Hi! My name is Ahmad Farghal, I'm from Egypt, I have been a subscriber of this list and a member of the wiki for a few days now, I would love to join the Gnome translation team.
I was originally planning on waiting about a month before requesting membership to become more accustomed to how you do things, and I also have my term exams coming up in January, but If the deadline is that near and you guys need all the help you can get maybe I can start now and assign a portion of my time for translation, and after the exams I can work full-time. Yes, I have no life ;-).
I have had a brief history translating Windows software (Opera, PopTray, RuMSX, and other small utilities) and I have been a full-time linux user for about a year now (though I still dual-boot).
I see that Evolution is not fully translated up till now, and I would like to get my hands on it if that's OK, though if you need me on other files I don't mind.
So, now what? If I'm accepted someone will send me a .po file or what? I already have gTranslator installed. (any of you have better recommendations btw?).
Final question: if Gnome 2.18 is translated fully at release time, does that mean that Feisty Fawn (next Ubuntu release) will be fully arabized? that would be sweet :-) )
2006/12/20, Djihed Afifi <djihedlists at googlemail dot com>:
Saleh, Welcome to Arabeyes!
If you want to work on Gnome, then this is the right time :)
But first, about Arabeyes. It's a meta projct helping to join people
together to work on arabisation projects: translation and development.
There are various projects, some being very active and some slightly
active, and some active now and then. In particular, translation
projects are usually quite active.
I understand you would like to work on Gnome: Welcome!
first, please read this page for some highlights:
http://wiki.arabeyes.org/Gnome
We are at 92.26% for Gnome 2.16, and 87% for 2.18. We are hoping to
finish the remaining for gnome
2.16 within this week, and your help can
make that very possible. After that, we can work on 2.18 to ship the
first complete arabic Gnome at release time for some time.
Browse these pages and you will see the remaining files:
http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.16/ar/index.html
You can start working right away. Currently, the developer-libs packages
are unassigned. Feel free to pick any of them.
Contrary to Rosetta, we don't use an online interface, you will have to
download an application to edit the po files. I recommand poedit, but
plenty of people like KBabel. Remember that your translations are also
carried to the other distributions when they make release, I'm also an
ubuntu user.
Happy translation! and again, welcome to the Gnome team. At any time,
please feel free to ask question, people are quite friendly around here.
Djihed
> A little about myself.. Well, nothing much to tell really.. OSS
> localization-wise, Ive been working on Ubuntu Launchpad Gnome
> translation for about 9 months now.. So i think i have a bit of an
> idea of how that works.. Would be interested in starting out with
> something familiar to me.. so Gnome does sound like an OK entry
> point.. What i was interested in knowing, ( this question might seem
> a bit crude..), is how the Arabeyes project is organized as a meta
> project? Is it Distro specific? is it Desktop Environment
> specifc..etc? ( i.e would i be able to translate packages for both
> Suse and Debian for instance? - regardless of the desktop
> environment?-, and where would each be kept), how are baselines
> released?
>
> I have to admit i still havent taken a thorough look at the
> documentation that was linked to me, I'm planning to do so over this
> weekend. Apologies if what i asked is already explained there.
>
>
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