Localization Works of Open Source Softwares in …

Localization Works of Open Source Softwares in
                    Turkey

Baris Metin (baris at uludag.org.tr), A. Murat Eren (meren at uludag.org.tr)
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                                7 Haziran 2005

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                                       Ozet

       Open source softwares and documents localization works in Turkey listed in
   this document.




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Icindekiler
1   Introduction                                                                                                             3

2   Official Localization Groups                                                                                             3
    2.1 GNOME Turkey . . . .         .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   3
    2.2 GNU-TR . . . . . . . .       .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   3
    2.3 KDE Turkey . . . . . . .     .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   4
    2.4 Mozilla Turkey . . . . .     .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   4
    2.5 Turkish OpenOffice.org .     .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   4
    2.6 PostgreSQL Turkish . .       .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   4

3   Documentation Groups                                                                                                     5
    3.1 belgeler.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                               5

4   GNU/Linux Distributions Localization Groups                                                                              5
    4.1 Debian GNU/Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                   5
    4.2 Fedora GNU/Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                   5
    4.3 Mandrake GNU/Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                     6




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1 Introduction
You can help Uludag Project with help listed localization groups. Because of our pri-
marily software decisions, if you want make your localization works useful directly for
this project you can contact us from our mailing lists1 . Furthermore you can contact
us for changed or missing localization projects and any any change you want on this
document. Also you may want to reach these listed groups to ask them to translate an
open source software, a project documentation or even a project web site into Turkish.
Listing of localization groups is categorized and in alphabetical order.


2 Official Localization Groups

2.1 GNOME Turkey




They work on GNOME's localization and promotion. They help developing of soft-
ware.

Website: http://www.gnome.org.tr
Status Page: http://l10n-status.gnome.org/
E-mail List: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-turk


2.2 GNU-TR




They prepare Turkish support for GNU softwares that works on Linux.

Website: http://gnu-tr.sourceforge.net
E-mail List: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnu-tr-u12a
  1 http://liste.uludag.org.tr/




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2.3 KDE Turkey



They work on KDE's localization and promotion.

Website: http://www.kde.org.tr
E-mail List: http://www.kde.org.tr/mailman/listinfo/yerellestirme


2.4 Mozilla Turkey

They work on localization of web tools that developed by Mozilla Foundation.

Website: http://www.mozilla.org.tr
E-mail List: http://lists.mozilla.org.tr/mailman/listinfo/mozilla


2.5 Turkish OpenOffice.org

They work on OpenOffice.org's localization and promotion. They help developing of
software to make it 100% Turkish compatible.

Website: http://tr.openoffice.org
Status Page: http://ootrans.iqchoice.com/
E-mail List: http://tr.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList


2.6 PostgreSQL Turkish



They prepare Turkish documents and Turkish support for PostgreSQL database server
and additional tools.

Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgsqlturkce
Status Page:
      http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/nlsstatus/#tcurrent




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3 Documentation Groups

3.1 belgeler.org




They create a rich document archive includes original documents and Turkish transla-
tion of many documents that published under one of open source licenses.

Website: http://www.belgeler.org


4 GNU/Linux Distributions Localization Groups

4.1 Debian GNU/Linux




They work on localization of Debian GNU/Linux.

E-mail List: http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-turkish/


4.2 Fedora GNU/Linux



They work on localization of Fedora GNU/Linux.

Status Page: http://i18n.redhat.com/cgi-bin/i18n-status
E-mail List:
     http://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-trans-tr




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4.3 Mandrake GNU/Linux




They work on localization of Mandrake GNU/Linux.

Status Page: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/l10n/tr.php3
Contact Address: omerusta at gmail.com




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