Re: [translate-discuss-af] Fwd: [ACTION] FirefoxOS and locales in Africa

[Dwayne B. <dw...@tr...>]

On 23 May 2014 12:44, Kobus Wolvaardt <kob...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If you need someone to sponsor a device for a translator or two, I'd be
> happy if the cost is not ridiculous... I would happily test and help
> translating as well.
>
> Do you have an idea of what it will cost?
>

Looks like the new dev phone is coming in at about USD170


>
> Kobus
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> On 23 May 2014 10:30, Dwayne Bailey <dw...@tr...> wrote:
>
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > This may interest many of you.  Would love to see Firefox OS in
> Afrikaans.
> > I spoke to Samuel earlier this week and he was willing to do the bulk of
> > translation on Afrikaans for Firefox OS.  But we really need to have some
> > other contributors to review translation, test and translate the other
> bits
> > and pieces that are part of a Firefox OS release.
> >
> > For those of you who don't know Firefox OS is Mozilla's move into the
> > smartphone space.  Essentially using browser technology (HTML, CSS and
> > Javascript) to run a mobile phone. Or using Firefox web browser to make
> > phone. I have one that I'm using day to day and its pretty neat.  If you
> > believe in Mozilla's mantra of "the open web" then this is an exciting
> way
> > to unlock the mobile phone space.  They've had a lot of interest from
> > mobile phone operators.
> >
> > The advantage of the phone is that it is easier to get localised phones
> to
> > market then it would be on Apple (good luck) and Android (slightly more
> > luck).  Though Afrikaans is a priority language in most cases.
> >
> > So the work would mean we can get an Afrikaans phone without too much
> > effort.  Mozilla is quite generous in handing out testing phones to those
> > who translate and test.  The real tell is if they find a partner in South
> > Africa willing to launch the phone.  Chicken and egg situation I guess.
> >
> > The Afrikaans files are already up on
> > http://mozilla.locamotion.org/af/firefoxos/ if you want to have a look.
>  I
> > haven't double checked permissions, but probably making suggestions is
> the
> > good first approach if you are interested.
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: delphine <leb...@gm...>
> > Date: 23 May 2014 01:53
> > Subject: [ACTION] FirefoxOS and locales in Africa
> > To: dev...@li...
> >
> >
> > Hello fellow localizers
> >
> > I am reaching out to you today with some fantastic news. After the recent
> > interest and focus on Indic locales for FirefoxOS - which Jeff so
> > wonderfully described in his "Call to Action" here
> >
> >
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mozilla.dev.l10n/$20[ACTION]$20Firefox$20OS$20localization$20for$20reference$20device$20/mozilla.dev.l10n/X1TmyDLCZHI/mz9lEGbjAq8J-
> > we have heard of strong interest in languages spoken in Africa as well
> > \o/
> >
> > So, what does this mean? This means that in upcoming months we will be
> > getting more and more partner requests interested in shipping many
> African
> > locales. This is also a great opportunity in order to get your
> localization
> > up and running on the Flame reference device, which is coming very, very
> > shortly.
> >
> > Please reach out here if you have any questions about this or if you need
> > to get set-up. Also don't hesitate to communicate your overall interest
> in
> > working on the localization of your locale on FirefoxOS - and this of
> > course even if you're not working an locale from Africa. In fact as you
> > know, we're still working hard on getting more and more locales available
> > on FirefoxOS device, independent of any particular partner request.
> >
> > Thanks all for all the hard work everyone! As you see, it's definitely
> > paying off.
> >
> > cheers
> > delphine
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