the lawyers to check out EU regulations on computer > sales. I suppose that you can get away with printing only US > International on the keyboard as long as you say so, very clearly, in > the announcements and ads, and explain how to access the other layouts > in a document shipped with the laptops. > >> But, from a languages perspective, It would be great to point >> translators for European languages (or any languages) to various ways >> in which they can help translate our wiki pages and add to the product >> translations through Pootle. > > IFYP > >> Here are some links: >> Localization of XO files: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Localization >> Translating wiki pages: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Translating > Pootle page, including table of localizers: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pootle > Pootle: http://dev.laptop.org/translate > Localization mailing list at http://lists.laptop.org/ > >> Thanks, >> Kim >> >> >> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Adam Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Dear Kim, >>> >>> Can we get some preliminary discussion going in the next couple weeks, >>> towards helping people set up fuller support >>> structure for those European languages? > > Talk to me about any language support issues that management isn't handling. > >>> Or if nothing else, an idea as to how many EU countries are liable to be >>> supported for 2008's G1G1? >>> >>> Whether it's 2 countries or 12 countries makes all the world of difference > > Uh, actually there are 27 countries in the EU, and 8 candidates. > Non-members include Switzerland, Norway, and the new countries formed > from former Yugoslavia (except Slovenia). > >>> ;) >>> --A! > > %-[ > > -- > Edward Cherlin > End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business > http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ > "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
