Cherasco and Bamberg

This year we had a wonderful meet-up in Cherasco. Many things went very different from what was planned ... but well, that's ok because in the end what came out of many unforeseen things is great. I'll write about it as soon as I am back to normal.

For now we can announce the next conference for 2 and 3 May 2009 in Bamberg, Germany and I am really happy to do that since I will be near the place where I was born (Rodach).

Again Anaphraseus: new features :-)

Well I just copy and paste:

2008-04-11 13:03 [1.17b] ole_yansen

* Export/Import Translation Memory Exchange files (TMX)

* Inverce Source/Target language feature

* Unicode UTF16 support for glossary files

* Progressbar for saving/loading operations

* Minor bugs fixed

One step nearer to OmegaWiki 2.0

So now we are one step nearer to OmegaWiki 2.0 - At 8:43 UTC I received this note: "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!!! I FINISHED IT!!!!!!! for the first time in history there is a database owm2, it's empty, but it is there".

So here we are ... a great mile stone (oh I know, I will get a nice message that I am exaggerating ... I'll answer that I am not) ... it's time to consider the days of OmegaWiki 1.0 as counted ;-) Hmmm ... that needs something special ... what about a nice glass of ... whatever you prefer?

Finally a CAT-Tool with ISO 639-3 support

Many of you know for how long I have been asking for a CAT-Tool that supports ISO 639-3 codes, well, now we have one and it has been added to our potential partner projects: Anaphraseus.

A more detailed description is going to be published on my blog where it has more exposure to the translator's community a bit later on.

Yellow Pages of websites in less resourced languages

From today also the Neapolitan version of I-iter has a Yellow Pages section, built in a similar way like the one that has been already online on the Piemontese I-iter portal.

Please feel free to add your link to a website with Neapolitan contents on nap.i-iter.org and of course you may also add to the Piemontese Yellow Pages, provided that the page you insert has contents in the language.

Please keep in mind that here we don't talk about business Yellow Pages, but about all websites that have contents in that languages, such as the Neapolitan and the Piemontese wikipedias.

If you would like to create such Yellow Pages for another less resourced language: well, it's not a problem, just contact us and we can help you to get your community project with I-iter going.

Catalan started on i-iter.org

Well, we are growing :-) Today the Catalan version on i-iter.org was started and actually the user interface is being localized. So now there are three portals for less resourced languages: Catalan, Neapolitan and Piedmontese (in alphabetical order).

Sustainability .....

One thing that just became clear to me is that we don't have a choice when it comes to sustainable development and which products to support, but to support only certified biological products whenever applicable. I just thought about that wine producer in Tramonti who has one of the rarest wines around, made from vines that are partly older than 100 years, that need to be treated biologically since otherwise this very particular and rare original wine would be condemned to die out ... and I watched a very interesting service by Spiegel TV (Germany). Only the original ways of production will lead to origial and therefore sustainable products.