Tools brainstorm

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Needs and Quick Wins


  • Lack of integration/interoperability between tools
    • Different areas have their own tools, but it's difficult for a project to use them all
  • Style guide for each language
  • Project Mgmt / workflow tools
  • Better use of standards for storing translations within projects
    • po-files and compatible files
    • reason: many apps don't allow easy export into po or po-convertible formats.
  • Better integration between different projects,
    • shared TM
    • shared glossaries
    • common ui's and systems
  • In-line tranlations in graphics, i.e tools for showing svg's that allows in-line translation and saving as po-files
    • built into GLADE or other ui designers
  • Lack of visibility of existing tools
    • possibly a best-practice guide segmented on roles
  • Open content projects
  • new free software tools
  • web site projects
  • dimitris, dwayne, danilo potential collaboration
    • Create a generic model that describes what a translatable project is, describe roles in such a project, and share these models, and interoperate.
  • Using each others tools, integration
  • Brian can improve his own product by adding po support into that, alowing the use of other tools
  • defining standards that are lowest common denominator
    • po for text strings
    • web service standards/convention for REST interface ???
    • RSS for moving data between systems
  • open-tran.eu
  • common API's for TM tools to contect and collect translation memories
  • Integration of transifex, damn lies, and pootle
  • plugins for CMS's to export content into po-files
    • possible bounties or looking for funding as a group
    • possible generic code libraries
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