[Indlinux-group] request - Indic translations for subtitles of blender movie Sintel

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@in...>]

Hi All,
  About 2 weeks back, I had fwded a mail from Vinay Pawar (known as
Zoyd on irc), who had requested for subtitle translation of blender
open movie - Sintel. We had got Hindi and Bengali done that time
(Malayalam had already been done).

In an unfortunate fate, Vinay died in fatal road accident in Pune
on afternoon of 9th October. He was to be presenting Sintel movie and
Blender during PLUG meet which had just started and we were
waiting for him when the sad news came in.
He was active member in Pune LUG, Blender and IndLinux.
At different times he had done some artwork and website stuff for
Indlinux site.

A short bio of him is here
http://plug.org.in/pipermail/plug-mail/2010-October/007948.html

Now coming back to Sintel subtitles, the few days before his sudden
demise, Vinay was pushing us for Indic translations of subtitles.
Hindi and Bengali were done that time.

Bengali - http://runab.fedorapeople.org/sintel_bn.srt
Hindi  -  http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/Sintel_Hindi

If we could complete other languages too, then could release all of
them together in his memory.
I request members of all language teams to contribute, so we can
release all languages together.

Reproducing Vinay's message below:
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Blender Foundation produces an open movie/game project once a year as
a test of blender's codebase/features and also serves as a demo of
it's capabilities.

These movies are available in the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
license and can be downloaded from respective project's website -
http://www.sintel.org/
All source material(blend/texture files) is also available for
previous projects, so shall for this one too.

We're trying to translate the subtitles(dialogs) of the Sintel movie
which was released on 30th Sep 2010(last weekend) into our languages
and make it available for download. You can get the english subtitles
here http://www.sintel.org/wp-content/content/subtitles/sintel_en.srt

It's about ~25 lines of dialog

Sample translations into other languages:
http://www.sintel.org/wp-content/content/subtitles/sintel_de.srt
http://www.sintel.org/wp-content/content/subtitles/sintel_ru.srt

The current subtitle translation is coordinated on this forum thread:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=198857

The current status is:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showpost.php?p=1713963&postcount=51

It'd be cool if we can submit subtitle translations for Hindi,
Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and other
languages.

Translation would require encoding the .srt file and composed in
respective script. Proper nouns, names of characters are merely
transliterated. Most important is the use of appropriate words to
convey the meaning of the phrase/word and this needs some
thought/review.

Also, please make available some space to collect the srt files and
have them reviewed before we submit them.

http://www.blender.org/
http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/blender-open-projects/
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Regards,
Karunakar