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The Eclipse™ Babel Project Translation Server

Kit Lo

IBM™ Corporation

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Introduction - Babel Translation Server

• Wiki-like server where any Eclipse user with an Eclipse Bugzilla ID may login and help translate Eclipse

• http://babel.eclipse.org/babel/

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Introduction - Babel Nightly NL packs

• The Eclipse Babel Project produces nightly NL packs from the translations entered into the Eclipse Babel Project Translation Server

• Use this Eclipse Update Site to download the NL packs: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/babel/update-site/

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Add Existing Eclipse Projects to Babel

Eager Translators• Not all of the existing Eclipse Foundation Projects are included in

Babel yet• If Babel is missing an Eclipse project and you would like to help

translate that project, please open a bug to encourage that project to participate in Babel, letting them know that translators are out there and willing to help

Project Leads• Login to Babel Translation Server• Click “For Committers” link• Define map files for your project

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Request Additional Languages

• Babel is currently setup to translate Eclipse projects into the following languages: Arabic, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Klingon, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

• Request additional languages through Eclipse Bugzilla

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Help Wanted

• We need the community’s help to implement useful functions in Babel• To-do list

Support SVN for the maps processor Automate release cycle Add voting for a translation Add copyright notices to language packs Add initial users page with useful stats Allow hiding of translated strings Generate translated plug-ins for multiple project versions Dictionary for translating and searching of common terms Provide pseudo translation NL packs

• We need your help to make Eclipse a worldwide success! Let’s Babel!

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Demohttp://babel.eclipse.org/babel/

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Eclipse Babel Project Events at EclipseCon 2008

• Eclipse Babel Project Committers Working SessionMonday, 17:00, 1 hour | Hyatt Regency Santa Clara Lobby Lounge

• Introduction to the Eclipse Babel ProjectEmerging Technologies · Short TalkWednesday, 13:30, 10 minutes | Room 203/204

• The Eclipse Babel Project Translation ServerEmerging Technologies · Short TalkWednesday, 13:50, 10 minutes | Room 203/204

• Discussion of the Eclipse Babel ProjectEmerging Technologies · Birds Of A FeatherWednesday, 19:30, 1 hour 15 minutes | Room 206

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