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My name is Laura Arjona and

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my name is Francesca Ciceri

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And this is the localization workshop

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Localization or translation. We say 
localization because its the process


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that envolve a bit more than 
translation. Maybe you also need

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to change date formats or the 
text orientation, or to have a

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software in your own language. Ok?

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For this to be done the software 
needs to be prepared and this process

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of preparing the software is internalization.
Is a software engineering process

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to make a program ready for translation. 
So people not beeing programers can

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translate the software.

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And debian is very well internationalized
so we have lots of things we can translate

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without even touching a line of code.

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The debian installer, the debconf 
templates that Miriam talked a bit ago,


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the descriptions of the packages, when 
you search for package website or the

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software center or in synaptics or
anything, the manuals documentation

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of debian I mean, and of course the
information that the Debian Project

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produces, the website, the press releases,
the debian project news, wiki, everything

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So for many people the most important 
thing is the debian installer.

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That you can install debian, many people 
dont know english or they dont want to use

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english, so its nice that debian installer
is in their own language and thanks for

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Christian Perrier and all the people in 
the different language teams,

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we have the installer in many languages
and we are still improving that, ok ?

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No? Yeah! this is your turn ...

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Thank you, ok! Then there are debconf
template, Miriam told about debconf

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messages in the previous talk, and they 
are messages sent by the system when you

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are installing a new package and they just
need ask on a prompt to the user

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about configuring the package and so.

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And there are translatable files, po files
and you can use different tools to

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translate them, as the translation is done
is submitted directly to the bug tracking

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system - the BTS to the relevant package.
And there are stats ...

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We will do it ...

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My laptop is dying ...
You have to support it ...

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Wait a minute we have a backup laptop...

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I'm back ...

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And here are the stats for the translation
of debconf messages from the different

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teams, you can see that Spanish is at 95 %
so you're not doing perfectly, but

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you're doing well, better than Italian at
least, and Catalan is 45% , you need to

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work more , really really. Ok

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You can also translate or help translating
the descriptions of the packages. And this

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is an interface very, very easy, you just
have the description in english and

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here's a text box where you put the same
description in your language, and press a

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button, submit and that's all. Later
another person can review it, and improve

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it, but its very easy, you don't have to 
do anything, just go to one webpage, read

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and translate to your language.

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There's other documents that we use to 
translate...

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The release notes and the installation 
guide which we translate them obviously

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with each new release, and there are other 
manuals that are not as much updated, so

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the as the translation is done there's not
much to do.

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And this kind of documentation is managed
by the debian documentation project that

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has a specific workflow and a specific
repository, all this kind of translations:

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the debconf messages, the website, the 
documentation have their own workflow.

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They are managed sometimes by different
teams besides the local language team.

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And finally the website, I said before
that the installer was very important but

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the debian website is very important too,
because people need to go there to

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download debian and if they cannot 
understand the website probably they

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will manage to download the iso file and
install it. Also the website is something

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that's all the time producing new content
and updating content, so there is always

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work to be done in the website translation
team. And is also quite easy, just like

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someone said before, just read and send
emails, this is the same.

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The most important thing is to understand
the philosophy, its a team work, your

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work needs to be reviewed by other people
and you need to review the translations

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that other people do, if you do like that
everything goes very well.

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And we have also a robot (a bot) that 
understand emails the similar way

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sent to the bug tracking system for the 
translations we just sent that read the

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subject with the file that you want to
translate and what you going to do with

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that. The robot understands that and
generate the pages with the statistics

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and the situation of each file so 
everybody knows in each situation is the

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translation. As you understand as it works
its very easy to continue work that was

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done by other people. From the beginning
can be very strange but it works very well.