From: "Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay" essemm@softhome.net To: "Frederick Noronha" fred@bytesforall.org Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 8:54 PM Subject: a call for volunteers

attached please find an attachment calling for volunteers for the Bangla Localisation Project (Ankur). can you pass this around ?

kindly do the needful. warm regards and have a wonderful day. sankarshan

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A call for 'Volunteers'

An Overview

The Ankur Bangla Translation Project is a voluntary community based localisation project aimed at facilitating the Bangla/Bengali version of the Gnome Project(of the Free Software Foundation). Under the aegis of this effort, around 12000 lines (in over 42 files) will be translated.

Current Status

As on 13.06.2003, more than 50% of the Gnome-Core and library files have been translated. The locale settings have been satisfactorily tested and the screenshots are available at the webpage of the Project at www.bengalinux.org

Volunteer Profile

The Ankur Project is in the final stages and this announcement forms the basis of a call for volunteers. The Project welcomes all those who are willing to participate, however the following qualities are most desirable:

[1] ability and willingness to work in a community based development project using the OpenSource Software development model.

[2] capability to identify the 'proper' vernacular equivalents of technical terms.

[3] possessing conceptual clarity about Human Computer Interaction as well as linguistic nuances.

[4] ease-of-use with GNU/Linux distributions, though the task of translation can also be carried out under other platforms (for details contact the mailing list).

[5] capability to devote time and effort to undertake translation of strings.

All contributions from volunteers will be duly acknowledged and credited. For further information about ongoing projects, please visit the homepage at www.bengalinux.org or join the mailing list gnome-translation@bengalinux.org.

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