1. Copyright © IBM Corp., 2008. The Eclipse™ Babel Project Translation Server Kit Lo IBM™ Corporation

2. Copyright © IBM Corp., 2008. 2 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/

3. Copyright © IBM Corp., 2008. 3 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/ http://download.eclipse.org/technology/babel/update-site/

4. Copyright © IBM Corp., 2008. 4 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

5. Copyright © IBM Corp., 2008. 5 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

6. Copyright © IBM Corp., 2008. 6 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!

7. Copyright © IBM Corp., 2008. 7 Demo http://babel.eclipse.org/babel/

8. Copyright © IBM Corp., 2008. 8 Eclipse Babel Project Events at EclipseCon 2008 Eclipse Babel Project Committers Working Session Monday, 17:00, 1 hour | Hyatt Regency Santa Clara Lobby Lounge Introduction to the Eclipse Babel Project Emerging Technologies · Short Talk Wednesday, 13:30, 10 minutes | Room 203/204 The Eclipse Babel Project Translation Server Emerging Technologies · Short Talk Wednesday, 13:50, 10 minutes | Room 203/204 Discussion of the Eclipse Babel Project Emerging Technologies · Birds Of A Feather Wednesday, 19:30, 1 hour 15 minutes | Room 206

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