Re: New Team For Swahili Language

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

fre 2003-05-23 klockan 12.43 skrev Mturi Elias:
> I, Mturi Elias I am MSc. Computer Science student at
> Osmania University.
> I am a Tanzanian national, I would like to join in
> localizing GNOME into my swahili Language which is my
> national language.
>
> Personal details:
> Mturi Elias

Hi and thanks for your interest! Support for Swahili (sw) in GNOME is
most welcome. I've added your name and e-mail address to the teams page
now.

A requirement for all GNOME translators, and especially team
coordinators, is to be subscribed to this mailing list
(gnome-i18n@gnome.org), so that we can reach everyone and make sure they
get information. It seems that you aren't subscribed, at least not with
the address in your mail. If you aren't subscribed, please subscribe as
soon as possible. You can do that at the
http://lists.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n/ page.

I'll also send a mail in private to you with a request for bugzilla
details. Please reply to that mail as soon as possible.

Other than that, please ask around on this mailing list or at the IRC
channel #i18n on irc.gnome.org if you need help getting started.
Currently, we are starting to focus our translation efforts on the
coming GNOME 2.4 release. The list of included software is not finalized
yet, but you can find a preliminary list on
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/status/gnome-2.4/ under the
"desktop" and "developer-libs" sections. You also find links to the pot
files to translate on those pages.

Once you have translated some of these, you can send them to me and I'll
try to put them into cvs for you. Just make sure that the files pass the
"msgfmt -cv sw.po" test, that they are encoded in UTF-8, and that you
compress them using gzip before attaching them to the mail.

Once you've contributed a few translations this way, we can arrange a
cvs account for you, so that you can put translations directly into cvs
later on.

Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions.


Thanks, and welcome,

Christian