Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Gnome and I


The first day I was told that I was awarded Gnome internship I knew that my life will never be the same again in the career field that I chose to pursue. On the 24 of February 2012 I got recognition from Translate.org.za for being one of the people who showed initiative and willingness in developing their mother tongue language, mentioning that I have become the second South African woman to be awarded a GNOME internship. Being a Gnome Intern also granted me an opportunity to have my career profile reviewed on the UNISA Radio Station on the 24th of February 2012. The importance of having Gnome apps available in the IsiXhosa language, for me it is to share exciting and interesting news to the public. I can say so far the journey with Gnome has been bliss and exciting all the way. Thank you Gnome!

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My progress so far

I have worked in the following files:

1. Feb. 21, 2012 gnome-session - master - UI translations - Xhosa Translating

2. 2012-02-27T10:53:10Feb. 27, 2012 gedit - master - UI translations - Xhosa Translated

3. 2012-02-27T10:55:46Feb. 27, 2012 gnome-shell - master - UI translations - Xhosa To Review

4. 2012-03-01T10:30:29March 1, 2012 gnome-bluetooth - master - UI translations - Xhosa Translated

5. 2012-03-01T10:34:14March 1, 2012 gnome-power-manager - master - UI translations - Xhosa Translated

6. 2012-03-01T10:35:48March 1, 2012 gnome-user-share - master - UI translations - Xhosa Proofreading

7. 2012-03-01T10:51:42March 1, 2012 gnome-backgrounds - master - UI translations - Xhosa Translated

I am about to finish translating Totem and Caribou and I am still continuaing with my transations.

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Friday, February 17, 2012

Week 6-17 February

The whole of last week we worked on terminology and the this week I continued with some translation. It went all well besides the testing of help file that is still on hold due to my struggle to run a successful script on Terminal but I am still working on that.


Yesterday

cheese - master - User Guide - Xhosa

Translating

Yesterday

gnome-power-manager - master - UI translations - Xhosa

Translated

Yesterday

gnome-user-share - master - UI translations - Xhosa

Proofreading


The Next coming week I am planning to finish the files I have reserved for translation.


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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

The love of work overcomes all problems

I do not want to lie I had some few problems with my computer since the Gnome internship. For instance the other day I was working and I experienced power failure. When I had to open my computer it showed that I must repair system files.I panicked a bit but I thought to myself I am not the first person to experience this problem. I Googled the answer in my BlackBerry mobile device.

I found the answer that I should type:

“blkid followed by this command: fsck -y /dev/sda2 and then type exit”.

It worked and I got back to my work.

The conclusion is, no matter what problem I can face the love of my work in Localization (Gnome Software translation) has gave me an inspiration that there is no problem that cannot be fixed. I am still continuing with my work, thirsty to learn more and excited to see more results.

Again I say the love of work overcomes all problems!

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Planning week 30-Jan to 3rd February 2012




This week I will be focusing on documentation (help file). I will focus on the help files on Mallard Format. Help files of the files I have already translated.


I will focus on one document at a time cause leaving a file half way and jump to another one does not help.


The one file that I am about to finish with its software translated is Cheese which I reserved earl yer this month although I was working with some other files.


cheese master

Cheese is a program to take pictures and videos. It has fun effects and nice view of photo stream at the side.

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Friday, January 20, 2012

Weeks 09 Jan- 20th Jan


What I did in past weeks

I have done some document translation and they are quite tricky. It is the reason that my pace tend to drop a little bit. For now I have downloaded a help file for Cheese and Gnome-control. The other document is from Damned Lies website with general information about the Open source License.

I have worked on the following files:
Jan. 9, 2012 gnome-documents - master - UI translations - Xhosa Translated
Jan. 9, 2012 gnome-video-effects - master - UI translations - Xhosa Translating
Jan. 10, 2012 gnome-contacts - master - UI translations - Xhosa Translated
Jan. 11, 2012 alacarte - master - UI translations - Xhosa Translated
Jan. 11, 2012 caribou - master - UI translations - Xhosa Translating
Jan. 12, 2012 gnome-shell - master - UI translations - Xhosa Translated
Jan. 13, 2012 gnome-backgrounds - master - UI translations - Xhosa Translated
Jan. 17, 2012 gnome-font-viewer - master - UI translations - Xhosa Translated
Jan. 17, 2012 gnome-screenshot - master - UI translations - Xhosa To Review
Jan. 17, 2012 gnome-screensaver - master - UI translations - Xhosa Translated
Jan. 18, 2012 gnome-power-manager - master - UI translations - Xhosa Translating
Yesterday gnome-user-share - master - UI translations - Xhosa Translating

- My plans for the next week
My plan for next week is to download more po files and translate them.
Proofreading


- Things that I am waiting for that keeps a task from completing

Proof reading and testing can takes time before I upload the po file in the Damned Lies website.
Correcting work also take some time.
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Friday, January 6, 2012

First week in 2012. Complements of the New Year...


  • What I did in the week



  • - Things that you are waiting for that keeps a task from completing

  • The words that are not familiar with can take longer to find.

  • Long files takes more time to translate

  • Proofread and correcting can also take longer

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