[Marketing] Language support for the Live Project

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So I've managed to get language packs installed. Oddly while the menu
titles in xfce-panel don't seem to change the menu in them is definately
in the correct language based on login (I've tested QGIS with German and
Spanish so far).

Adding 18 language packs took about 129 MB but I'm not sure if the gnome
language packs are needed too or the spelling dictionaries. Of course
picking which languages to support is now the real challenge. So far I
went directly with a list off wikipedia of the most # of speakers in the
world. I went all the way to 20 but a few of them don't have language
packs in Ubuntu.

This list long term should lead us towards finding translators for our
help files and all the apps (assuming they aren't already translated).

There seem to be 2 other alternate ways to pick though.
1. based on OSGeo chapter languages
2. based on the languages the OSGeo site supposedly supports
translations for.

Here are the comparative lists, if we had to cut it to 10 languages
which would you pick?

# of Speakers:
  sp \ #Spanish
  en \ #English
  hi \ #Hindi/Urdu
  ar \ #Arabic
  bn \ #Bengali
  pt \ #Portuguese
  ru \ #Russian
  ja \ #Japanese
  de \ #German
  jv \ #Javanese - no language pack
  pa \ #Punjabi pa
# no language code for Wu may not be a written language
  fr \ #French
  te \ #Telugu
  vi \ #Vietnamese
  mr \ #Marathi
  ko \ #Korean
  ta \ #Tamil
  it \ #Italian
  tr \ #Turkish

OSGeo Chapters:
Finnish
Greek
Hebrew
Polish
Romanian
Thai
English
Spanish
Portuguese
Italian
Japanese
Chinese
French
Hindi

OSGeo Site:
    * English
    * Български (Russian?)
    * 简体中文 (Chinese?)
    * Deutsch German
    * Français French
    * Indonesian
    * Italiano Itialian
    * 日本語 (One of these is Japanese?)
    * 한국어 Korean
    * Nederlands Dutch
    * Polski Polish
    * Portuguese (Brazilian)
    * Русский Greek?
    * Español Spanish
    * Türkçe Turkish

Thanks,Danke,Gracias, etc,
Alex

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Alex Mandel wrote:

OSGeo Site:
    * Български (Russian?)
    * Русский Greek?

Apologies, thats Български Bulgarian and Русский Russian or so the ISO
codes in the links tell me.

And so far Spanish,German, Turkish, and Russian have all worked in QGIS & R.

Thanks,
Alex

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Regarding picking languages for the LiveDVD,

My suggestion is that we include the languages for which there are translations in the packages, and the live DVD.

I have a list of OSGeo translators from FOSS4G who I can ask for help from, once we have decided what should be translated.

As FOSS4G is in Spain this year, I think we should start with Spanish.

I think this release 3.0 we should consider translations experimental (mainly because our documentation is pretty crappy in English and needs be cleaned up before we put in huge efforts into translation). So it would probably be wise to only focus on one language initially, unless one of our translators is prepared to burn lots of time.

Alex Mandel wrote:

So I've managed to get language packs installed. Oddly while the menu
titles in xfce-panel don't seem to change the menu in them is definately
in the correct language based on login (I've tested QGIS with German and
Spanish so far).

Adding 18 language packs took about 129 MB but I'm not sure if the gnome
language packs are needed too or the spelling dictionaries. Of course
picking which languages to support is now the real challenge. So far I
went directly with a list off wikipedia of the most # of speakers in the
world. I went all the way to 20 but a few of them don't have language
packs in Ubuntu.

This list long term should lead us towards finding translators for our
help files and all the apps (assuming they aren't already translated).

There seem to be 2 other alternate ways to pick though.
1. based on OSGeo chapter languages
2. based on the languages the OSGeo site supposedly supports
translations for.

Here are the comparative lists, if we had to cut it to 10 languages
which would you pick?

# of Speakers:
  sp \ #Spanish
  en \ #English
  hi \ #Hindi/Urdu
  ar \ #Arabic
  bn \ #Bengali
  pt \ #Portuguese
  ru \ #Russian
  ja \ #Japanese
  de \ #German
  jv \ #Javanese - no language pack
  pa \ #Punjabi pa
# no language code for Wu may not be a written language
  fr \ #French
  te \ #Telugu
  vi \ #Vietnamese
  mr \ #Marathi
  ko \ #Korean
  ta \ #Tamil
  it \ #Italian
  tr \ #Turkish

OSGeo Chapters:
Finnish
Greek
Hebrew
Polish
Romanian
Thai
English
Spanish
Portuguese
Italian
Japanese
Chinese
French
Hindi

OSGeo Site:
    * English
    * Български (Russian?)
    * 简体中文 (Chinese?)
    * Deutsch German
    * Français French
    * Indonesian
    * Italiano Itialian
    * 日本語 (One of these is Japanese?)
    * 한국어 Korean
    * Nederlands Dutch
    * Polski Polish
    * Portuguese (Brazilian)
    * Русский Greek?
    * Español Spanish
    * Türkçe Turkish

Thanks,Danke,Gracias, etc,
Alex
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