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 Harold Perkin Harold James Perkin (11 November 1926 – 16 October 2004) was an English social historian and founder of the "Social History Society" (1976). Perkin was born in Hanley, Staffordshire of humble origins. He attended "Hanley High School" and then obtained a scholarship to Jesus College, Cambridge from 1945, gaining a starred First Class degree in 1948. Then followed National Service in the RAF. Rejected by his Cambridge college to study for a PhD, he instead commenced extramural history teaching from 1950 with Manchester University. Perkin was successively a lecturer in social history at Manchester University, 1951–65, senior lecturer