African Locales: for completion THIS MONTH

[Neskie Manuel]

Wow that seem like a big undertaking.  I would love to help, but I
can't speak any African languages, although my brother hase a name
from Tanzania.  If there is any way a non-native speaker can help then
I'd be glad to.

Since these are XML files are these what are used to Localise
OpenOffice.org?  I have a local in OO.o and even have a project starte
(http://shs.openoffice.org), but that's as much of the work I've got
done.  I am working on finishing the spellchecking dictionary for
OpenOffice.org.

I would like to know if I could make use of the code that produces the
following pages.  I could use this when the time comes for North
American Indigenous Languages.

http://www.it46.se/afrigen/statistics.php
http://www.it46.se/afrigen/view.php



On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Martin Benjamin <martin at kamusi.org> wrote:
> The African Network for Localization (ANLoc) is seeking immediate help
> to create Locales for 100 African languages. You can view a
> description of the project at http://www.it46.se/afrigen
>
> You can help in one of three ways:
> -> volunteer to work on a locale yourself (the project will help you
> every step of the way!)
> -> play matchmaker - introduce someone who can volunteer for their language
> -> spread the word - pass along this message to your networks, so that
> we increase the chances of finding volunteers for many different
> languages
>
> THIS YEAR'S DEADLINE to get new languages into the CLDR (Common
> Locales Data Repository), the international system used to produce all
> major software on the planet, is OCTOBER 1. So, we need to connect
> with people who speak languages from all over Africa.  And, we need to
> complete each locale THIS MONTH.
>
> The full list of languages currently in the project is at
> http://www.it46.se/afrigen/statistics.php . If your favorite language
> shows any red in any of the bars next to it, please volunteer to help
> complete the locale!
>
> It's easy to volunteer - just send an email to
> locales at africanlocalization.net
>
> The interface to build a locale in your favorite African language is
> available in English, French, and Swahili. Building a locale only
> takes a couple of hours. Please tell your friends, tell your
> colleagues, tell your networks!
>
> A quick, true story - one Friday last month, someone in Nairobi took a
> couple of minutes to provide an introduction between the Locales
> project and a colleague of theirs working on the Kreole Morisyen
> language of Mauritius.  A few emails were exchanged, and by Monday the
> Morisyen locale was 90% finished.  By the end of that week, the locale
> was complete.  On October 1, this locale will be submitted to CLDR.
> By early next year, Morisyen will be forevermore part of the universe
> of languages available for information technology development.
>
> It just takes one person and a couple of hours to finish a locale for
> a language, but it takes a lot of villagers on the web to find that
> one person.  Thanks in advance for volunteering, for introducing
> contacts, and/or for passing along this message!
>



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