Merry Christmas

Today is Fedora’s day. Fedora release numbers reached to 14. Fedora 14 contains some good features like KDE 4.5 and D Programming. You can  find all features here. If you want to check a quick tour of Fedora 14 just see here.
Fedora 14 is very special version for Persian l10n team and all Persian community because of two great events. Fedora Persian localizers made great contribution after several years. Based on Fedora translation instance, Transifex, we have more than 33 packages with more than 80 % translated strings. Another big step in translation of Fedora is Fedora documentations. we initiated translation of Fedora Docs into Persian. Now we have a localized version of Doc site for Persian. Here I want to thank all my fellows in Persian team for such a big contribution.

During development of Fedora 14 we had an event for gathering Fedora users in Tehran. This event was the first promoting event of Fedora in Iran. So I think Fedora 14 is an lucky release for Persian users.

Maybe one day we have a FUDCO in Tehran,who knows? what do you think about new fedora?

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Xhosa pronunciation: [xoˈliɬaɬa manˈdeːla]), born 18 July 1918,^[1] served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election.

source: wikipedia

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Happy Norouz

Today I want to add some points to ongoing discussion about localized spins in Fedora Project. As a member of translation team, I think there is no need to create such spins. In translation of any packages there are two surfaces that every localizers can work on. The first one is the translation of GUI. As my experience shows that great majority of users prefer to use the source language rather than their localized GUI. This case is very special for RTL languages, like Persian and Balochi. Because the users   based on their previous experience with LTR interface are not familiar with this new interface. He can spend sometimes on RTL environment for example here, then when he surfs in internet, he uses LTR web pages. So the translated UI is not as favorable as we expect. For example, I myself get confused as I use a translated UI, because I don’t get accustomed a RTL interface at all.
The next item is translation of documentations. This is the point we should emphasis in localizing. A lot of Fedora users are not English native speakers or have difficulties in understanding English. As they get into trouble in using Fedora they are unable to find any local help, I mean in their computers. Localized docs can be useful here.
Shall we have a localized spin? frankly I should say that NO. As I check in Transifex in Fedora I find that we have 89 languages. If the Board authorized creation of a language-based spin for one language or two, the other languages that don’t have any spin up to that time may request a new spin. One day we have a lot of spins. I think it’s better to have a plan in development process to have some sort of modifications in coding for example in Anaconda. As a user select his region, for example, Anaconda  suggest usage of localized version. developers can think about installing of selective packages based on users locale, for example.

Any thought?Idea?

I voted for the Fedora Elections.

Fedora Board – December 2009

FESCo – December 2009

FAmSCo – December 2009

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