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I've been all this weekend on the Computer Science Department Labs as the owner of the keys. We have celebrated for the second time this year a MaratOO'o, a work meeting to fix and review the Catalan translations of OpenOffice.org. Last February we had other meeting that was devoted to translation, but this time it has been more a review thing.

The meeting has been organized by SoftcatalĂ , a non-profit organization devoted to promote the use of Catalan on the IT world. They do a lot of l10n work for a lot of Free Software projects and had developed a set of tools for translators, including a style guide, something I believe is really important and I miss from other l10n teams for other languages like Spanish.

While I don't translate (I'm very bad at it), I belong to the organization because of jordim and jcorrius, as they convinced me to help them organize the previous MaratOO'o (for this one it was jordi the one that convinced me).

I believe this second session was good, I have not seen a single .po file, but I've helped with the migration of services from the old SoftcatalĂ  to a new one. They have a lot of things configured in weird ways and the migration has not been really planned (I don't understand why some services were moved this weekend when there were 30 people using them), but probably is not strange as it seems that none of the people with admin rights on the machines has worked as sysadmin and they don't care much a about it, so things seem to be done and left alone once they work, but for a migration like the one they are doing, with a lot of program upgrades, the configuration of each service has to be reviewed or things break easily.

On the L10N front it seems that things went well, we had near 30 people translating during two days and that means that all the program localization has been reviewed and some of the help files have been translated also, so we will probably have a better Catalan langpack for OpenOffice.org soon and maybe the help files also will be available.

I was going to include a photo on this post, but jordim told me he was going to use it on his blog, so use his bandwidth if you want to see the people that was on the lab before we left (I'm not there, as I'm the one that took the photo).