Just an update: Apparently I can directly create CLDR survey tool accounts for GNOME people directly. I will be checking my email over the weekend too, so feel free to send me the account requests over the weekend, or any time.
I will try to document the whole process on live.gnome.org. Roozbeh On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Roozbeh Pournader <rooz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Unicode CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) version 1.7 is going > through its latest phases of vetting. The GNOME Foundation is a > liaison member of the Unicode Consortium, and we can vote on > individual locale data entries to be published in the next version of > CLDR. > > There are plans to expose CLDR data through GNOME, and push > applications to use the locale data available in CLDR, instead of the > one in glibc. This would help various applications provide better > sorting, better date and time formats, etc. > > More information about Unicode CLDR is available here: > http://cldr.unicode.org/ > > The present vetting phase ends in just four days, so it's a bit late > in the process to do that. But I believe it's better to get the > accounts while we can participate immediately, instead of later when > there is no action going on. > > If you are interested in helping improve CLDR data for your language, > please contact the coordinator for your language. > > If you are the coordinator, and your community is interested to > participate in CLDR, please send me the contact information for one > vetter per language: name, email address, locale name, CLDR locale > code. (This can be the coordinator himself/herself, of course, and we > can always change things later). > > The vetting process is explained here: > http://cldr.unicode.org/index/survey-tool/vetting > > The CLDR process (including how votes are counted) is explained here: > http://cldr.unicode.org/index/process > > If you are interested in doing this for CLDR 1.7, please send me the > contact information for your language CLDR contact *as soon as > possible*. I plan to send the first list of names, accounts, and > languages in 24 hours. (Disclaimer: I can't promise Unicode staff will > be able to give us the accounts in time.) > > But don't worry if you couldn't make that deadline. I don't think we > will be using CLDR 1.7 data in GNOME, and there is plenty of time for > next release. Just send me the information when you decided who will > be doing the CLDR work for your language. The 24-hour deadline is for > people who have the time this weekend and are interested in playing > with the CLDR survey tool *now*. > > Legal note: The CLDR data is licensed under a variety of the MIT > license. This means that while we can use the CLDR data in GNOME's > LGPL and GPL-licensed project code and data, we cannot simply take > GNOME's copylefted data and put it back in CLDR without permission > from all the translators of that data. So, be careful with copying and > pasting. > > Roozbeh > _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
