[Translators] [Event Report] Localization Hackathon @wfs-india, 20th May, 2013

[chandan kumar]

Hello All,

WFS-india is a volunteered organization created by some intelligent and
innovative minds like: Satabdi Das (A OPW- Gnome intern and FOSS
etheuasist) few months ago. The main motto of this organization is to
create awareness among women towards free and open source software in
india. For this , they have started conducting meetings on #wfs-india
channel on freenode server in order to plan an event for increasing
participation of women in free and open source software movement. In a
short span of time, finally they decided to organize an event named
"Localization Hackathon" on the eve of cultural freedom day on 20th may,
2013 from 08:00 p:m to 09:30 p:m at wfs-india channel on freenode server.

The whole event is supported by Mozilla, Fedora and Videolan (The creater
of VLC Media Player). We have got seven participants across the globe
<holingpoon, erry, sunu, Anupam, shweta, anexasajoop, sri_c>. The more
details about the participants are given below in the chat list. The guest
persons who are helping backend are Amani_glugcal, kaustavdm,
Priyankanag. The whole session of Localization Hackathon is started by me
and finally backened by Biraj karmakar and Runab Battacharya.

The output of the hackathon are as follows:
<1> in a short span of time, people get charged and comes forward to
support wfs-india.
<2> People actually learnt what localization is and how to get started in
any language by using transifex and pootle server.
<3> On founding any problem during localization, they can contact to
language co-rodinator through mailing lists.
<4> faces some problems during hackathon on pootle server needs to short
out.
<5> more things on localization will be introduced in the upcoming event.

Following features needs to be added in the pootle server in order to
improve it.
<1> Test the working of mozilla locamotion on all different available
browsers to avoid 500 internal server error.
<2> Show language code against the language name.
<3> creation of help desk to solve problem quickly if any problem occured
during hackathon.
<4> Sometimes the pootle translation page does not responds- it needs to be
fixed.
<5> porting all translations of mozilla projects to locamotion for easy
translation.

And lastly , the event was successful to some extent as we have expected. I
would like to thanks all people who have directly or indirectly supported
us in successful completion of the hackathon.A special thanks to Mozilla
Locamotion and Transifex Developers.

Please help us in promoting women in FOSS by joining #wfs-india (Freenode)
channel for a meeting on 27th May, 2013 at sharp 09:30 P:M (IST).

All the above things are mentioned in the blog. <
http://ciypro.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/localization-hackathon-wfs-india-20th-may-2013/
>
Some important links:
<1> IRC Chat Logs: http://fpaste.org/13234/
<2> Mozilla Event Page:
https://reps.mozilla.org/e/localization-hackathon-wfs-india/#
<3> Public Event Page: http://wfs-india.github.io/#/step-1
<4> getting started:
http://ciypro.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/localization-hackathon-get-started/

Thanks,

With Best Wishes,
Chandan Kumar
Final Year, Computer Science and Engineering
Dr.B.C.Roy Engineering College, Durgapur
https://ciypro.wordpress.com
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