Life of one NL project

History of Bulgarian NL project

Topics

Introduction of the team

Who am I?

Others people from the team

The BEGINNIN

Starting localization

Native-Language Project was born

Difficulties and resolves

Translation specification

Place to store translations

Place to gather people

Future activities

Involving firms to produce and sell CDs

Introduction of OOo 2.0

Lectures of using OOo

User support for firms

Lessons to be learned

The team
Who am I?

30 years old, married, one baby :-)

Born in Lom

Living in Sofia (capital of Bulgaria)

Discovered OOo 3 years ago

Involved in OOo for 2 ½ years

Java programmer

Graduated at Technical University in Sofia

Information technologies

Favorite colors: green and red :-)

The team
Others people from the team

Michail Balabanov

This is our major expert in translation and editor. One of the authors of the Translation of GUI in Bulgarian Specification. Helped a lot to have what we have now.

Sergei Dimitrov

New member of the team. Graduated Technical University in Sofia. He has worked as teacher of information technologies. Now he is helping users of the "RINGS" system.

Radostin Radnev

Programmer and the author of the spelling, hyphenation and thesaurus dictionaries in the OpenOffice.org

Plamen Nikolov

Student in University of National and World Economy and helped in translation of OpenOffice.org 1.1.x

Internationalization of OpenOffice.org in Bulgarian

Getting some translations before (some translation of the Glossary)

Gathering people to make a team

Split the GSI file to small peaces for easy work

Making some tools to help translation

The BEGINNING
Starting localization

After translation of the interface finished, using of the OpenOoffice.org start to grow

Need of place to gather people using OpenOffice.org

Proposal of Bulgarian Native-Language Project dispatched

After long discussion the rules of creation of NLP changed

Bulgarian team was happy to have own NLP created on 14.10.2004.

The BEGINNING
Native-Language Project was born

Translation specification

Specification of GUI translation in Bulgarian

Dictionary of used terms

Place to store translated files

First place was http://sourceforge.net/projects/lug-bg/

Second place is http://sciforge.org/projects/ooo-bg

Long strings problems

Very hard to be resolved, maybe in the future will have layouts

Place to gather people

Web page to welcome people

Forum to get questions of these people

Mail lists to help work of the project

Difficulties and resolves

Involving firms to produce and sell CDs

Confidential Information Technologies

Introduction of OpenOffice.org 2.0

Confidential Information Technologies has some plans to make an introduction of OpenOffice.org 2.0 when it is released.

Lectures of using of OpenOffice.org

I hope to be done in the near future

User support for firms

Research of IT market for OpenOffice.org support and publishing this information on the web page of our project.

Future activities

Never do all things alone :)

Be patient and all will come on his time

Ask people to help you and they will

Gain more people to join the team so more work to be done

Translations needs rules to be a good one

People needs a leader to remind them that there is work to be done :)

Meetings with other translation teams which will help to have equal translations of terms in different programs

Good tools to help translation process

Lessons to be learned

Q U E S T I O N S ?

Hristo Hristov - IRC #ooonlc speech

26.06.2005

Hristo Hristov

2005-06-22T10:22:43