Presentación do «Proxecto Trasno» na Libre Software World Conference 2012, 19 de outubro do 2012. CC BY-SA 2.0

1. Localizing into Galician,
our experience
Miguel Branco

2. A little bit of history
● By 1999,'GPUL-traducción' (part of the Grupo de
Programadores e Usuarios de Linux at UDC)
started to translate free open source software
(GNU/Linux, DE...).
● At the same time 'Gzlinux' (partly associated to
GLUG) was born, but instead rather focused on
translating documentation (HOWTOs, FAQs...)
● At the end of that year, they 'merge' into an open
Galician language translation project
● First called 'LeGal (Linux En Galego)', on march
2000 they decided to be named 'proxecto Trasno'

3. 'Ao principio, e a falta dun nome mellor, empregabamo-lo nome LeGal
(Linux En Galego) para referírmonos ao grupo, pero en maio do 2000
decidimos que o nome proposto por Francisco X. Vazquez Grandal,
Trasno, era mellor. Tamén seguimo-lo antigo costume de buscar un
nome e logo adaptarlle un significado, pero non atopamos ningún, ou
máis ben atopamos de máis, polo que algúns preferimos empregalo coma
unha simple palabra, e outros prefiren dicir que significa cousas coma
"TRAductores Solitarios do NOroeste", segundo a proposta orixinal, ou
mesmo "TRAductores Sen NOme" ;-) '
Jacobo Tarrío Barreiro & Jesús Bravo Álvarez - 2001

4. ● Free philosophy assumed from the start-up
of the project
– 'In addition, computer science is such an
important field that it cannot be ignored
and, again, be another area where Galician
[language] is not introduced. At the end of
the day, most computers users are young
people and supposedly those who will
speak Galician in the future... if everything
goes well :) '
Jacobo Tarrío Barreiro & Jesús Bravo
Álvarez – 2001

5. Achievements after these 13th years
● Focused on GNU, Linux distributions and
Desktop Environments from the start
● Engaged in the most relevant Galician
language translation projects
– Translation Project
– SuSe/openSUSE, Mandrake/Mandriva, Debian, Ubuntu,
Fedora, Arch Linux, MiniNO...
– Desktop environments: GNOME, KDE, LXDE, Xfce...
– OpenOffice/LibreOffice, Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird,
Inkscape, GIMP, Scribus,...
● Galician language spell-checkers: Ispell,
Hunspell

6. ● Bugs and contributions to the
development of Translate
Toolkit, Pology and CAT tools
(Lokalize, Virtaal, Gtranslator...)
● Development of
● Tiboxe, a terminology query tool
● Trobador, an online translation
memory web service
● Glósima, terminology discussion
system
● Terminator, web server
management terminology

7. ● 'As trasnadas'
– Meet ups to train new translators
– Debate and fix new computer science terminology into our
language. After five events, nearly 500 new terms were agree on
and defined. Those decisions are actually being applied at the main
localization projects.
Trasnada '10, Ordes

8. 'Proxecto Trasno' supported
by a non-profit NGO
● After some previous meetings and discussions, we founded a
cultural association (a non-profit NGO) at 2009
● What trigger us set up a NGO was to be the legal representation of
the open community
● Being an active translator is required to be associated to the NGO
AC Proxecto Trasno foundation event
- 17/10/2009

9. Why are we focused exclusively
on libre open-source software?

10. Number of languages translated into
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
Gnome GNOME 3.4 KDE KDE 4.8 Win7 OS X 10.6

11. Risk
Language risk of extintion based on SIL and UNESCO reports
Constructed
Seriously Endangered
Gnome Team
KDE Team
Endangered GNOME 3.4
KDE 4,8
Win7
OS X 10.6
Potentially Endangered
Not Endangered
Ancient
0 20 40 60 80 100 120

12. ● Libre open source software
philosophy
– first, helps on preservation of
endangered languages
– and second, facilitates enterprises to
enter into new markets