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Localisation guide now available in Spanish

I just uploaded the Spanish translation of the FOSS localisation manual I wrote a while ago. Many thanks to Lucía Morado Vázquez and Silvia Rodríguez Vázquez for their work to make it happen.

It is titled "La localización al servicio de un cambio sostenible" (PDF) with subtitle "Guía de localización de software libre y de código abierto". The manual is now available in four languages (English, French, Arabic and Spanish).

I still need to find a way to publish it with the covers — we had to create the covers as separate PDF documents for the sake of our printers, and the first way I tried to combine the documents resulted in hyperlinks being lost in the resulting PDF.

Speaking of printing: we printed copies of the other three languages for our training events around Africa, but the Spanish version came later and was completely a volunteer effort separate from the activities of ANLoc. What is the best way to try to get some of these printed? I'm sure a few people would be interested in a hard copy.

Survey about the usability of Virtaal

A student at the University of Mainz in Germany, Almana Mukabenova, is doing some research on the usability of the translation tool Virtaal. She prepared a questionnaire for the purposes of her master's thesis:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NV9YFJR

I'm very interested to see what comes out of this, and want to encourage all users of Virtaal (past and present, serious and casual) to take part if they can.

Firefox (maybe) now most popular in Africa

According to Statcounter Firefox was the most popular web browser in Africa in September 2011. Here is the graph with their statistics:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-af-monthly-201109-201109-bar

It is a close call, but the trends are clear: Internet Explorer is becoming less popular, while Firefox and Chrome are still increasing in popularity and together already take up about 60%. Of course it is hard to say how accurate StatCounter's statistics are or how representative it is of reality, but it is still interesting to see.

Although Firefox's popularity isn't on the increase everywhere I believe that the release of Firefox 7 last week can sway things increasingly in Firefox's favour. Naturally the upcoming versions will bring further improvements, but the competition is unlikely to just stand by and watch.

Firefox is available in an increasing number of languages from Africa, and it may just have an increasing influence in Africa in the future.

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Lokaliseringsgids nou beskikbaar in Spaans

Ek het pas die Spaanse vertaling opgelaai van die lokaliseringsgids vir Vry Sagteware wat ek 'n rukkie terug geskryf het. Hartlike dank aan Lucía Morado Vázquez en Silvia Rodríguez Vázquez vir die moeite wat gesorg het dat hierdie die lig sien.

Die titel is "La localización al servicio de un cambio sostenible" (PDF) met subtitel "Guía de localización de software libre y de código abierto". Die gids is nou beskikbaar in vier tale (Engels, Frans, Arabies en Spaans).

Vraelys oor die bruikbaarheid van Virtaal

'n Student aan die Universiteit van Mainz in Duitsland, Almana Mukabenova, doen tans navorsing oor die bruikbaarheid van die vertaalprogram Virtaal. Sy het 'n vraelys opgestel vir die doeleindes van haar meestersgraad:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NV9YFJR

Ek is baie nuuskierig om te sien wat hieruit voortkom, en wil alle gebruikers van Virtaal (van nou of vroeër, terloops en ernstig) om deel te neem as hulle kan.

Firefox (dalk) nou gewildste in Afrika

Volgens Statcounter was Firefox die gewildste webblaaier in Afrika in September 2011. Hier is die grafiek met hulle statistiek:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-af-monthly-201109-201109-bar

Dit is ook maar net-net, maar die tendense is duidelik: Internet Explorer neem af in gewildheid, terwyl Firefox en Chrome steeds toeneem in gewildheid en saam nou al amper op 60% staan. Natuurlik is dit moeilik om te sê hoe akkuraat StatCounter se statistiek is of hoe verteenwoordigend dit is van die werklikheid, maar dit is steeds interessant om te sien.

Alhoewel Firefox se gewildheid nie oral styg nie, glo ek dat Firefox 7 wat laas week vrygestel is dinge toenemend in Firefox se guns kan laat swaai. Die komende weergawes sal natuurlik nog verdere verbeteringe bring, maar die kompetisie sal seker nie net staan en toekyk nie.

Firefox is beskikbaar in al hoe meer tale van Afrika, en dit mag dalk net toenemend 'n invloed hê in Afrika in die toekoms.