Pootle programme. Its first official release was made in December 2004 although it had been used in various internal Translate@thons by Translate.org.za. The name Pootle is an acronym for "PO-based Online Translation / Localization Engine", but it is also a character in the BBC children's program The Flumps. Translate.org.za released various versions and in 2006 Pootle was further developed as part of the WordForge project, a project funded by the Open Society Institute and the International Development Research Centre. This added XLIFF file management and infrastructure for translation workflow. Many of these features were added in the 1.0 release. Pootle is
Harold Perkin in social history at Lancaster University, 1965–67, professor there 1967–84, director of the Centre for Social History 1974–84, and emeritus professor of history, Northwestern University, Illinois 1985–97. In addition, he had a visiting professorship at Rice University, founded and chaired the Social History Society, and served as chief salary negotiator for the Association of University Teachers, of which he was later president. Perkin was a distinguished, pioneering social historian. Television shows for Granada TV Both were later issued in book form. Harold Perkin Harold James Perkin (11 November 1926 – 16 October 2004) was an English social historian and founder