Maybe we can prepare the slides in English and doing the presentation in Chinese. I think most Chinese developer audiences have the reading skill of English, and we don't need to do lot of translation work on the slides side.
Willem Jiang Twitter: willemjiang Weibo: 姜宁willem On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 7:32 AM Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think this may be worth a discussion here. I am totally in favor of being > more inclusive by having presentations about Apache in multiple languages. > > There have been many presentations to non-English-native-listeners about > Apache topics. > > I am a small bit concerned that translations of presentations might not fully > capture the content of the original. Seeing a presentation in English by an > English speaker and seeing the translated presentation in e.g. Chinese by a > Chinese speaker is possibly not a good way to verify that the message was > completely translated. > > Would it be too much to ask for such presentations to include on each slide > both the English and Chinese? I understand that there are challenges with > this approach but it would perhaps make it easier to verify that the > translation is topic-by-topic. It might also make "the same talk in two > recordings" easier to implement. > > Regards, > Craig > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > From: Julian Feinauer <j.feina...@pragmaticminds.de> > > Subject: Multilangual Content > > Date: May 29, 2020 at 4:10:04 AM PDT > > To: "plann...@apachecon.com" <plann...@apachecon.com> > > Reply-To: plann...@apachecon.com > > > > Hi all, > > > > I considered organizing a Track for the IoTDB project. This project is > > (like others also) with strong community in China. And we are „bilateral“ > > in the project as we try to provide enough information in both languages > > that also the not-so-fluent english speaking Chinese Community can follow. > > > > Would it be possible to have presentations / videos in other Languages? Or > > probably the same talk in two recordings? > > Are there general objections with the idea? I think this could be really > > cool for projects like IoTDB to reach the Chinese Community. > > > > Julian > > Craig L Russell > c...@apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
