User:Matiphas

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Intro

• I'm a French guy living in France England (London), but wanting to move (anywhere, as long as it is in a mountain area) (moutains are quite small near London).
• My main tasks on Inkscape consist in the translation of interface and documents to French.
• My motivation for contributing to the development of Inkscape is that I want to be able to draw some small maps/topos for my favourite hobbies (caving, climbing, mountaineering, biking).
• I can be contacted via email (matiphas at free dot fr) or be found on irc freenode/#inkscape (nickname matiphas[fr] or gero).

Todo list:

Translation

• polish French translations (typography, style...) before 0.45 0.46
  • must polish translations of interface, tutorial and release notes
  • replace the following by appropriate char : accentuated upcase chars, ..., non-breakable spaces, half spaces, ", oe, x, - (etc.)
• take a look at disambiguification of strings in interface, plus translatability of some new strings (palette names/colors...)
• Translate release notes to French
  • 0.46 not started yet
  • 0.45 on going
  • 0.44 done, needs a review
  • 0.43 done (not by me), review on going
  • others : starting now
• Translate to French "a guide to Inkscape" (on going)
• Involve Lubomira on translation some content to Slovak

Support/Process

• Update Inkscape Terminology wiki page (on going) : see http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InkscapeTerminology
• Join some other translation teams (Gnome/KDE)
  • Already joined Rosetta (Ubuntu), but did not find much time to really involve
• Update FAQ :
  • not started yet. Must set this up for 0.45
  • take lead on update of FAQ page + incorporation in package
• Work on some embedded help content : see http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Embedded_help
• Interviews and articles
  • interview questions reviewed by Bryce and Pygmee (thanks). Now trying to find potential victims!
  • try to code a small extension, and write an article about this (English and French).
  • start a small article on basic utilisation of Inkscape
• Take a look again to Tutorials brought by http://www.linuxgraphic.org, and see if they can be adapted to Inkscape

Tools

• test xml2po for French tutorials and keys.xml
  • (German guys are quite strong with it)
  • test xml2po on tutorials illustrations : Colin reported it works ! (must say that Colin is a tough guy !)
• check again xslt for generating tutorials (saxon is a nightmare on my machine)
  • install Dapper Ubuntu instead of Breezy
  • verify Java is much more usable (gcj or sun?)
  • test again Saxon
• test OmegaT for translations
  • same, java is needed for this
  • must not forget that OmegaT team has been very nice, helping us finding some new translator contacts, and is also able to provide fast and efficient support when i will test the application

Done

Translation

• Interface translation to French: 0.40, 0.41, 0.42, 0.43, 0.44, 0.45.
  • Supported by Romain Thouvenain, Frédéric Rodrigo, Jonathan Ernst & Cédric Gemy
• Tutorial translations to French (Basic, Shapes, Advanced, Calligraphy, Tracing, Tips&tricks, Elements of design)
• Translation of Release notes to French: 0.35, 0.44
• Translation of Release announce to French: 0.44
• Play a little bit with sdpd po files
  • Done : the result is that those files do not bring some new significant translation, but at least can maybe motivate some new volunteers. Better having them than not.

Support/Process

• Update Translation Information wiki page
  • Almost done. A few updates needed.
  • Have been helped a lot by Xavier, Colin and vonHalenBach
• Try to recruit some new translators:
  • Debian-l18n: done.
  • www.indlinux.org, www.panl10n.net, www.arabeyes.org have been contacted, but no real answer yet.
  • Main focus is on Asian and African languages.
  • Bubulle (Christian Perrier), Debian-fr translation leader, has been very nice too when looking for some other translators

Tools

• l10_status_news: derivated from original l10_status_script, generates a simple interface translation status, ready to be copied/pasted in website news. Worked with Bryce and Cornelius
• Worked on ambiguous interface strings: very short strings in a few dialogs are now marked with Q_(context|string to translate).

Creation

Hi Matiphas, Thanks for all your work on the wiki! I have activated your sysop permissions, so you have some extra tools for managing the translated wiki pages and controlling spam. BryceHarrington 10:26, 13 June 2006 (PDT)

Thanks a lot Bryce.

Translation information

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