Thanks, Dan! And we really need to find someone more trustworthy to handle that stuff, eh? ;)
Much appreciated. Lori On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Dan Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
