To help the work of translators, I have developed Biblos Interface Editor, a support tool that serves to:
1. translate the user interface;
2. translating online help;
3. translate Unicode characters, those useful for the target language;
4. Add or edit transliterations;
5. Translate StatusBars, ToolBars and ListMarkers.

Biblos Interface Editor is indispensable to synchronize my development work with your translation work, as it allows you to easily detect new additions or changes to the source interface.
The translation work is not immediate, several hours/days of work are required. I do not give time limits to people who work with me, because they do so voluntarily. So if you decide to translate Biblos you have plenty of time to do it, for example when you are free from other commitments.
The most important thing to translate is the user interface and, for those who use screen readers, the most used unicode characters of your language.
The source language is Italian. I always ask my collaborators to make an effort to translate from Italian, using the help I have included in Biblos Interface Editor. You can also use the English interface moderately.
If you want to be the translator of Biblos for your language, I ask you to support the translation also in the future, keeping in touch with me and the evolutions of the software. Every now and then I add some new text and so a constant contact is indispensable to synchronize the interfaces.
To keep in touch there is also the Facebook group, where I invite you to sign up.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/BiblosBraille
http://m.facebook.com/groups/BiblosBraille

With the collaborators on the translation of Biblos, the easiest way to share our work was to create a shared folder on Dropbox. So with each of them we share a folder, where I entered the software and data needed to get started.

Biblos is a free software, as you can see. I'd like to be able to pay my employees back for their work, but I don't have enough money to do it. What I suggest to my staff is that if they get to know Biblos, they can organise training courses in their own country to learn about the software. Biblos is a very extensive software that is used to do word processing, create audio books, print in Braille, create tactile graphics and images. In Italy it is used by many students and their teachers. Some organization organise training courses in which they spend many hours teaching how to use Biblos.

The difficult thing at the beginning is to translate everything. It is very easy to keep your translation up to date later on.

Giuseppe Di Grande