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FOSDEM 2024: Call for Participation - Translations Devroom 2024
by Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana 15 Nov '23

15 Nov '23

Hi all, Web version available here: https://gitlab.com/translations-devroom/cfp # FOSDEM 2024 In Person -- Translations DevRoom Call for Participation! FOSDEM 2024 [1] will take place on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th February 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. ## Key dates / New updates * Conference dates: 3-4 February, 2024 In person. * Translations DevRoom [2] date: Sunday 4th February (half a day in the morning). * Submission deadline: Sunday 10th December. * Announcement of selected talks: Friday 15th December. * You must be available in person to present your talk. * Talk submissions should be 30 mins and this should include Q&A time. ## TALK TOPICS For the second year in a row, FOSDEM will hold a devroom on all things related to translating FLOSS projects. * Recruiting new people to translate your project. * How it works in your project to translate softwares, websites, packages, manuals, tools, and so on. * Which tools are used by translators. * Exchange experiences between FLOSS projects. * Rewarding volunteer contributors and keeping volunteers motivated. * Showing which languages your project has been translated to. Again, these are just suggestions. We welcome proposals on any aspect of translations! ## HOW TO SUBMIT A TALK * Visit the FOSDEM 2024 pretalx [3] website. This has replaced Pentabarf! * Follow the instructions to create an account. * Once logged in, select “submit a CFP”. * Your submission must include the following information: - Proposal title - Track - Select **Translations** from the drop down list - Abstract - Description - Add any other details as needed to the Submission notes. - Additional speaker - _Click Continue or you can save and come back to it_ - About your proposal: Which open source license do you use? - FOSDEM is an open-source software conference, please specify which OSI approved license [4] your proposal uses. - Extra review material, only shown to reviewers (not published when scheduled) - Extra Contact details (optional) - _Click Continue or you can save and come back to it_ - Finally tell us your name - Biography - Availability If you need to get in touch with the organiser of the Translations DevRoom, email us at <translations-devroom-manager(a)fosdem.org> FOSDEM code of conduct [5]. Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana - Translations DevRoom Organiser [1] https://fosdem.org/2024 [2] https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/translations [3] https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2024/cfp [4] https://opensource.org/licenses [5] https://fosdem.org/2024/practical/conduct -- Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana (phls) Belo Horizonte - Brasil Debian Developer Site: http://phls.com.br GPG ID: 0443C450

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A Heartfelt Thank You for the Resilience and Commitment of openSUSE Contributors
by Douglas DeMaio 18 Oct '23

18 Oct '23

Dear openSUSE Contributors, A few of us within the community want to extend our heartfelt thank you and appreciation for your dedicated community in ensuring the security and integrity of openSUSE's distributions, tools and communications channels. We want to acknowledge that swift and decisive measures to prevent malicious content from infiltrating the openSUSE ecosystem is of the upmost importance. As we unfortunately witnessed with Ubuntu recent release, some people will act with malicious intent and use hate speech. Our hearts go out to the Ubuntu community for the challenges they've faced. Stay strong, friends. Your commitment to maintaining a high standard is highly appreciated. openSUSE members have been actively guarding and protecting our community's image from threats, which is commendable. We realize that what happend to Ubuntu can happen to other distributions, and we should remain vigilant and dedication to safeguarding the user community. We encourage discussion about this topic and have a few key points we would like to emphisize below. Weblate open source: The open-source community relies on collaborative tools like Weblate to ensure translations and contributions are secure. We encourage contributions to this tool as it could help identify harmful content. Awareness: It's essential to spread awareness about the need for a content review and security checks in open-source projects. By doing so, we can make a proactive stance against any potential threats. Resilience: Building resilience in our open-source ecosystems is crucial. This resilience not only shields us from threats but also guarantees a safe and harassment-free environment. In a world where cybersecurity is of paramount importance, your actions not only prevent harm but also set an example for others in the open-source community. Thank you for keeping openSUSE a safe and reliable choice for all of us who depend on it. Sincerely, openSUSE Community Meeting - weeklymeeting20231017

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Leap 15.5 retrospective feedback is now seeking action items
by Lubos Kocman 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Hello openSUSE! I would like to share categorized openSUSE Leap 15.5 retrospective results with all contributors, team leads, and individuals who directly or indirectly contribute to openSUSE Leap! https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.5/Retrospective Feel free to review relevant sections for you or your team and see if you could help to address some of the issues. I already started making action items for the obvious ones, however, It would really help me if you'd share any suggestion or ideas. Feel free to link action items to the wiki, such as links to github issues, bugs, progress-o-o, trello, jira, code-o-o feature links. I promise that I'll try to help driving "reasonable ones" to the completion. I already agreed with the review round that Leap 15.6 retrospective will have explicit "written" suggestion in the "what didn't go too well" section to open a bug and reference it in the next. I'm aware that might take away the anonymity aspect of the survey, however, as it is now it's impossible to react to some of the feedback without an effective feedback loop such as discussion in bugzilla. Let's make Leap 15.6 even a better release than 15.5 Please be aware that I'll be on vacation for next two weeks starting by Thursday. Best regards Lubos Kocman openSUSE Leap Release Manager

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Re: ChatGPT for translations
by Vojtěch Zeisek 22 May '23

22 May '23

Dne středa 26. dubna 2023 12:37:13 CEST jste napsal(a): > On 2023-04-26 10:17, Vojtěch Zeisek wrote: > > Dne pondělí 17. dubna 2023 17:04:37 CEST, Douglas DeMaio napsal(a): > > > Tomorrow during the community meeting, we'll have some people > > > form kapa.ai that want to discuss “ChatGPT for you documentation, > > > code and support answers". They said they would join tomorrow and > > > it would be good to have more people there at 14:30 UTC on > > > https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting to see what people thing about it. v/r > > > > Are there any outcomes? ;-) > > The items we went through were a bit difficult for documentation, > but for translations, it looked like ChatGPT could be used, but > it would need a review (and necessary adjustments) from a native > speaker, translator. Of course its up to you all to decide as a > group though what you would want to do. > Some words don't always translate ideally. So, I'm playing bit with <https://github.com/V-Z/translate-po-openai-api> and it seems it's working well. I can download PO file, let ChatGPT translate it, and upload to Weblate as proposal. So main manual part is checking and correcting the translation (either in Lokalize or so or in Weblate). The only problem is that the API access is paid. I got some credit when starting ChatGPT Plus (it expires soon anyway, so I don't care). I'm not sure how exactly it's counting the tokens, but almost 2700 strings costed little below 3$. Not bad. Anyway, if it should be used more widely, some budget wouldn't hurt. -- Vojtěch Zeisek https://trapa.cz/ Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux https://www.opensuse.org/

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release-notes-opensuse/leap_15-5 repo shows merge issue alert in weblate
by Jan Papež (honyczek) 12 May '23

12 May '23

Hi, there is an issue in Leap 15.5 Release notes repository for weblate [0]. There is a merge conflict in po/ca.po. This makes the repository locked and no translations can be done. Could somebody check the issue, pls? Thanks, Jan [0] https://l10n.opensuse.org/projects/release-notes-opensuse/leap_15-5/#alerts -- Jan Papež (honyczek)

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Translations for openSUSE Leap 15.5 Release Announcement & Image for Release
by ddemaio openSUSE 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

Hi everyone, I have placed the release announcement for openSUSE Leap 15.5 on the wiki at https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.5 It would be highly appreciated if you could help to translate the release announcement to your native language to help for this news to be released in different languages. Currently it is only in English. Feel free to link your translated version to the top and include your ISO 639-1 Code language code. We recently discussed the use of translations tool. Please make sure you give the translations a thorough read through in the translated language should you use decide to use some of these tools we discussed[1] If you have any questions, please let me know. Also, if you want to design some sort of image to go along with the release of Leap 15.5, please write me or chat on the marketing telegram at https://t.me/openSUSE_Marketing. Have a wonderful weekend. v/r Doug [1] https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/translation@lists.opensuse.org/thr…

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Re: ChatGPT for translations
by Douglas DeMaio 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

The items we went through were a bit difficult for documentation, but for translations, it looked like ChatGPT could be used, but it would need a review (and necessary adjustments) from a native speaker. It would certainly be great to have more languages translated and using the AI as a tool to help. Some words don't always translate ideally, which is why it would be great to have translators leverage it for translations. v/r Doug ________________________________ From: Vojtěch Zeisek Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 10:17 AM To: translation(a)lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: ChatGPT for translations Dne pondělí 17. dubna 2023 17:04:37 CEST, Douglas DeMaio napsal(a): > Tomorrow during the community meeting, we'll have some people form kapa.ai > that want to discuss “ChatGPT for you documentation, code and support > answers". They said they would join tomorrow and it would be good to have > more people there at 14:30 UTC on https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting to see > what people thing about it. v/r Are there any outcomes? ;-) > Doug > ________________________________ > From: Lubos Kocman <Lubos.Kocman(a)suse.com> > Sent: Monday, April 17, 2023 4:43 PM > To: translation(a)lists.opensuse.org <translation(a)lists.opensuse.org>; > vojtech.zeisek(a)opensuse.org <vojtech.zeisek(a)opensuse.org> > Subject: Re: ChatGPT for translations > > Hello Vojtech > my 2 cents :-) > My wife is playing Hogwarts Legacy with Czech subtitles that were > translated by AI. Aside from weird distribution platform (a chat > command during particular czech gamer live-stream on youtube), the > translation is actually quite solid and followable. > The initial CZ translation was translated within a week or so and > we're talking huge amount of data. So I believe this is absolutely > a direction to look into. > When it comes to AI and coding, not necessarily your case with docs, > the SUSE has a very simple strategy to not use AI programmer solutions > for now, as there is a problem with respecting copyright of the data > that AI was trained on. https://opensource.suse.com/legal/policy > I still highly recommend you to reach out to legal(a)suse.de prior using > any of generated data. > Cheers > Lubos > > Mon, 2023-04-17 at 13:50 +0200, Vojtěch Zeisek wrote: > > Hi, > > everyone is now playing with ChatGPT, right? ;-) Among other > > tasks, I try to use it for translations. It gives good quality > > and consistent code, so it could save a lot of work, but still > > I wouldn't let it publish without review. Now I can download > > PO file and copy-paste its parts into chat window and then > > upload finished PO back to Weblate. Well, this copy-paste is > > time demanding and annoying. So 2 questions: > > 1) Is anyone thinking about some employment of ChatGPT into > > translations? Does anyone already have some experience with that? > > 2) Does anyone have any working procedure with some API access, > > so without need of copy-paste from-to web browser? > > Yours, > > V. -- Vojtěch Zeisek https://trapa.cz/ Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux https://www.opensuse.org/

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ChatGPT for translations
by Vojtěch Zeisek 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

Hi, everyone is now playing with ChatGPT, right? ;-) Among other tasks, I try to use it for translations. It gives good quality and consistent code, so it could save a lot of work, but still I wouldn't let it publish without review. Now I can download PO file and copy-paste its parts into chat window and then upload finished PO back to Weblate. Well, this copy-paste is time demanding and annoying. So 2 questions: 1) Is anyone thinking about some employment of ChatGPT into translations? Does anyone already have some experience with that? 2) Does anyone have any working procedure with some API access, so without need of copy-paste from-to web browser? Yours, V. -- Vojtěch Zeisek https://trapa.cz/ Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux https://www.opensuse.org/

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setting up Leap 15.5 in weblate
by Lubos Kocman 14 Apr '23

14 Apr '23

Hello localization team, I've noticed by checking history in https://github.com/openSUSE/packages-i18n that we don't have openSUSE Leap 15.5 / SLES 15 SP5 in weblate. Could you please set it up? Thank you very much in advance Lubos Kocman openSUSE Leap Release Manager

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halo
by Si Paling Baja Perak 21 Mar '23

21 Mar '23

halo from i n d o n e s i a

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