Around 15 people met at FSMK office at 3:00 pm on Nov 1st to celebrate Rajyotsava. The plan was to have a localization sprint to localize Debian Installer. Since many were new to localization, we started by giving a brief about what localization is and the different tools used for localization. Then we divided ourselves into 5 groups and started the sprint. In around 2 hours, we were able to localize 46 strings. Most of the localization was done by Naveen, Shishir, Raghavendra, Prabodh and Jayakumar as each one was leading their group. Hopefully new comers understood the whole process of localization and will contribute to it in future. There are still 324 strings in debain-installer kn.po file and hence a very long way to go. However with few more such localization sprints, we should be able to complete the localization of remaining strings.
Along with the localization of strings, Rameez created a glossary of commonly used Computer Jargon. This will help any new comer to quickly find respective Kannada word for the English word. Also this will be followed as a standard while localizing. You can find the glossary here . Please feel free to add more words and correct if anything wrong.
In all, I feel very happy that in such short notice, we were still able to gather good number of participants and were actually able to localize a significant number of strings.
Prabodh and Naveen deeply into localizing the strings
