On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
<smazeland@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> We want to have a localisation sprint. That is an event where people come together and make translations for a free and open source software product that they use or want to support; the goal is to bring support in local languages forward, thus, in our case, lowering the barrier to contribute to Wikipedia, by providing native language user interfaces.
>
> Very little low level no technical knowledge needed other than knowing how to edit a wiki.

Are you talking about something like FUEL?
Or something like Drupal localisation?
Or some translations from English wikipedia to Marathi/Hindi wikipedia?

If you can give some examples, that will help.
We can try to get the right kind of people for the activity.

There are many barriers/constraints for Indic language computing (not
just wikipedia).
The more we get into it, more challenges come forward.
Lets define some starting point and the objective of the activity and
then go ahead with it.

Regards
-Sudhanwa

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> Op 25 okt. 2011 om 11:53 heeft Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com@gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I do not have any clarity on what Alolita wants to do.
>> Let me check out with her on gmail/gtalk and get her views on this.
>> We can then talk to the techies in Pune.
>>
>> Regards
>> -Sudhanwa
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Ashwin Baindur
>> <ashwin.baindur@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have noticed the mail but waited for Sudhanwa and other technical peop;e
>>> to comment since I am not knowledgeable on this subject.
>>>
>>> Warm regards,
>>>
>>> Ashwin Baindur
>>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Mandar Kulkarni <mvkulkarni23@yahoo.co.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> You must have seen below email from Siebrand Mazeland. Pl. share your
>>>> views on this and suggest a plan to have meet on 26th Nov.
>>>>
>>>> I think, this is a very good opportunity to interact with foundation
>>>> people and work on the project. We need somebody from Pune to take lead in
>>>> this....
>>>>
>>>> I also suggest you all to put your views on the same thread i.e on
>>>> wikimedia-in-pun@lists.wikimedia.org <wikimedia-in-pun@lists.wikimedia.org>;
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> With Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Mandar V. Kulkarni
>>>>
>>>> ----- Forwarded Message -----
>>>> From: Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) <smazeland@wikimedia.org>
>>>> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>>>> Sent: Monday, 24 October 2011, 12:38
>>>> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Translation sprint in Pune on 26 Novermber?
>>>>
>>>> (I tried sending this 8 or so hours ago, but it looks like it didn't
>>>> get through - apologies if it somehow ends up twice)
>>>>
>>>> Dear Indian Wikimedians, and those from near Pune in particular,
>>>>
>>>> In November the complete localisation team of the Wikimedia Foundation
>>>> (I, Niklas, Amir, Gerard, Santhosh and Alolita) will be in India for
>>>> the Wiki Conference India, the Mumbai hackathon and a team meeting.
>>>> Our schedule allows for an event in Pune on Saturday 26 November 2011,
>>>> if the Pune community thinks this is a good idea. We would like it to
>>>> be a localisation sprint, in which we gather as many people as
>>>> possible from the Wikimedia community, but maybe also from other open
>>>> source translation communities, to work on the translation of
>>>> MediaWiki and MediaWiki extensions used by Wikimedia for a few hours,
>>>> and have some nice chats while doing that.
>>>>
>>>> We would of course need a venue with a decent internet connection,
>>>> enough power, and participants would need to bring equipment that
>>>> allows for them to work online in translatewiki.net or offline with a
>>>> gettext editor.
>>>>
>>>> Is this something that is doable?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Siebrand Mazeland
>>>> Product Manager Localisation
>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>>
>>>> M: +31 6 50 69 1239
>>>> Skype: siebrand
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