Amy,
I'm delighted to hear that you will be able to help with the Chinese
translations.
You will find the process for translating explained here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Translate
And you can see the latest status of our translated documents here:
http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/zh/index.html
Song, Wang,
Do you have any suggestions for Amy with regards to the style you are
making use of in the translation?
On 30/04/2012 11:06 AM, Amy wrote:
Hi Cameron,
I'm not currently helping with FOSS4G. What you suggested sounds like
a perfect starting point for me and my team to get involved. We do
have translation skills. Please send me a few pages to be translated
and we can go from there. If you, Song, or Wang could also send me the
translated pieces for language style reference, that would be great!
Thanks,
Amy
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Cameron Shorter
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello Amy,
It is very kind of you to offer your services to help with FOSS4G
and OSGeo. I'm not sure if you have already been recruited into
the service of FOSS4G?
If you still have some spare volunteer time, one thing which Song,
Wang Jing have started, as part of running FOSS4G in Beijing, is
to translate the OSGeo-Live [1] documentation into Chinese.
This documentation provides a comprehensive high level overview of
the best Open Source Geospatial applications. And the OSGeo-Live
DVD is handed out at geospatial conferences and workshops around
the world, including at FOSS4g in Beijing.
Amy,
If you have the skills to translate into Chinese, then it would be
hugely valuable if you and your team could extend Song and Wang's
initial translations to be more comprehensive.
Are you interested?
[1] http://live.osgeo.org
On 17/04/2012 12:00 PM, Amy wrote:
Thanks a lot Tim!
Let me first introduce a little bit more about myself: My name
is Amy Gao. I'm the President of Spatial Front Inc., a Spatial IT
company located in Washington DC area. My clients are mainly U.S.
Federal agencies and Fortune 500 companies. We use both open
source software and commercial ones, but the use of open source
software is definitely on the rise. I was really impressed by the
good work from the nice, smart, and passionate people like Tim
and wish to contribute back to the open source community. A
handful of my employees are also native Chinese speakers. If
there's any way that I or my company can help, please don't
hesitate to let me know.
I will be on a business trip to China in July for a couple of
weeks. It would be great if I can meet with some of you in Beijing.
Thanks,
Amy
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Tim Schaub <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello,
I'd like to introduce Amy Gao to this group. I met Amy last
week at
the FOSS4G-NA conference - she lives and works in the
Washington DC
area. She expressed an interest in helping with the FOSS4G 2012
effort in any way she could. Amy is a native Chinese
speaker, and I
thought she might be able to help facilitate communication
between the
organizing committee and others within the OSGeo community.
Ang Gao, could you suggest a way that Amy might be able to
help with
the effort? If you have a list on your side that she could
subscribe
too, it might be a good way for her to get involved.
Amy, I cannot provide details on the various lists & people
copied
here - but I'm hoping that someone else copied here can help make
introductions. Can someone describe the purpose of the
[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> and
[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> and
suggest if Amy should sign up for either/both?
Thanks,
Tim
2012/4/15 OSGeo China <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
> Dear all,
>
> We are sorry about our slow progress in comparison with the
timeline that we set up in February. The current problem is
caused by the delay of our online conference management
system. About two months ago, we made a contract with a
company for system development. But our testing on this
system showed that there were some problems on the payment
part in registry system, and the abstract submission system
also did not run well. For safety, we have to postpone the
registry and call for papers.
>
> Now we are urging the development company to speed up,
meanwhile we are trying to find an alternative company as
soon as possible. We hope to fix it next week. The following
is a draft about our progress.
> (1) We have signed the contract with Beijing Conference
Center to be the conference venue.(Late February)
> (2) We negotiated with Beijing Conference Center and
achieved an about 10% discount on the hotel (4~5 star level)
for the participants who pay through the payment system set
up by LOC. (Late February)
> (3) The conference committees have been established (Middle
March)
> (4) We have got three Chinese sponsors, including Supermap,
LREIS, CAS. And several others are under contacting.
> (5) About 40% of OSGeo-Live Docs have been translated into
Chinese to promote OSGeo software in China. Both English and
Chinese versions are expected to be handed out in FOSS4G 2012.
> (6) The Foreign Liaison Office of Chinese Academy of
Sciences has granted LOC to invite foreign participants.
(Early April)
> (7) We had a meeting with Prof. John P. Wilson, the
editor-in-chief of TGIS on 12th April, and he would continue
to support FOSS4G-2012 academic paper publishing (Thank
Kobben and Helena for their past works).
> By the way, Dr. Ntin-Tripathi, the editor-in-chief of
International Journal of Geoinformatics, has also agreed to
support one special issue. He will be in Beijing in early
May, and we can further fix the details.
> (8) We will update the information of keynote speakers to
foss4g 2012 website soon.
>
> We apologize about our work again. Once the registry system
is well done, we will catch up our schedule fast.
>
> Best regards,
> Ang Gao
>
>
>
>
> OSGeo China
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