Your page (http://www.openoffice.org/l10n/) refers people to the Wikipedia entry on "internationalization and localization". I am of course biased but that page is very dense and overly complicated. This page (http://www.lionbridge.com/solutions/software-localization/) gives a process oriented walk through of what you can expect from software localization. The behind the scenes methodology is explained takes a complicated subject and simplifies it for a learner. I hope you highly consider using this page as a resource.
Thanks Jim
