Objective:Community localization

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This article is continued discussion from the maemo.org brainstorm
Please see the 2010 Agenda for more.


The objective is to provide the tools for community collaboration in localization tasks.

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[edit] Tasks

  • Organize localization teams, preferrably coordinated with other open community efforts.
  • Work on the localization of a basic description of the Maemo platform and the maemo.org community.
  • Provide tools for consolidated language/localization teams willing to have fully localized communities around maemo.org
  • Provide tools and documentation to improve the localization of applications.
  • Establish channels to collaborate in the improvement of Maemo localization in officially supported languages.
  • Provide tools and documentation to create and maintain Maemo localizations in languages supported at a community level.
  • Co-ordinate efforts of translators of international pages in the wiki

See Task:Evaluate Transifex

[edit] Status

Update: We now have a MeeGo L10n roadmap: http://wiki.meego.com/L10N/RoadmapProposal

There was a Localization track during Maemo Barcelona Long Weekend. The result of the workshop was the Community Localization System.

See also the Talk thread: Community translations of Maemo software.

There are a number of pages in the wiki being translated by users.

See also Task:Evaluate Transifex.

[edit] Maemo 5

There are several localization packages released with the SDK or, ultimately, in the Maemo 5 image:

  • hildon-application-manager-l10n-public
  • hildon-common-strings-l10n-public
  • hildon-control-panel-l10n-public
  • hildon-fm-l10n-public
  • hildon-input-method-l10n-public
  • hildon-libs-l10n-public
  • hildon-status-bar-usb-l10n-public
  • ke-recv-l10n-public
  • maemo-af-desktop-l10n-public
  • marketing-release-public
  • modest-l10n-public
  • osso-applet-tasknavigator-l10n-public
  • osso-countries-l10n-public
  • osso-filemanager-l10n-public
  • osso-games-l10n-public
  • osso-help-l10n-public
  • osso-rss-feed-reader-l10n-public
  • osso-system-lock-l10n-public
  • osso-uri-l10n-public

Please list the localization packages you are missing sorted by relevance:

  1. First item, the most relevant.

[edit] Maemo 6

In Harmattan the localizations files will use Qt's .ts format. For community L10n Qt Linguist should already work fine.