After more than 8 years of being orphaned, Malayalam team is active again. The new team leader, Aiswarya Kaitheri Kandoth, made a new translation of the Free Software Definition, so now we have 41 translations of that page!
Currently, Malayalam the only active translation team of official languages of India. It is a Dravidian language spoken by about 40 million people worldwide, with the most speakers living in the Indian state of Kerala. Like many Indian languages, it uses a syllabic script derived from Brahmi.
Links to up-to-date translations are shown on the automatically generated report page.
After a 2-year absence, the Romanian translation team is active again under the new leadership of Tiberiu C. Turbureanu, founder of Ceata - the Romanian Free Software Activist organization.
Romanian is a Romance language spoken by 24 million people, primarily in Romania and Republic of Moldova, Eastern Europe. It is similar to other more spoken Romance languages like Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian.
Romania is reported to be the country with the highest number of computer programmers in Europe. This is why many well-known software companies opened development centers in Romania in the last decade.
We do hope that by translating the gnu.org pages, Romanian programmers will come to better understand the Free Software philosophy. We hope more of them will stop restricting and controlling their users and join the Free Software movement.
Also, we hope that Romanian users will more easily become aware of their freedoms and act accordingly, rejecting proprietary software and requesting only Free Software.
References:
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/www-ro/
http://turbureanu.org/index.en.html
http://proiecte.ceata.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania
We are pleased to announce the establishment of a new Slovak gnu.org translation team, under the coordinatorship of Dominik Smatana.
Slovak is a Slavic language from the Indo-European family, spoken by more than 6 million people (primarily in Slovakia, Central Europe).
Here are the links to newly added Slovak translations:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.sk.html
http://www.gnu.org/distros/distros.sk.html
http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.sk.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/software.sk.html
After 4 years of inactivity, the Malayalam gnu.org translation team has been revived, with Shyam Karanattu taking the leadership.
The Malayalam language is from the Dravidian family, and is famous with its beautiful script. It is spoken by about 38 million people, mostly in the Indian state of Kerala.
There are already 10 articles online, which makes Malayalam the second best supported Indian language (after Tamil), and the third one to have gnu.org translations (along with Bengali and Tamil).
Links to the available translations:
http://gnu.org/gnu/gnu-history.ml.html
http://gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.ml.html
http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-intro.ml.html
http://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.ml.html
http://gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.ml.html
http://gnu.org/philosophy/schools.ml.html
http://gnu.org/philosophy/selling.ml.html
http://gnu.org/philosophy/social-inertia.ml.html
http://gnu.org/philosophy/why-copyleft.ml.html
http://gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.ml.html