Maemo-Barcelona Long Weekend/Localization: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 05:11, 9 December 2009

This wiki page is a complement of this discussion thread

Just some brainstorming here. Feel free to add/modify/remove :)

For Developers
- How to enable localization in your application (for different languages)
- How to write good strings (singular, plural, format strings, ...)
- What to avoid when writing strings (positional arguments, ...)
- How to enable Transifex submissions into your SCM repository
For Translators
- How to get started / i18n basics
- Translation best practices / common pitfalls
- How to test your translations on the device
- How to commit translations using Transifex
- Available tools
- How to translate packages name and description
Translators meet Developers
- Goal: Complete translations into Spanish/Catalan/... of community applications by the end of the weekend
Translators meet Maemo
- Objective:Community localization

The result of the workshop was the Community Localization System.

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 ** [[Objective:Community localization]]
-== Goals ==
+== Result ==
+The result of the workshop was the [[Community_localization|Community Localization System]].
 == Participants ==
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 * [http://maemo.org/profile/view/noguer/ Joaquim Perez]
 * [http://maemo.org/profile/view/mdamt/ Mohammad Anwari]
-* [http://maemo.org/profile/view/toniher/ Toni Hermoso Pulido]
 * [http://maemo.org/profile/view/papapep/ Josep Sanchez Mesegue]
 * [http://maemo.org/profile/view/gforcada/ Gil Forcada]
-* [http://maemo.org/profile/view/oriolj/ Oriol Jiménez]
+* Andreas Loupasakis (Transifex)
-* [http://maemo.org/profile/view/biquillo/ Victor Diaz]
+* Cornelius Hald
-* [http://maemo.org/profile/view/mdamt/ Andreas Loupasakis] (Transifex)
+* Eduard Pertinez