Hello,
Not sure exactly who to talk to, but felt this was a possible place to
suggest/ask.
During my recent research into providing multi-lingual capabilities to
a mobile openSUSE application, I determined what is likely current
"Best Practice" while also exploring pretty much most of the history
of what has been "Standard Operating Practice" leading up to now.
I determined that until a couple years ago, there were movements and
enormous efforts dedicated to creating custom solutions for each
application, although there were efforts to standardize rormats and
methods(eg i18n), there was still the problem building a library of
translations.
Then, enter the major Search Engines. Although some Search Engines
like Yahoo created tools like Babelfish more than a decade ago, only
recently the leading Search Engines(primarily Google, and recently
Microsoft) have recognized the treasure trove of multi-lingual data
they store and also recognized their own needs to serve a
multi-lingual world.
That led to exposing their data for 3rd party use through APIs and in
some cases even self-contained software components.
Of course, this should be of extreme interest to a collection of
Products and Services like SUSE and openSUSE... and also the way that
different people communciate within openSUSE on Mailing Lists, Wikis
and more... Everyone communicates using their own language but that
always excludes people using other languages. Our Forums are
segregated by language, the wisdom and knowledge in one forum isn't
available to any in another language. A supposed International mailing
list like openSUSE Marketing is only in English, and if someone
actually posts in another language it's unlikely most people on the
List would understand the post...
All those and much more should be addressable by a comprehensive
effort to integrate State of Art multi-lingual tools, fully integrated
into Products (like the openSUSE OS), Services (like the Open Build
Service), and communications (like Mail Lists and Help Forums).
To see only a simple example of what I'm describing, you can see the
demo I quickly whipped up at
http://putztzu.github.com/demos/opensuse-translate.html
For that demo, I used Google's translation service which supports over
60 languages. I can guarantee you I don't personally write or speak
nearly all of them but anything I write using that technology would be
instantly understood by practically the entire world's population. BTW
- This particular demo also supports dynamic (changing) data in any
variety of source language (the original text doesn't have to be just
one language or any specified language).
Based on the openSUSE mailing list archives, it also looks like the
openSUSE OS struggles to be available in only a half dozen
languages... Wouldn't it be cool to support practically any language
in the world instead?
If this is something openSUSE would like to explore and implement, I'm
willing to manage an effort to implement full worldwide globalization
in all openSUSE products and services... Of course something like this
would be very big -- Although it would require considerable effort and
collaboration, and of course touches just about everything about
openSUSE, I consider this very achievable.
Am open to building a roadmap, identifying necessary legals, people,
projects and people who would need to be brought into such an effort.
I feel I have a suitable background for managing this kind of
project, over 10 years Project Management, Network Architect and
Developer building cutting edge and bleeding edge software solutions,
typically including mobile devices and distributed solutions involving
data translations and Business Intelligence.
Tony
PS. Noting this List will be closed down in favor of using
"opensuse-project" -- Should I re-post on that List?
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Hello my dear friends of the community
Our wallpaper submission deadline for openSUSE 12.2 is now over. We
asked a few of our artists to help us create a good selection of
wallpapers for the upcoming release. Our deadline was fixed very early
since the wallpaper is has become a key element in creating derivative
artwork, such as Twitter banners, Facebook profile pictures, DVD
sleeves and many other things. Hence our early date, we wanted to work
on our artwork early enough so that we can make more derivative
artwork faster and with improved quality.
We understand that there may be people in the community who have
worked on wallpapers for 12.2 and have not yet submitted them to the
wallpaper artwork page located here
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Wallpapers
If you know of anyone who is worked on a wallpaper and would like to
submit them, please let us know via email. You can reply to this email
to let us know as well. That way we can include everyone who wanted to
give this contest a try. If no there are no replies by Monday January
23, 2012, we will assume that such wallpapers cannot make it into the
contest.
Another change we made this time is that we will choose one default
wallpaper and then two other wallpapers as extras in case users would
not want to use the default wallpaper. For this I am trying to find
out what packages can carry the default wallpaper and what package can
carry the other 2 wallpapers chosen. Please, if you know, post it on
this email thread. I believe coolo might now, would you let us know
what is more recommendable in case we want to include more wallpapers?
As usual, you can review the wallpapers on the page mentioned above
and start voting just like it was done last time.
One more thing, thank you so much artists for your great and valuable
work. openSUSE should look pretty awesome after your contributions
made it to the release. Thank you again.
PS: My emails are imperfect. I may have omitted important information.
If so, please add it to this thread.
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Hi,
I'm on my weekend trip and heading back to Prague now, but it looks like
I might not be able to make it on time to catch our morning meting (as
time changed). So just in case, here is my work report for last week:
What I did:
* started organizing 12.1 Launch party in Prague with Pavol
** [1] (czech only, sorry)
** We've got already one volunteer for presentation, so it wouldn't be
just us talking all the time
* got myself registered as Google Code In mentor
** aded one task, not easy to figure out something small and easy
* getting back to my packages, some bugs are pending, some updates needs
to be done after unfreeze
What I plan to do:
* Do Google Code In mentoring if needed
* Work on my packages
* Whatever comes up
[1] https://michal.hrusecky.net/2011/11/opensuse-12-1-launch-party/
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Hi all.
I wonder since when (and for what reason) the IRC channel has become
private.
Greets
Marcus
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We had today a marketing check-in and will continue to discuss the 12.1 launch
activites tomorrow, Thursday 27th October at 14:00 UTC on the #opensuse-
marketing channel in IRC.
Please make yourself familiar with the Launch checklist at:
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Launch_Checklist
Thanks,
Andreas
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Hey Peepz,
just like with the IRC channel we have decided to close this list down
and use opensuse-project for our communication in the future. This will
make for one communication channel less you have to follow and will
expose the stuff we do a bit more.
Please tag messages that are specifically for your fellow team members
with the prefix [boosters] in the subject.
I will close this list on the 15th of November 12:00 UTC.
Have fun over there :)
Henne
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