Maemo-Barcelona Long Weekend/Localization

Latest revision as of 13:18, 20 January 2011

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

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+This wiki page is a complement of [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=395595 this discussion thread]
 Just some brainstorming here. Feel free to add/modify/remove :)
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 ** 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]]
+== Result ==
+The result of the workshop was the [[Community_localization|Community Localization System]]. See also [[:Image:L10n.pdf|a PDF of notes from the workshop]].
+== Participants ==
+* [http://maemo.org/profile/view/noguer/ Joaquim Perez]
+* [http://maemo.org/profile/view/mdamt/ Mohammad Anwari]
+* [http://maemo.org/profile/view/papapep/ Josep Sanchez Mesegue]
+* [http://maemo.org/profile/view/gforcada/ Gil Forcada]
+* Andreas Loupasakis (Transifex)
+* Cornelius Hald
+* Eduard Pertinez
+[[Category:Maemo-Barcelona Long Weekend]]