Week 1: Pootle is up and running

With exams on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, the first week of GSoC went rather quick. My plan for this week was to get Pootle up and running, as well as look at the po4a configuration file and understand how it works.

I have set up Pootle on pootle.xcde.net. I have also converted some files, and the result can be seen on pootle.xcde.net/projects/website.

The plan for next week is to take a closer look at the files that I didn't manage to convert in this round.

Open Tech 2009 in London

Open Tech 2009 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, democracy and community.

When: Saturday 4th July 2009
Where: Central London
Cost: £5 on the door.

More information on the Open Tech 2009 website.

Tor 0.2.0.34 now in hardy and intrepid

The latest stable release of Tor, version 0.2.0.34, has been backported to Ubuntu hardy and intrepid. Those of you running either hardy or intrepid should upgrade to get the latest version. Also, the bug report on bugs.launchpad.net explains why Tor was taken out of jaunty.

Preparing the files

I decided to get a little head start on my project by preparing a few files so that they can later be converted with po4a. When converting, po4a will make a string for each paragraph (or list-item) and therefore it is important that all of the tags are closed. In the next round I'll find a way to work around a few special links (such as "< package-rpm4-stable-sha1 >") and symbols (such as € and £).

An introduction

First of all I'd just like to say that I am really excited about working for the Tor project in this year's Google Summer of Code.

My name is Runa Sandvik and I am a student at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). This summer I will be working on the translation wiki for the Tor website - making it possible to translate the website via Pootle. At the moment the Tor project uses wml for the website and Pootle to handle translations for various projects such as Torbutton and Vidalia. To make it easier for translators, translating the website should be possible via Pootle. I intend to use the po4a framework to convert the .wml files to .po files (and back) so that they can be handled by Pootle.

I will try to keep this blog updated with news about my progress during the summer. Feel free to comment here or join #tor on OFTC (irc.oftc.net) should you want to discuss this project or ask any questions.