Announcing the LocalisationDev?.org Wiki and Planet Localisation

[Tien-jien Jiang]

We Heartily Invite Your Participation and Contributions!

http://localisationdev.org/

The first Localisation Developers Sprint took place in Warsaw, Poland
from 20 to 22 November, 2004. The event brought together a diverse
group of leaders and innovators in software and documentation
localisation for the NGO sector to share experiences, compare projects
and practices, and document the same. The Sprint was organised by
Aspiration (www.aspirationtech.org) and Tactical Tech Collective
(www.tacticaltech.org).

The goals of the Localisation Sprint were three-fold:
	• 	Individuals working in the localisation field rarely enjoy the
opportunity to convene, grow relationships and collaborate on applied
projects; the sprint provided a venue for enhancing the social network
of localisation practitioners while focusing on concrete outcomes.
	• 	Participants mapped out the localisation landscape, from tools to
guides to practices; many exciting projects and initiatives are
underway around the globe, but few top-down views exists into the
range of projects.
	• 	Participants laid the foundation and initial groundwork for
curricula designed to educate developers, technical intermediaries and
funders in the best practices and sustainable processes for
localisation in a broad scope of technology and documentation contexts
around the globe. The curricula will see their first use at Asia
Source in January 2005 (http://tacticaltech.org/asiasource/), an event
bringing together NGO technology activists and intermediaries from
Southeast Asia to discuss free and open source software deployment for
civil society organisations in the region.

All materials generated at the sprint are being published under
Creative Commons license to encourage the broadest use, adoption and
ongoing enhancement of those resources.

We invite anyone interested in these topics to visit
http://localisationdev.org/ to survey the work to this point and to
add their own knowledge, experience and comments to the mix. In
particular, we invite you to:
	• 	View the Wiki at http://wiki.localisationdev.org/ and add your
knowledge. We've attempted to create pages aimed at different
localisation audiences (including developers, eRiders, funders, and
end users), but there is much to be done in completing and broadening
these resources. A Wiki is a system of Web pages which allows easy
editing/adding of content simply through your Web browser.
	• 	Visit Planet Localisation at http://planet.localisationdev.org/,
check out the feeds and let us know of blogs we should be aggregating.
A Planet is a Web page that includes the most recent entries of the
blogs - online diaries - of people with a common interest (here, it's
Localisation).
	• 	Join the loc-dev mailing list and participate in discussions about
creating software that's adaptable for a broader range of locales. To
join, send email to: loc-dev-subscribe at lists.localisationdev.org or go
to subscription page at
http://lists.tacticaltech.org/mailman/listinfo/loc-dev

We invite you to please forward this announcement to any appropriate
lists, organisations and individuals. Thank you!

The LocalisationDev Organisers