[UbuntuWomen] Report of the Localization Hackathon event on CFD

[Satabdi Das]

WFS-india, a voluntary organization has been created a month back by some
enthusiastic people wanting to see some gender parity in FOSS world. The
group decided to organize a Localization Hackathon event on the eve of
Cultural Freedom Day on 20th may, 2013 from 08:00pm to 09:30pm at the above
mentioned channel.

The event aimed to get participants localize a few strings from any of
Mozilla, Fedora or VLC Media Player. It was attended by seven participants
from  across the globe <holingpoon, erry, sunu, Anupam, shweta,
anexasajoop, sri_c>. More details about the participants are given below in
the chat log. The session was coordinated by Chandan Kumar with the
assistance of Biraj karmakar and Runab Battacharya. Amani_glugcal,
kaustavdm, Priyankanag also helped in the event.

People learnt what is localization and how to get started in any language
by using transifex and pootle server. They were asked to contact the
language co-rodinators via mailing lists if they face any issue. Due to
lack of time the participants could not start translating any string.

It was realized that it is not possible to hold a full localization
workshop within a short span of 1 hour. Participants faced various problem
with one not being able to log in to one not finding her language in the
list of languages.

But overall it was a nice event where people took out time from their
schedule and tried to contribute to FLOSS.

* The chat log of the event can be found at - http://fpaste.org/13234/
* This report has been prepared from the original
report<http://ciypro.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/localization-hackathon-wfs-india-20th-may-2013/>written
by Chandan Kumar.
* The next meeting of the group is at #wfs-india on freenode on 27 May,
from 9:30pm IST.

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