Launchpad Translations Under the Hood
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
Ubuntu Developers Week is here and I am happy to announce the Launchpad Under the Hood session that will take place in #ubuntu-classroom from irc.freenode.net on Wednesday, 27 Jan 2010, starting 17.OO UTC.
This is a session dedicated mainly to developers wanting to contribute to Launchpad Translations (codename Rosetta) but who are not yet familiar with [...]
We are doing fine… overall… I think
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
This is a short post about the status of Romanian free software translations.
According to Wikipedia, Romanian is ranked 40 by an estimation for number of speakers. To estimate the status of Romanian translations, I’m using the translations from Ubuntu 9.10 main repository and Gnome 2.28 .
In Ubuntu Romanian is 30, ranked by the number of [...]
Free software terminology translations
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Planet Ubuntu
I am pleased to announce a set of words/terms that could be used as a common terminology for translation teams.
It is based on the terminology files used by Romanian translations teams, which was started (around 2005) from the GNOME glossary file. In the last year the Romanian translations teams have successfully used a common terminology [...]
GTK stock icon names in translations
Posted by Adi | Filed under English
This is just an informative post in case someone is not aware of this issue.
Lucian Grijincu brings to our attention the issues of GTK stock icon names included in the translations.
In general the GTK stock icon strings should not be made available for translations.
They are strings like “gtk-ok”, “gtk-cancel” , “gtk-back” etc
If you are a [...]
Ubuntu 9.10 Release Parties in Romania
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
This a post about Ubuntu Karmic Release Parties in Romania.
The wonderful people from ROSEDU have organized just before the release the third edition of their, by now well known, Ubuntu Install Fest. More info and pictures on the event page. Below is just a sneak peak.
Thanks to ArLug, just in time for release, we [...]
Internet without borders… an utopic goal?
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
I’m starting to feel we are heading toward an Internet where an e-passport will be required for accessing websites outside our country.
Not being a big user of entertainment websites, it was only recently that I found out that countries borders are starting to take shape over Internet. First was the southpark.de website only available in [...]
Now that Karmic is released…
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
This is just a short update for my latest activities:
Ubuntu 9.10 Romanian Remix, the Ubuntu Live CD that comes with full support for Romanian language, was release on time. This is a showcase of Romanian localization of free software and we are looking forward for strengthening the team and to attract more contributors, as the team [...]
