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task #5527: Submission of Ethiopia Free software Localisation

Submitter:  teferra <teferra>
Submitted:  Fri 05 May 2006 08:53:39 PM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Fri 05 May 2006 12:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Mon 15 May 2006 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Cancelled Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  kickino Open/Closed:  Closed
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Fri 22 Sep 2006 05:51:00 AM UTC, comment #7: 

Hello and sorry for the huge delay.
I don't get your point.


I don't see why it is necessary to get a project which has got almost no source code available on Savannah.

If any of Amharic nativ-speaker would like to contribute to the upstream it's up to him/her to do so - no need have a "man-in-the-middle" (translator <-> Savannah <-> upstream).


And it's up to every translator himself/herself to choose a license. We cannot force anyony to use the GNU FDL for a documentation (or compatible licenses) - but we don't accept any other and simply we cannot check every license of a document which you will host on Savannah...

In the end it's the choice of everyone self to use the Savannah resources or not.
It's a bad place to get such a huge project running, believe me.



I'm sorry but we cannot host your project because of the reasons mentioned above here.

Have a nice weekend. Bye.

Sebastian Wieseler <kickino>
Tue 13 Jun 2006 07:42:32 PM UTC, comment #6: 

Hi Sebastian

The project isa  translation project as such has no codes to submit. For the job I have done please see comment #4.

teferra

teferra <teferra>
Tue 13 Jun 2006 06:54:51 PM UTC, comment #5: 

Hello.

We would like to review some of your code you will publish on Savannah, before we can go on with the registration process.

Could you please provide us with a tarball of this code?

Sebastian Wieseler <kickino>
Wed 24 May 2006 09:48:29 PM UTC, comment #4: 

This are the answers to the questions raised

1.  I am the one who originally translated poedit and still maintains
the translation for Amharic iso-code am at
http://www.poedit.org/translations.php

2. I am the sysop and since I started the only maintainer of the
Amharic wiktionary at
http://am.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%8B%8B%E1%8A%93_%E1%8C%88%E1%8C%BD
and actively partcipate on maintenance of wikipedia. In fact I who
started the first page and I am happy that to day though few people
come to check on it participate.

3. At Rosetta Amharic translation
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+lang/am I am actually the
only active translator.

4. I translated the kipot Amharic site at http://www.it46.se/kipot/am/?lid=am

5. I participate on translation of google interface.

6. I am one of the registered translators for Mozilla products though
due to lack coordination space we still have not produced any result.

This are few of the projects I am participating.

3rd question.
I believe it is the GNU free document licence that I should use but I
believe i did not see that option on the application form. Any way
that could be changed as per your suggestion.

4th. I do contribute to projects and I intend to continue to
contribute. But that contribution will remain to be one mans effort.
To achieve a complete operative system with all the necessary programs
and tools for a languages (which Amharic do not have yet) needs a lot
of people and coordination. The site at savana is needed to do that.
To bring links to different tools and documentation so that new
translators could have a readily available resources to start their
translation. We even yet to develop computer terms standard glossary.
There are several attempts by individuals scattered on the Internet
which have no coordination.
I believe the 4th question is raised because your experience is with a
well established languages which have a readily available resources,
glossaries, references...etc. Any one who is interested to translate a
program or a tool in one of this established languages does not need
to create a web site. But in Amharic case we have near to none such
tools and resources. The resources that are available also are on
private individuals control who have little desire to collaborate.
That is why we need a resource site that is freely available, when
individuals are incapable of contributing that can be transferred to
others who are capable, that can be there as long as an alternative,
permanent and accessible to all site is created.
Though I would like it to be more than just a site for collection of
links a German gnu translation site at
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/germanwebtrans/ is what I and my
friends have in our mind.

I hope this answers your questions.

Please do contact me if you need further information.

teferra <teferra>
Wed 17 May 2006 10:08:14 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Hello.
(Your original mail is on our mailing list)

At first, you can use this tracker item to reply instead of privat mail. :)


At second, do you have got any source code/translations to show us?


At third, do you /really/ want to use the "GNU General Public License V2 or later" for your documentation? We would prefer to use the GNU Free Document License instead of the GPL for your translations...


At fourth, it is still not clear to me why you don't want to contribute to a special project with your knowledge instead of having all translations in ONE project. :/

Regards,

Sebastian Wieseler <kickino>
Wed 17 May 2006 08:44:48 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Hi,

I am waiting for an answer from you.

If within one week I still do not get a reply, I will remove your project.
You will still be able to register it again once you have the time to deal with the registration issues.

Are you still willing to host your project at Savannah?
If not, please tell us - we don't bite, and it will make us gain time.

Regards.

Sebastian Wieseler <kickino>
Wed 10 May 2006 04:40:05 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi,
I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.


Do you have got any results of your project to show us now?
If not, how do you plan to use our services in your "planning phase"? :-)


Furthermore I think it's better if you contribute with your translations to the server free software project instead of having all translation hosted here. What do you think?
Why it is necessary to have it all together instead of contribution to the mass?

Regards,

Sebastian Wieseler <kickino>
Fri 05 May 2006 08:53:39 PM UTC, original submission:  

A new project has been registered at Savannah
The project account will remain inactive until a site admin approve or discard the registration.


######### REGISTRATION ADMINISTRATION #########

While this item will be useful to track the registration process, approving or discarding the registration must be done using the specific "Group Administration" page, accessible only to site administrators, effectively logged as site administrators (superuser):

  <https://savannah.gnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=8533>


######### REGISTRATION DETAILS #########

Full Name:
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  Ethiopia Free software Localisation

System Group Name:
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  ethiopia

Type:
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  non-GNU software & documentation

License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later

Description:
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  This is a translation coordination page for verious free softwares in to verious Ethiopian Languges. Ethiopia an ancient nation of over 80 million people speaks over 80 different languges. We intend to use this project as a resource center for localisation of one of the free softwares such as GNU\Linux to any of the languges. This can be a meeting point for people interested to work on projects. And much more...



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