2009/6/26 Walter Bender <[email protected]>: > There are three separate topics woven into one in your plan: > > (1) Completing the translations for 0.84. It seems you have a handle on that. Světlana, You might want to contact Ali(CCed) Kolahi, Ahari FLOSS Manuals Manager, Christchurch New Zealand
Ali Kolahi is the Manager of the Farsi FLOSS Manuals community (http://fa.flossmanuals.net). Ali is Iranian by birth but currently manages the community from New Zealand. Ali is do a great job developing a Farsi translation community. He has expressed interest in working more closely at translating Sugar david > (2) Getting the translations packaged into a Sugar on a Stick image. I > think Sebastian can help with that once the translations are pushed to > git. > (3) Getting Sugar on a Stick booting properly on the OLPC XO-1 > computer. We need to double-check on the status of that--it has been > known to work, but needs to be tested and better documented for your > use case. Also, unless I am mistaken, we'll need to get developer keys > for each of these machines. > > regards. > > -walter > > 2009/6/22 Světlana Senajová <[email protected]>: >> Dear Chris and Sameer, >> >> This is Svetla from OLPC Afghanistan, former technical implementation >> manager, current implementation manager is Dr. Musa (on CC). We are directly >> in touch with Carol Silver Ruth and she has initiated contact with Sugar >> Labs. We plan to deploy 50 XOs in home schools in villages near Kabul and >> provide kids and parents with the USB sticks so every single one of them >> would have his/her own environment and files and XOs would serve as >> "computer stations". >> >> We have very limited bandwith in Kabul to be able to send localized versions >> of Sugar 0.82 in Dari and Pashto by email. However all our localized PO >> files are on Pootle as you know. We plan to start working on localization of >> 0.84 version in upcoming week or two, but this doesn't allow us enough time >> for having it ready and put it all together before Carol arrives to Kabul. >> >> Please let me know what needs to be done so that we can have localized Sugar >> on a Stick. >> >> Thanks / Regards, >> >> Svetla >> [email protected] >> +420 728 878 881 (till 29th June) >> +93 796 505 768 (from 30th June) >> >> >> Dr. Musa - current technical implementation manager >> +93 707 729 295, +93 774 605 794 >> >> >> >> 2009/6/21 Chris Leonard <[email protected]> >>> >>> Sameer, >>> >>> My strong suggestion is to point Jim Stockford and Carol Ruth Silver at >>> the OLPC Afghanistan team and have them reach out directly. >>> >>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Afghanistan >>> >>> OLCP Afghanistan has done great work on the translation of the Sugar >>> interface into Dari and Pashto as you can see at these links to the >>> translation system: >>> >>> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/fa_AF/index.html >>> >>> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ps/index.html >>> >>> The only hitch I can see is that Pashto might need a little work on the >>> Sugar 0.84 PO files (probably needed for SoaS) as OLCP Afghanistan's efforts >>> have focused on the Sugar 0.82 PO files (as appropriate to the build they >>> will be deploying on their XO laptops. However, most of the strings are in >>> common between 0.82 and 0.84, so it is less work than it might seem to >>> leverage the work already accomplished. >>> >>> OLPC Afghanistan's Sohaib Obaidi Ebtihaj (copied on this message) has been >>> quite active in interacting with the wider Sugar / OLPC community through >>> the Localization list: >>> >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization >>> >>> Direct contact between these two groups would be the shortest route to >>> address necessary technical details (e.g. locale information, fonts, etc.) >>> that have already gotten some attention by the OLPC Afghanistan team. >>> >>> cjl >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Sameer Verma <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Forwarding request from Carol Ruth Silver >>>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Ruth_Silver) and Jim Stockford >>>> (http://www.sf-lug.org/). This is a big opportunity for SoaS >>>> deployment in Farsi and Pashto. I'm heading out to Jamaica for their >>>> pilot, so my bandwidth is a bit limited for the next few days. Please >>>> cc them on replies. >>>> >>>> cheers, >>>> Sameer >>>> -- >>>> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. >>>> Associate Professor of Information Systems >>>> San Francisco State University >>>> San Francisco CA 94132 USA >>>> http://verma.sfsu.edu/ >>>> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ >>>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: jim <[email protected]> >>>> Date: Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:22 AM >>>> Subject: sugar on a stick localized in farsi or pashto or both >>>> To: Sameer Verma <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi, Sameer, >>>> regarding carol ruth silver's upcoming trip >>>> to afghanistan, i'm hoping we can get sugar on >>>> a stick localized in both farsi and pashto: >>>> best case a single stick would boot and ask >>>> the user to choose either; having a grub-like >>>> menu choice would be good; having it come up >>>> in one but allow re-tuning to the other would >>>> be okay; having two different sticks, one in >>>> farsi and the other in pashto would be >>>> acceptable. >>>> do you know anyone in sugarlabs that can <---- >>>> facilitate getting us something approximating >>>> the above fast? >>>> jim >>>> 415 823 4590 my cellphone, call anytime >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Localization mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Localization mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization >> >> > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) 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