Rosetta is a web-based platform that does exactly what I thought needed to be done: it makes open source software translation really easy for lots of people, and it makes it easy to collaborate on a translation project.
Instead of having to edit .po files manually, this web interface allows you to easily just … [...]

I had the pleasure of spending this weekend with Ndesanjo Macha (English Blog/Kiswahili Blog/Profile at Global Voices) in Greensboro, N.C., about an hour from my house in the woods near Pittsboro. We´re working together on a Kiswahili translation of WordPress, the excellent open source platform for this website.
We are fortunate to have the aid [...]

I’ve just been getting into a magazine called “Developments: The International Development Magazine.” It features respectable journalists writing informed pieces about new issues in international development. The most recent issue is a great bit about Open Source Software and the impact of free programs in the developing world.
I appreciate the E.M. Forester reference in [...]