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Tectonic: Changing the world, one word at a time |
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10 March 2006: Head of Translate.org.za, Dwayne Bailey, called on civil society to help localise software, and push proprietary firms to do likewise, at the Sangonet "ICTs for Civil Society" conference in Johannesburg this week.
Translate.org.za recently completed translating OpenOffice.org 2.0 into South Africa's eleven official languages – a major achievement that Bailey believes is prompting proprietary firms like Microsoft to look more closely at the needs of non-English speakers. "I do believe that helped stimulate the proprietary industry to start localising their software," he says. |
