Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Easier localization of BigBlueButton

Thanks to contributions from our community, BigBlueButton is now localized in over thirty (30) languages.

This is awesome, but it's also a lot of work to keep up-to-date, especially as the number of language strings increase with each release, and as the developers must review each update before commit.

To make it easier for our community (and our developers), we've adapted the localize server from the Drupal to create

http://localize.bigbluebutton.org/

Here's a screen shot of localize.bigbluebutton.org:



We created a YouTube Video to show how easy it is to contribute to localizing the language strings.

Finally, we integrated the localization server with our GitHub account to automatically push updates to the language strings into souce. See the announcement in bigbluebutton-org for more information.

Thanks to Xie, Chen, and DJP for their initial effort to localization BigBlueButton. You guys made it possible for us to reach 30 languages.

7 comments:

MarcosBL said...

Joined, just waiting for aproval.

People like me, that sent updated version of es_ES to github must re-do all the work, or will it be auto-loaded ?

Felipe said...

Great job, waiting for approval :)

Fred Dixon said...

Hi MarcosBL,

We've imported all the existing language strings into localize.bigbluebutton.org, so you should have everything that has been committed thus far.

MarcosBL said...

Great to know Fred, still waiting for aproval, as soon as i get it, i'll complete the Spanish es_ES translation :)

MarcosBL said...

Not sure if i should notify here, in bigbluebutton-dev mailing list, in hithub... so... anyway, i just finished the Spanish es_ES translation update up to 100% at the new interface.

Best regards,

MarcosBL
http://marcosbl.com

Abel Camacho said...

Hi,

I´m Abel Camacho (http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=17619&course=1), Moodle´s basque traslation administrator.

I have seen that BigBlueButton is not translated to Basque.

We have traslated Moodle and Joomla to basque and we can translate BigBlueButton as well.

So, it would be great if you could give us some advide.

Thank you.

Fred Dixon said...

Hi Abel,

To translate BigBlueButton into basque, see http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/LocalizationOfBBB.

Regards,... Fred