From tefera.tegegne በ gmail.com Tue Sep 19 19:03:28 2006 From: tefera.tegegne በ gmail.com (tegegne tefera) Date: Tue Sep 19 18:52:19 2006 Subject: [am-translate] Selam Message-ID: Selam all It has been some time since i communicated about the project. የእንጀራ ነገር፡፡ While i was cruising in the highway I came across this tool. http://uck.sourceforge.net/ With this script we can build an Amharic ubuntu live CD. (well i tried and failed for now) An Amharic live CD would really help us to catch attention. Simple and effective. It would also help us focus our job. While i was browsing the debian installer which is the first thing a live CD user encounters i sow that shewan has started translating the welcome message. Great job. The translatable files are at https://launchpad.net/products/debian-installer/+translations If we can call a debo and translate this tools it would be great. Shewan Do you think you can also look at the scripts and see if you can build the live CD. The other thing is to enable scim with kmfl and the Amharic EZ+ or Ez+i as a default IM in the live cd. I hope Daniel will have time to look in to this. It would be nice to know how the localization effort at home front coming along. In Ethiopia it was school holiday season so i do not expect much. But at least the glossary at AAU http://www.aau.edu.et/ictglossary/amharic/a_index.php available all the time. Though it still lacks a search tool. I have seen few FOSS initiatives in the country. http://www.efossnet.org/ is one of them. I enquired if they can get involved on the project and they ignored me:-). Now I see that the message I put on the forum is also deleted.;-). Well you can not win them all. On the other hand there has been some interest at Ethiopian Students Association international ESAi and we might use this organization to get help from Ethiopian students abroad. To organize the translation work better there has been a heated discussion at ubuntu and it is promised some improvement to Rosetta. I hope they will implement it as soon as possible. The holiday season is over and I hope all of us can dedicate our effort to producing one Amharic ubuntu livecd for the Ethiopian Millennium. መልካም አዲስ ዓመት ለሁላችንም ተገኝ