Rajesh Ranjan, a language enthusiast - a social entrepreneur who loves to contribute in the FOSS world. He loves the way open source works. He likes the word 'community'. He respects voluntarism. He is associated with multiple projects and contribute mostly related to language computing. Also, he is a trained journalist and professional localizer.Currently, Rajesh Ranjan is working as Open Source Community Manager, NeGD. He worked as language maintainer for Hindi at Red Hat. He is the founder and coordinator of the FUEL Project. He has worked with several localization projects, including those with Fedora, GNOME, LibreOffice.Org, Mozilla, KDE, and Pidgin, to name a few. In addition to Hindi, he worked for the localization of the Maithili language. Before joining Red Hat, he worked as a journalist with The Indian Express Group and Literate World, Inc.The opinions expressed on this website are mine, the opinion is not of my employer. I write here as a community member of different foss project.
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Thanks leslie!
Every two weeks, One language dies, c.3000 languages will die in 100 next years! The data is painful! The reason for dying a language can be anything. If there is just one-two people, then just an influenza can be a cause also!
Whatever reason you name but at the end "clay is cold and hard and silent" for us, no response. eg. Linear_A and Harappan Script we cannot decipher now so now we will be deprived forever what treasure are inside these languages.
Thanks Shane for the query. Thanks Ankit for answering the query. As Ankit, one of the very core developer of fuel project said, Context is one of the core part while working on developing the terminology. You can see the three modules in which context are mentioned specially for all the entries: https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/fuel.git/tree/language/en/terminology/desktop/fuel-desktop-en.pot
Apart from context, we work with the community of linguists, translators etc along with participant organizations to develop 'consensus' on the target text. This worked.