[LUAU] Hawaii Linux translation project - Announcement and list creation

Jim Thompson jim at netgate.com
Fri Jan 20 13:53:06 PST 2006


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On Jan 17, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Julian Yap wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A Mailing list has been created on the lists.hosef.org machine to  
> house
> the "Hawaii Linux translation project".
>
> What the Hawaii Linux translation project aims to do is build upon the
> proposal made by Jim Thompson at TPOSSCON 2006.
>
> This presentation can be heard here:
> http://www.tposscon.com/audio.php
> http://www.hosef.org/media/TPOSSCON-JimThompson-2006.01.12.mp3
>  - Direct MP3 download (17 Mb - 19min)
> http://www.hosef.org/media/TPOSSCON-JimThompson-2006.01.12.ogg
>  - Direct Ogg Vorbis download (12 Mb - 19min)
>
> Jim's proposal involved a localized version of Linux that would
> initially include translating everything into Hawaiian.
>
> This would then extend to our own Hawaiian distribution of Linux which
> would include calendars, artworks... The whole bit.
>
> The proposal was to use Ubuntu/Kubuntu Linux as this has the best
> infrastructure in place to support such a project.  This is through  
> the
> Rosetta translation system.
>
> This post is just a general overview.  Please feel free to  
> contribute to
> this discussion.
>
> - Julian
> http://www.julianyap.com
>
> Further links to check out:
> 1. Ubuntu Linux - http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
> 2. Rosetta translation system - https://launchpad.net/rosetta/
>
>
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