Hello everyone, This week's Tech Team report[1] has a section called "Production" which has information on what we can see in OLPC-land in the near future, in terms of deployment. So, from that data, we are currently looking at the following languages/countries:
Rwanda: French Ethiopia: Amharic Haiti: Kreyole Peru/Uruguay: Spanish Cambodia: Khmer Afghanistan: Dari/Pashto Russia: Russian Nigeria: English Turkey: Turkish Brazil: Brazilian Portuguese One of the biggest challenges that we face now is ensuring that each of these languages are available in our software (Sugar), since it is of prime importance that kids get to interact with the software in a language they are familiar and comfortable with. Of these, support for some languages are in quite a good shape (Spanish, French, etc), while others like Amharic, Turkish, Russian need a lot of help. If you happen to know a second language, this is your chance to become heroes for a lot of children out there[2]. We need more and more translators pitching in to help us, and translation is perhaps one of the easiest way to get involved in the OLPC community, as well as the Free/Open Source Software community. Even if you can translate ten strings a day, your efforts will enable thousands of kids to receive a vastly improved education in their own language. A guide on how to get started with the translation is available at https://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/pootleforxo2.pdf, and you can always contact me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in case you need any kind of support. Thank you, Sayamindu [1] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/community-news/2008-June/000129.html [2] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-May/013694.html -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
