Localisation Camp/2 Pune 20,21 March 2010

2010-03-13T10:01:17Z

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'''Date: 20, 21 March 2010'''

'''Venue: Red Hat Office, Tower 10, Cyber City, Magarpatta City, Hadapsar'''

A Localisation camp is a place for introducing new people to localisation tools, processes and communities. It is also a place for inviting feedback from wide spectrum of people to improve existing translations. And a place to meet up and interact with other members of the community.

This camp is organised by Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, [http://groups.google.co.in/group/uncodepune Uncode] (Lokayat Free Software Initiative) and [http://groups.google.co.in/group/cofsug CoEP's Free Software Users Group]. Venue provided by [http://www.redhat.com/ Red Hat].

For more details contact Praveen Arimbrathodiyil +91 9561745712

== Notes ==

* We are '''limiting attendance to 25 persons''' on a first come first serve basis.
* Lunch and tea will be provided at the venue.
* A press release is being drafted [[Localisation_Camp/2_Pune_20,21_March_2010/Press_Release0|here]], please contribute your ideas.

== Agenda ==

=== Prerequisites ===

* Read [http://www.fosscommunity.in/wiki/Localization_and_Internationalization Localization and Internationalization]

=== Saturday 20th ===

* 9am to 10 am - Registration/Introductions
* 10 am to 11 am - Interactive Session on Free Software
* 11 am to 12 pm - Enabling Applications for Localisation (Internationalisation or i18n) and key software components enabling a localised desktop experience (Unicode standard, Fonts, rendering engine or displaying Indic/complex text, locale, gettext ... ) - Naveen Kumar, Red Hat
* 12 pm to 1 pm - Introducing Input methods (hands on)
* lunch break
* 2 pm to 3 pm - Localisation process and tools (where to get po files, editing PO files, tools available like glossary, fuel, translation memory ..., review and submission process for various languages) - Ankit Patel, Red Hat
* 3 pm to 5 pm - Getting hands dirty with translations

=== Sunday 21st ===

* 9 am to 10 am - Other aspects of local language computing - discussion - (text to speech, speech recognition, optical character recognision/handwriting recognision, rendering issues, Indic calendars with holidays, ascii to unicode conversion ...) - Naveen Kumar, Red Hat
* 10 am to 12 pm - Reviewing existing translations/discussing issues with regards to translations
* 12 pm to 1 pm - Getting hands dirty with translations
* lunch break
* 2 pm to 3 pm - Closing discussion/feedback/todo/roadmap/future sessions/online participation

=== Coordinators ===

# Praveen A - Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (laptop=yes)
# Ani Peter - Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (laptop=yes)
# Naveen Kumar - Redhat Software Services India Pvt. Ltd. (laptop=yes)

== Participants ==

Please register for the event here (just add your name, organisation/institution and tell us if you are bringing your own laptop). Optionally add your contact number (if you feel OK to share on a public wiki page) or send your contact number to pravi dot a plus l10n dot camp at gmail dot com (dot is '.', plus is '+', at is '@').

# Labeeb M - Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
# Nabeel P.M - MIT, Hadapsar
# Abhijit A M - Uncode
# Rishikesh Y - Uncode
# Rushal - Tech Mahindra
# Dnyaneshwar Dewadkar- COEP
# Gautam Akiwate - CoEP
# Ashwin Tumma - CoEP
# Swapnil Kulkarni - CoEP
# Mihir Kulkarni - CoEP
# Sourabh Dige - CoEP
# Amler Vipul - Uncode
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