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[Andraz Tori]

Hik, kak tak PR stunt bi lahk tud mi kdaj izvedl...

v kontrastu z miljonskmi posli pri prevajanju nekega operacijskega
sistema je stvar zelo zanimiva

Lep Pozdrav
Andraž Tori

Forwarded iz http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/spotlight20.html
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Hi!

Maybe this is a bit off-topic, but I think you'd all be somewhat
interested...

Several people in Hungary have had enough of not having a free, open
translation of the OpenOffice[.org] suite. (We have seen a now about 20%
[of a] free translation, which began 8 months ago; it is being
coordinated partly by Magosanyi Arpad, who is marked as the Hungarian
contact person on the OpenOffice.org website. This project is
independent of him.)

Let's start with the "story" part: We (3 people) decided that we would
do the translation from null, in just 3 days!

Yes, that's right, 3 days, from the 1st of February to the 4th February.
We got a machine-equipped room from the Technical University of
Budapest, several sponsors took care of the food (mostly pizza) and
drink (soft drinks, cola).

The project began on last Friday afternoon, and lasted until Monday
morning, and was mostly nonstop. About 12-16 people were in the project
room at a time, and about a 100 people collaborated over the 'net, using
our special PHP/CGI script. We translated the approximately 21000
strings that the localize tool had extracted, in about 36 hours, then we
proceeded to building, testing and correcting the result.

We didn't translate the help (and the "long" tooltips), and didn't
localize the "files" (autotext templates, etc.), but I think even
without these, this is a pretty good result. We have a webpage written
in Hungarian language on http://office.fsf.hu. I don't think this will
interest you, and some photos: http://office.fsf.hu/work/photos/.

We have appeared in several newsites here, and also had an appearance in
the public radio.

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