[FM Discuss] Fwd: [Grassroots-l] Translators; A tale about one of the many unsung "heros" of OLPC

[adam hyde]

hehe! yeah she did it in FM ...cool....

http://translate.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/XO_fr/WebHome
http://translate.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar_fr/Personalising

Still a few chapters not done but most looking good :)

congrats Cecile!

adam


On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 11:56 +0000, David Farning wrote:
> Hey thought this might be of interest!
> 
> david
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Niklaus Giger <niklaus.giger at member.fsf.org>
> Date: Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:45 PM
> Subject: [Grassroots-l] Translators; A tale about one of the many
> unsung "heros" of OLPC
> To: grassroots at lists.laptop.org
> Cc: localization at lists.laptop.org, cecile.r at bluewin.ch, Support
> Gangsters <support-gang at laptop.org>
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> Last Saturday I had the pleasure to meet Cécile Wyler from
> Lausanne/Switzerland which is one of the three persons in charge of
> translating Sugar and the manual into French.
> 
> She has devoted - supported by her husband - more than 200 hours translating
> XO's FLOSS manual into French.
> 
> When I opened my bag and passed her the XO it was a almost magic moment when
> she touched for the first time in her life a XO!
> 
> You could see how she recalled the manual when she opened the XO, started it
> up, went to the control panel, change the language from english -> french and
> after a reboot the menu/help and everything appeared in French!
> 
> I would like to thank publicly Cécile for her work.
> 
> And many thanks to every single contributor of the localization team. It is
> such an important job and I always feel  proud of our community work when I
> can present the XO to somebody as a computer "speaking" his or her language.
> 
> And thanks go also to the laptop foundation for giving out XOs to developers
> in the whole world.
> 
> Please keep on with your work.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> --
> Niklaus Giger
> 
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