On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Dwayne Bailey <dwa...@translate.org.za> wrote:
>
> Are you able to turn some of those into bugs? There is some amagama work
> I'd like to schedule and it would be nice to have them on file.
> Dwayne

Dwayne,

What is involved in become a contributing project to the Amagamma
dataset?  The Sugar Labs Pootle instance has a number of features that
might make it a good contributing source to Amagamma and I'd like to
explore that possiblity.

http://translate.sugarlabs.org/

1) Sugar strings tend to be fairly short (given the highly graphical
nature of the UI), this may help with finding partial matches to more
complex strings, as well as a lot of matches for simple declarative
commands (Edit, Copy, Paste, etc.) that are common across UIs.

2) As a fully-fledged UI, we have strings for our web-browser
(Browse), our simple word processor (Write) and a variety of other
Activities that cover a broad array of common functions.

3) We act as a host for AbiWord L10n, which would contribute some good
word processor strings that might be leveraged by other efforts.

4) Sugar Labs has some pretty extensive efforts going in languages
that are otherwise not well-represented in L10n.  Indigenous languages
of South and Central America represents an area of strength due to the
large OLPC deployments in those regions.  These efforts are being
match with efforts to create and upstream glibc locales for these
languages, which might lead to broader L10n efforts in upstream
projects.

5) A fair number of our localizers work off-line, and I encourage them
to use Virtaal at every opportunity.  Having our strings in Amagamma
would help with consistency.

I'd need to double-check with our L10n community to see how they feel
about it, but our strings are almost all GPL'ed (2 or 3), and I think
most of our localizers would be excited about contributing their Sugar
strings to a broader translation memory effort like Amagamma.

So what is involved in contributing our collected strings into the
Amagamma pool?  I'm hoping to get us upgraded to a 2.5 instance in the
near future if that would smooth the submission process.

Warmest Regards,

cjl
Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator

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