On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 05:01:53PM -0800, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote: > Does anyone have any wild ideas about what it might cost to fund the > translation of Evergreen into another challenge (OPAC only). I'm wondering > about Chinese. Any ideas at all? > > Is it in the range of $20,000-$50,000? > $50,000-$100,000? > > More?
If you're talking about just the strings that you would find in the JSPAC such as opac.dtd, opac.js, searcher.js, and db.seed (as found in https://translations.launchpad.net/evergreen/master/+lang/zh_CN), then you're looking at 7,000 words or so. (At 4,500 words, db.seed contains way more than just the words needed for the OPAC, so you could try to be selective about what gets translated, but let's go with the top limit for the purposes of this exercise.) Let's also assume that you're going with a translation service instead of friendly volunteers filling in the translation on Launchpad. Take a raw estimate of $0.25/word from a place like http://blog.globalizationpartners.com/software-translation-services.aspx (that post mentions $0.20/word, but we'll inflate a bit; $0.25 / word was the rate that was being fetched by fairly specialized translators years ago) and you're at $1,750 for raw translation. >From there, you might also want to include some testing and QA of the translation, some project management fees, and likely some customization of the interface to accomodate longer/different strings. Don't forget that at some point, the translation eventually needs to get rolled into an Evergreen release, although the person who currently does that manual process is untrustworthy [1]. 1. http://markmail.org/message/tq6cuswsakxtyvsc
