2016-05-13 2:16 GMT+08:00 Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Sebastian Silva > <sebast...@fuentelibre.org> wrote: > > El 12/05/16 a las 10:33, Chris Leonard escribió: > >> I would note that, as requested, Edgar provided a brief write-up of > >> the event afterwards (in Spanish), > > > > Great! > > > > Please note that one of the speakers (Roger Gonzalo) is the person that > > was hired by the Ministry of Education to polish Edgar's Sugar Aymara > > translations (at the same time that Edgar was hired by Sugar Labs last > > year). > > > > Since their work conflicted, it would be interesting to hear from Edgar > > if he had a conversation about it with Roger and what conclusions / > > plans they have to resolve their conflicts with regard to Aymara > language. > > > > > > Issues of language are best to the members of language communities to > resolve amongst themselves. In the end of the day, a deploying > organization is going to be able to make the final decision about what > is deployed, as MinEdPeru did.
I agree. Still, I believe collaboration should be promoted, not competition. Hopefully they did met, shake hands and get happy about the work they end up making together. > In reviewing the number of changes > made to the existing base of Aymara translations I seem to recall > seeing something on the order of 1,000 changes, which is actually > quite small when you consider that there were 20,000 entries in the > system, representing a 5% diff in an important language where Sugar > Labs represents the only substantive L10n effort that I have seen. > Indeed. As Sebastian mentions, Roger was selected and hired by MinEdu to polish Edgar's and José Henry Alanoca's (rip) and initial work. > The work that Edgar did from the time of the Sugar Labs Lima meeting > until the MinEdPeru made a decision to hire someone to incorporate it > into a build for deployment was remarkable and an excellent investment > of Sugar Labs L10n funds. Are you making a reference to the funds invested by SL on 2011 Sugar camp Lima? or were there direct payments? > "If you build it they will come" is an > approach that may only succeed in a circumstance like Peru. I only > wish we had someone like Edgar working on Quechua (Cuzco-Collao). Let's analyse what worked for Edgar that did not work for Irma, the former Quechua team leader. > I hope to see efforts on other Peruvian languages that can make the > leap to deployment that Edgar made possible for Aymara. > cjl > We all. I would start by suggesting some basic investment into upstreamming Awajún. Best regards, Laura > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Laura V. I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org Identi.ca/Skype acaire IRC kaametza Happy Learning!
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