Locales for African languages

[Martin Benjamin]

The African Network for Localization is looking for volunteers to give
about 2 hours to creating computer locales for many of the languages
of Africa. A locale is the basic instruction set needed to start
developing IT applications in a language. The 100 African Locales
Initiative is described in detail at http://www.it46.se/afrigen

People interested in volunteering should please contact locales at
africanlocalization dot net. The address is also shown on the website
above.

Please forward this announcement throughout your personal and
professional networks - the more widely this call is circulated, the
more chances we have to find people with the necessary combination of
computer skills, language knowledge, and web access.

The primary candidate languages are shown at
http://www.it46.se/afrigen/statistics.php?order=country_name

If you would like to work on a different language, we can probably add
it to the project. Just send an email to the address above.

Several languages have already been completed:
http://www.africanlocalization.net/release-13-african-locales

(Feel free to scream about the "correct" name for each language. The
names listed above come from Ethnologue, but most languages have
multiple names and spellings. The person who actually volunteers and
completes the work for the language will usually be the one who has
the last word.)

(And to answer the most common question in advance, yes, volunteer
means for free - for your language, for your country, but not for
money.)

The project really only takes a couple of hours per language, and once
a
language is complete it will be in the system forever. Please
volunteer, or help us find people who can!

Thanks in advance for volunteering and/or distributing this message,
Martin Benjamin
kamusi.org