Kiswahili dictionary created at Africa Source

19 Mar 2004

Can honestly say Africa Source has not been a talk shop. If anything, localisation and translation has been a well-covered and well-received topic, and Dwayne Bailey from Translate.org.za has been working overtime. Inspired by Dwayne's talks, Jason Githeko approached Dwayne, and they have produced a Kiswahili dictionary during the conference. Nice quote from Jason: ``I have been working on this project for more than five years. And in the end creating the spellchecker took only a day''. Just by bringing people like Dwayne and Jason together for a few days has produced something that may have never happened otherwise. Great stuff.

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Hi, I'm Neil Blakey-Milner, a technology generalist most interested by open source, security, and building scalable systems (especially if I get to use the Python programming language).

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