Re: [L-A Lokalisointi] Interesting Tekes Programmes

On Friday 19 December 2003 03:43, Marko Gronroos wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Aschwin van der Woude wrote:
> > Sure a detailed or rough plan is very good to have for our localisation
> > project, which should include all localisation projects currently
> > existing for the Finnish language. Such plan would in my opinion describe
> > how we work together with these projects and how we could ensure a
> > consistent and high quality across these projects. And perhaps also an
> > approach to the funding question.
> >
> > I don't see OpenOffice localisation as a separate issue in such plan. I
> > understand you are one of the translators for this projects, and I agree
> > a bias to it should not appear in such a plan.
>
> The only translator, actually, which is part of the reason.
>
> OO is the only software that has been translated (at some point)
> commercially, and it's probably also best suitable for that. The strings
> can't be translated simultaneously by different translators as easily as in
> most other projects and it's also technically more challenging (remember
> the hassle of getting the Windows build...). Perhaps that is why there
> hasn't been enough active volunteers.

OO may be best to translate that way. But it is imbo impossible to get done 
under GPL and that way. Only way is that we get money from "state" and "buy" 
work from a company or some university... 

> Other projects are better suited for voluntary translation work, and I
> think we should keep it that way and try to support the work financially.
> Possibly directly with grants or rewards, but at least indirectly by
> arranging meetings, perhaps paying travelling expenses, and other
> resources.
>
> These two categories are so different from a financial point of view, that
> I've though it would be better to keep them separate. But then, I have no
> clue about how to find financing for either of the categories.
>
> > How do you suggest to go forward which writing such a plan? Should there
> > first be a meeting to come up with ideas and perhaps a rough outline?
> >
> > What do you see as the best approach?
>
> I guess I'll try to make a draft at some time. Or would some other approach
> be better?
>
> -- Marko Grönroos, [email protected] (http://www.iki.fi/magi/)
>
>
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