Re: Fw: Claroline and the Arab world

Liquid Crystal <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:51:26 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.jedlug
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Thank you so much Hamed for sharing this with us and we always look for 
such nice contributions...



hamed wrote:
> salam all
> I Think may be someone interest in this project
> so I announce you
> 
> Hamed
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lederer Guillaume" 
> <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 12:04 PM
> Subject: Claroline and the Arab world
> 
> 
>> Salam,
>>
>> May I introduce myself in the mailing list of the arabeyes.org project.
>> My name is Guillaume Lederer, I am a developper of the Claroline
>> opensource project. I was present at the LSM 2005 and assisted to the
>> presentation of Youcef R. Rahal who recommanded me to send this mail
>> here, where I could find people involved in the Arab opensource world.
>>
>> Claroline is an opensource Learning Management System (LMS) based on the
>> PHP/MySQL technologies.  It allows teachers or institutions to easily
>> set websites for their online courses. So far, the project has known a
>> good succes and the software is now used in more than 400 universities
>> and institutions all over the world (see http://www.claroline.net). In a
>> process of internationalisation, we have also had lots of contributions
>> and the Claroline interface has been translated so far in more than 28
>> languages.  However, we are still facing  some difficulties to maintain
>> the Arab version, which is about 40% ready for now (as the software
>> still evolved a lot since the last translations we received). I am in
>> contact with an Egyptian student who already did 20% of those 40% but I
>> thought he would appreciate some help.
>>
>> I am asking then if any of the people from this list is interested in
>> contributing to the Arab translation of Claroline, as the software could
>> be a great benefit to the arab speaking community.  It is about 1500
>> sentences/words to translate where almost the half is done (could be
>> done in only a day!). For technical reasons related to PHP server
>> configuration, we can not use ".po" file  but we use a simple PHP
>> (text) file where everyline is like:
>>
>> $langWordtoTranslate = "Word to translate";
>>
>> A file containing the job expected to do is attached to this mail.
>>
>> Anyone interested can contact me personnally or is welcome on our IRC
>> chan : irc.freenode.org, #claroline
>>
>> Kind regards to all of you,
>>
>> Guillaume Lederer
>> Claroline community
>>
>>
>>
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