translate.org.za makes Google Summer of Code, is hiring

18 Mar 2008

One of my favourite South African open source enterprises is translate.org.za - which, amongst other great things, is behind two good pieces of (Python) software - Translate Toolkit (a library of converters between different translation formats) and Pootle (a web app for people to do translations through).

Those two pieces of software are potential targets for those entering Google Summer of Code 2008 - they're one of 175 organisations/projects chosen out of 500 applications.  And looking at the high-quality project ideas page they put together, you can see why their application was successful.

The translate.org.za people are also looking to hire a Python developer in Pretoria - I doubt there are all that many opportunities to work full-time on an open source project in South Africa (let alone in Python), so hopefully they'll find a good match.

This makes South Africa being represented as both student and mentoring organisation in Google Summer of Code (and, I'm guessing, there'll be a mentor from translate.org.za this year too), as well as a finalist in the Google Highly Open Participation Contest all in the past year and a bit...

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  1. Neil Blakey-Milner — March 18, 2008 at 10:29 PM.

    Tectonic [tectonic.co.za] also has coverage [tectonic.co.za]

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