<div dir="ltr"><div><font style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><span style="font-family:arial">Hi Everyone, </span><div style="font-family:arial"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial">I am Masnun from Bangladesh. I am doing my graduation in business administration from Khulna University. I was looking at project ideas for GSoC 2013 and I found the idea of validating translated string based on style guides quite interesting. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial">Before I dive into the project related discussions, here's a little bit about me. I have always tried my best to remain involved in the local open source community over the years. I am volunteering as a moderator in the local PHP [1], Python [2] and Linux [3] user groups. I have presented talks to national conferences [4] and I maintain some very small scale projects on Github [5]. I have recently started offering free Python lessons to interested students. At my leisure, I sometimes do screencasts to help others in learning stuff [6]. I have also collaborated with Ankur Bangladesh in the translation of "Snake Wrangling for Kids" [7]. You can look me up on LinkedIn [8] or have a look at my blog [9]. Since I have made some small contributions in different areas, I thought I should try something bigger this time. With GSoC, I found a decent opportunity to do that. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial">Now regarding the project idea, the particular project I am interested in is - "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif">A validation system for translated strings based upon Translation Style Guides of language communities." I have gone through the mailing list archive of 2013 so far trying to get the basic idea about the project. From the mailing list, it does look like a relatively less discussed/mentioned project to me. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif">From what I understood, the project involves creating an automated system that evaluates translated strings against community specified style guides (some sort of guides or rules which define how a correct translation should be done). As a starter this is what I am going to do now - </span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial"><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, arial, freesans, clean, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial"><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, arial, freesans, clean, sans-serif"># Find out more about style guides.</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial"><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, arial, freesans, clean, sans-serif"># Check out the translation procedure for at least two large open source projects (Mozilla and WordPress could be good choices).</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial"><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, arial, freesans, clean, sans-serif"># Learn more about .po and .mo files. </font></div><div style="font-family:arial"><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, arial, freesans, clean, sans-serif"># Learn more about localization and internationalization. <br>
</font><div># Find and talk to some local people who are actively contributing to such translation projects to get the real life scenario. </div><div><br></div><div>I also look forward to having some random chats about the project idea on the IRC channel if I can manage to catch you guys sometimes.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>I shall follow up with my findings and ideas so that you people can help me better understand the project and improve any thoughts I might come up with. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards, <br>Masnun</div>
<div><br></div><div> </div><div>References: </div><div><br></div><div>[1] phpXperts - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/pxperts/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/pxperts/</a></div><div>[2] PyCharmers - <a href="http://pycharmers.net">http://pycharmers.net</a> </div>
<div>[3] nixers - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/nixersbd/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/nixersbd/</a> </div><div>[4] Talks - <a href="http://www.masnun.com/talks">http://www.masnun.com/talks</a></div><div>[5] Github - <a href="https://github.com/masnun">https://github.com/masnun</a> & <a href="https://github.com/urtbd/">https://github.com/urtbd/</a> </div>
<div>[6] <a href="http://webgeek.im">webgeek.im</a> - <a href="http://webgeek.im">http://webgeek.im</a> </div><div>[7] swfk-bn - <a href="https://swfk-bn.googlecode.com/files/swfk-bn.pdf">https://swfk-bn.googlecode.com/files/swfk-bn.pdf</a> </div>
<div>[8] LinkedIn - <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/masnun">http://www.linkedin.com/in/masnun</a></div><div>[9] Blog - <a href="http://masnun.com">http://masnun.com</a> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div><br></div>-- <br><font style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">Abu Ashraf Masnun | +8801711960803 | <a href="http://masnun.me/" target="_blank">http://masnun.me</a></font></div></font>
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