Friedel Wolff, of Translate, presented at the 17th Annual LRC Conference in Limerick, Ireland on 20 September 2012. A number of high profile cases have been mentioned of social networks localising at impressive speed. Facebook and Twitter as some of the most prominent social networking services certainly get a lot of attention. What can we […]
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Ugandan students translate Firefox
NewsPublished in Tectonic Students and linguists from Makerere University have translated the open source web browser, Mozilla Firefox, into Luganda at a Translate@thon held on the campus in Kampala, Uganda last week. The two-day gathering brought together almost 200 students and allowed them to make a practical contribution to their language’s presence in the digital […]
Africa Source II – Free and Open Source Software for Local Communities
ConferenceTranslate lead the localisation track during AfricaSource. One of our participants Solomon Gizaw went on to complete a PhD in Localisation at the Localisation Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland. Africa Source II was an eight day hands-on workshop aimed at building the technical skills of those working with and within NGOs on the continent. […]