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Revision as of 13:36, 25 March 2023

Google Summer of Code 2023 proposal draft

Contact

Background

  • I am a freshman computer science student at Ain Shams University in Egypt.
  • Native Language: Arabic
  • Second Language: English

Skills

  • C++
  • Linux Basics
  • Git

Why am i interested in Apertium?

  • I found that Apertium is a suitable place to learn about how open source projects operate and how can i take part in.
  • It has an interesting and active community.

Proposal: Internationalization of Apertium Tools

Apertium tools are currently hard-coded as english-only.

This project aims to internationalize them so that they can be localized easily to other languages.

Tools that will be internationalized:-

Each error and warning message will have a wiki page and unique ID for easy search online.

The ID format will be something like this: AP000000


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Why should Google and Apertium sponser it?

  • The internationalization of the tools makes it easier for non-english users to use it.

how and who it will benefit in society?

  • It will make the use of Apertium tools easier for non-english users.

Coding Challenge

  • I have done the coding challenge related to this project and its code can be found here.
  • I have also written a program that enables to internationalize shell scripts and sent a pull request to the lttoolbox repo with the program integrated (can be found here).

Work Plan

Time Period Goal Deliverable
Community Bonding Period

May 4-28

Discuss and define more details about the project and initialize it.
May 29 - June 26 Internationalize lttoolbox PR on lttoolbox repository
June 27 - July 10 Internationalize apertium PR on apertium repository
midterm evaluation lttoolbox and apertium internationalized
July 11 - 24 Internationalize remaining tools PRs on apertium-separable, apertium-anaphora, apertium-recursive, lexd, and apertium-lex-tools
July 25 - August 21 Unknown
final evaluation Project done

Time Commitments

  • I will have final exams in June so i will assign 10 hours a week for the project until i finish my exams.
  • I don't have time commitments in the coding period after final exams.