[Xerte] Re: Language

[Julian Tenney]

Anything useful...

We ought to have a list of goals / tasks / owners and someone to manage progress etc... and some means of facilitating the work (the google code site?)

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 10 May 2011 06:46
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Language

Pat, I can guarantee a Dutch and a Norwegian translation of your work... :-)

Not sure what you want me to do Julian, but yes, count me in....

Op 9-5-2011 23:51, Pat Lockley schreef:
> On 09/05/2011 22:34, Julian Tenney wrote:
>> I was thinking earlier - it is simple enough to make the tempaltes 
>> multi lingual with lanaguages we store in the back end, but changing 
>> them to handle the author adding different languages is another thing 
>> entirely: how would the wizard work? There's a lot more work if the 
>> author can create multi language quizzes themselves.
>>
>> So the wizard needs some sort of language selctor, so that the wizard 
>> writes to the right language nodes in the xml. That would entail 
>> major archtectural changes, as the nodes are instantiated with a  lot 
>> of the text nodes / attributes in them: the wizard then edits them. 
>> Need to think about that more.
>>
>> I think the priorities are
>>
>> i) the toolkits application itself. So it can be installed and 
>> configured to a  locale.
>> i) equal first, but maybe later, are the templates  as we discussed, 
>> for end users ( with a long term goal of multi language support for 
>> authors who want to author in more than one language. That has 
>> interseting connotations for oer, where an author may not be the 
>> first author, but can easily translate the content).
>> i) any engine changes to support those things ( i.e. a language 
>> neutral interface, with configurable language elements for things 
>> where text is required (i.e. the items on the accessibility menus).
>>
>> I put my hand up for the third task, loading text from language xml 
>> files for the xerte default interface, and managing all that into the 
>> runtime. I'm putting Pats hand up for leading on the first task, I'm 
>> thinking Jonathan can do the second one, and Tom can write a plan and 
>> keeep us all in line. Other roles to be defined...
>>
>> Alistair and I had some thoughts about a developer nonference here at 
>> Nottingham sometime, maybe late September: that could be a useful 
>> event, which we are hoping might prove a catalyst in developing the 
>> open source commnity around the Xerte Project. This would be topical. 
>> At the very least we can provide a venue for a couple of days.
>>
>> If enough hands go up, we can start the ball rolling?
>>
>> Do we want a 'Xerte Developers' list?
> I think a Xerte techie list (for the website) would be good.
>
> I am not sure i want to lead - as a I worry i'll do a tonne of work 
> and no one will translate it. And i don't mind coding, but you know, 
> i'd sooner not have to learn french.
>
> A nonference sounds a plan - but how many of us would be UK?
>
> Pat
>
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