• Frequently Used Entries for Localization (FUEL)

    July 21st, 2008 by seth bindernagel with 3 comments »

    Rajesh Ranjan is one of our lead localizers in India.  Aside from working to complete the Hindi translation of Firefox, Rajesh does a lot of community organizing and outreach to open source enthusiasts around localization efforts.

    He recently held a workshop to disuss a new effort called FUEL:  Frequently Used Entries for Localization.  Rajesh describes FUEL in a blog post with the following:

    “…all major desktop related entries [needing localization] appearing on menus and sub-menus are not more than five-six hundred. So if we move to standardize a mere 500-600 entries and the process is backed by the active localizers and entities who get benefit from localization then we can make a successful move against the problem of standardization and inconsistency in software translation. This is the main idea behind FUEL.”

    To learn more about FUEL, please read this post by Rajesh.  And, here is one more link about FUEL.