hey ...

I wrote a somewhat long blog with some thoughts about localizing the 
OpenSolaris website. It's a tad complex, I admit, but at least we now 
have a much better set of tools to work with (bugs and all we are making 
progress). Having said that, because we are really starting from 
scratch, there is a significant amount of opportunity for people in this 
community to contribute. This community has /already/ contributed a 
great deal (to auth, the website, and the distro) via CTI and other 
means, and people are very much noticing those contributions.

So, here's where I see things at the moment regarding the website:

http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/localizing_opensolaris_website_content

NOTE: We have an immediate need regarding Japanese. The XWiki 
application supports 21 languages but not Japanese. Now, it certainly 
supports the display of Japanese text, of course, but the app has not 
been localized for ja, and that's what we need for our implementation of 
XWiki on hub.opensolaris.org. Japanese is the #1 non English language 
hitting our site by far, and we'd like to have more content localized. 
So, if you are Japanese and you speak English and you'd like to make an 
utterly gigantic contribution to not only the OpenSolaris community in 
Japan, but to the XWiki community around the world, go to the XWiki 
website and help localize the application. I already told the XWiki 
community that I was going to ask our community to get involved, and as 
a result, they updated their l10n.xwiki.org website. :) It looks quite 
nice.

http://l10n.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/L10N/AddALanguage

And if you speak a language not listed among XWiki's 21 supported 
languages, the same opportunity is open to you. We'd love to support 
many more languages on the OpenSolaris website, but some of this work 
has to take place at XWiki as well. Personally, I think this is a 
wonderful opportunity for the communities to collaborate.

And in a few weeks, we should have a new auth resources file for 
updating. Look for that in CTI via Ales and the guys soon.

Thanks,

Jim

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