Softver Otvorenog Koda na Srpskom

Or, put another way:

The Serbian Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society organized the localization of several popular open source packages.

The Linux operating system, OpenOffice package, the Mozilla Firefox internet browser and Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client are among these software packages. The localization task was given to the experts from Belgrade University’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering, the Faculty of Organization Sciences and the Faculty of Mathematics, and the School of Electrical Engineering in Nish.

Currently, the two Linux versions – Ubuntu and Fedora are being localized whereas the first versions of these programs in Serbian will be available for use starting from March, 2008.

The public bid for localization of other important open-source software packages is announced for the beginning of 2009.

All very good news. (Via Free Software Daily.)

Facebook Does Collaborative Localisations

A novel approach to localisation:

They are picking and choosing markets (Spanish was opened first, two weeks ago; today German and French were launched) and asking just a few users to test out their collaborative translation tool. Once the tool is perfected and enough content has been translated, Facebook will offer users the ability to quickly switch the language on the site, per their preference.

Not hard to see this becoming more common.