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Open Translation Tools, day 1 concludedDay 1 finished off the way it had begun, with plenty of interaction amongst the participants. We started by dividing into two groups, those who had use-cases describing content in need of translation, and those who had translation tools to discuss and enumerate. I was in the group attempting to characterize clearly differentiated use-cases. The challenge with such work is to be as granular as ...
Open Translation Tools 2007, day 1I am in Zagreb, Croatia, today with a fabulous collection of folks passionate about open content and FOSS translation tools. Open Translation Tools is organised by Aspiration and the Multimedia Institute [MI2]. It brings together software developers working to develop translation tools with projects that have particular use-cases for translation. Together we are going to learn from ...
FOSS policy: personal and publicShould I have a personal FOSS policy - a set of principles by which my software decisions are made? I suppose in some sense I already do. I use Mozilla Firefox all day long, every day. I use OpenOffice wherever possible. I use GIMP for my photo editing. I use Pidgin for IRC, and a host of other FOSS packages. But do these choices I have made amount to anything more than a set of preferences, or, ...
Getting started with a new FOSS community: user email listsHow do you get started with a new FOSS community? Perhaps someone recommended a software package to you. Or it came up in a news story. Or someone spoke about it at an event you attended. Or someone has told you (your boss?) that you need to get familiar with it. Or maybe you are just curious and want to learn something new (hey, it's possible!). What do you do?
No doubt your first step is ...
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