8th Sakai Conference

4-7 December 2007Newport Beach

Internationalization & Internationalization & LocalizationLocalization

Beth Kirschner - University of Michigan

Raul Mengod - Universidad Politecnica de Valencia

Anna Korsun - Smolny College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Vitaly Khudobakhshov - Smolny College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

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Localization (L10N) versus Localization (L10N) versus Internationalization (I18N)Internationalization (I18N)

• Localization of a web interface is usually limited to isolating the language dependencies such that they can be easily translated.

• Internationalization of a web interface takes into account many aspects beyond strict translation of the text, such as cultural differences, space allocation and formatting.

• Sakai needs to consider both.

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Where is Sakai?Where is Sakai?

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Current TranslationsCurrent Translations• Arabic • English/UK (new)• Catalan• Simplified Chinese (updated)• Dutch (updated)• French/France (new)• French/Canadian (updated)• Japanese (updated)• Korean (updated)• Russian (new)• Spanish (updated)• Swedish

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Translations UnderwayTranslations Underway

• Traditional Chinese• Danish• German• Hebrew• Mongolian• Portuguese• Slovakian• Turkish• Vietnamese

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I18N Progress ReportI18N Progress Report• Over 50 enhancements and bug fixes in Sakai 2.5• Increased awareness of I18N with developers• SVN commit access for translators

• I18N Wish List (vote for your favorites!)– SAK-8908: Dynamic localization of tool/page titles– SAK-7000: Adopt Localized Date/Time Widget for all tools– SAK-12320: Separate configuration from internationalization

properties files (separate folders) – SAK-2601: Localization of permissions names/descriptions

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How to get involvedHow to get involved

• Best practices in confluence (http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/I18N)

• JIRA - comment, vote, add issues

• JIRA - contribute patches

• Join i18n@collab.sakaiproject.org

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Priorities for Sakai 2.6 and Priorities for Sakai 2.6 and beyond?beyond?