Think Global, Make Locales!

After a long time I have some news for the WTS.
The next WTS will have a version control system.

Because I know that you’re curious here are some screenshots from the new system:

Young Japanese University student I’m Kenji Inoue aka deq, 22 years old guy living in Osaka, Japan. I study at Osaka Institute of Technology majoring computer science (pursuing M.S.).

As a localization/translation assistant My late activities focus on software localization, translation and documentation. Four years ago I co-founded a successful project called perldocjp which gathers and hosts Japanese translations of Perl-related documentations and, some days ago, June 12th, 2006, I just organized an event called Perl Transfest, where people got together and just translated documentations related Perl language. I contacted a person who is a contributor of OmegaT, an open-source translation memory tool, to make a speech to introduce a CAT (computer assisted translation) tool to the community. Using these CAT tools so far at experimental stage for developers and localizers but I hope they settle for us and improve actual efficiency of localization and translation. We, open-source software communities, always lack manpowers, aren’t we? We anyway need to solve them, sometimes by technology, and I would like to support it.

Ah, being a WTS developer, I ought to have to explain my programming skills. I love programming since I was nine or ten. Like an average computer nerd, at that age I loved to write recursive functions in Basic where the old school goto statement governed, the world before Dijkstra lit up. As a typical Internet kid, after I just entered into a high school, reading RFCs and reverse engineering softwares I loved to write IRC bots in Perl to protect our IRC channels fighting against Eastern Europe or Middle East teenagers. And, yes, I haven’t made anything really important to show you to flatter myself, like an ordinary Slashdot user. Uhmmm, well, at least I am proofed that I’m smart enough to create a half-borrowed-from-other-extension-source-codes extension called PageZoom and that’s all.

Guitars My sole hobby (except computer and programming, of course) is to play acoustic guitar solo. It contains dynamics, statics, passion, hope, happiness, sadness and every little thing whole in one instrument. I’m just knocked over.

Kenji

A Life for programming

My name is Davide aka dafi, I live in South Italy, I’m a 36 years old and I can’t imagine my life without programming!
I program anything, washing machines, videorecorders and … computers.
At ten years old I had my first computer the Sinclair ZX80 with one kilobyte of RAM!!
I had been so stupid to sell it to buy a Commodore 64.
I was falling in love for Commodore Amiga and I loved to program using assembly on Motorola 68000 series processors.
I’m an open source evangelist and my idol is Richard Stallman. Now I work as senior Java programmer and technical coordinator, and I’m also a volunteer at Mozilla Foundation as extension reviewer.
I’ve discovered BabelZilla project and I’m currently sharing my works with BZ team as new WTS Developer.

Spending free time

Mainly I pass my free time to learn new programming languages and share my little know-how with other people.
I love books and movies; my preferred books are Being Digital and Flatland, my preferred movies are Bladerunner and Tron and obviously Matrix 1.
And last but not least, I’m waiting for the woman of my life! She is a bit in later but I can wait some other time.

Davide