hi guys, I have just uploaded the l10n glossary which was used earlier for various localization projects to our website.
Hope it will help in maintaining a sort of uniformity in localization I have also added link to in wiki for later reference. http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=FOSS_Nepal_Community#Resources http://fossnepal.org/docs/l10n/l10nglossary.ods On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Saroj Dhakal <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I had begun localization of OSM in Nepali in translatewiki.net . > > If anyone want to help in localization , making it readable and > comprehensible to lots of people without knowledge of English ,you people > also can help OSM in that regards as well. > > Would it be possible to share the knowledge to the broadcast audience > scattered in the different corners of the world ? That would be great if > possible . > > Thanks for coming up for sharing ! Keep your good work up ! > > Thanks, > Saroj > > On Jun 27, 2011, at 9:19 PM, Nama Budhathoki <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Prabhas, > > Thanks for bringing <http://www.openstreetmap.org>www.openstreetmap.org(OSM) > to this list. > > I studied openstreetmap for my PhD dissertation at the University of > Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and will be happy to share my experience. I > will be in Kathmandu in the second week of July. Let me know if you are > interested to meet face-to-face and discuss more on this. > > Nama > > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Prabhas Pokharel > <<[email protected]> > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey FOSS community, >> I am reaching out because I wanted to work on developing OSM >> (<http://openstreetmap.org> >> http://openstreetmap.org)[1] further for Nepal, and we have some interest >> from organizations who own significant GIS data to donate that to OSM. >> >> Once everything becomes a bit clearer, I also want to reach out to the >> larger group, and see if there is interest to give demos of OSM, how to >> edit, why OSM is cool, and building FOSS map software using OSM as base >> layer. >> *But before then*, I wanted to reach out to ask if anyone has already >> been working on OSM-related activities in Nepal, and can assist us (I have >> been working with Jwalanta Shrestha and Jitendra Harlalka a bit) with the >> process of finalizing both the data donation process and the data import. >> What I am looking for is someone who either already has OSM/GIS experience, >> or who wants to build some of that knowledge (not hard to do), or just loves >> maps. Basiclaly, we will create a small team that will then continue the >> process of finalizing this process of data import, and make OSM a very >> viable and usable base layer of maps for Nepal. >> >> So, whos in? >> >> [1] - OpenStreetMap, for those who don't know is the freely editable and >> community maintained map of the world, the Wikipedia of maps, if you would. >> It is the basis of any FOSS mapping applications, because it has generic >> licensing terms (did you know that you can't make offline cache of google >> map images?) and is community maintained like FOSS projects. In fact, many >> FOSS groups around the world have OSM as one of their primary activities. >> >> Prabhas Pokharel >> <http://twitter.com/prabhasp>http://twitter.com/prabhasp >> Nepal mobile: +977 98137 91044 >> US mobile: +1 347 948 7654 >> skype/facebook/whatever: prabhasp >> >> -- >> FOSS Nepal mailing list: <[email protected]> >> [email protected] >> <http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal> >> http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <foss-nepal%[email protected]> >> [email protected] >> >> Mailing List Guidelines: >> <http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines> >> http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines >> Community website: <http://www.fossnepal.org/>http://www.fossnepal.org/ >> > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Nama R. Budhathoki, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA > Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, McGill University, Canada > <http://budhathoki.wordpress.com>http://budhathoki.wordpress.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Imagination is more important than knowledge." 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