Behind the scenes at TDF: NLP/L10n

In the first quarter of 2016 a lot of work has been carried out by the community. On the events side, FOSDEM gathered several LibreOffice members together, and a face-to-face meeting with the Pootle team took place to discuss further fixes and enhancements needed by our localization team. In the meantime, the board has approved the budget to implement those features and work is being carried out.

The German community went to the DIDACTA trade fair (and wrote a nice report in several languages) and also attended the full week at CeBIT.

Guess what? Our Japanese team organized 14 events since the beginning of the year – kudos to them for their energy, enthusiasm and dedication! The Indian team also organized four LibreOffice meetups since January where localisation (l10n) for Garhwali and Angika began during one of them. One of the meetups was a hackathon dedicated to l10n QA. Don’t hesitate to subscribe to the LibreIndia Facebook page, as each event is announced and reported there.

And there is much more to report on what’s happening this quarter, like the hackfests in Ankara (Turkey) and the LibreOffice summit in the city of Las Palmas (Spain). I’m so happy to see the local communities invested in so many LibreOffice events.

Do not forget to check regularly the LibreOffice conference site; the local Czech team is working hard already to prepare everything, and a lot of information will be added to the site in the coming days. There is also the call for papers – submit your idea before July 15th!

On the l10n activities, LibreOffice 5.1 brought a bunch of modifications and several new strings to translate. But there will be more for the next release, 5.2, where a lot of help articles have been added or updated. A new project has been added to Pootle: now there is also the LibreOffice Online project, the newborn baby who has few new strings of its own.