+100 I like the idea of include the UDHR and the idea of a e-Rosetta. The size is not a problem, I have tried with spanish: The pdf size is 186K, the html is 38K, but we can clean it and have a html version of 14K (ziped is 5K) We can start with a content bundle (.xol)
We can do a better job with the content bundles we include. Almost all are from Wikibooks Junior http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior but we continue including the same books from may be 2007. Gonzalo On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear OLPC developers, > > I would like to propose including the United Nation's Universal > Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in the content bundles provided in > the 11.2.0 libraries. > > http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml > > It is translated into over 400 languages (found here) > > http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/SearchByLang.aspx > > Many deployments are apparently interested in English language > instruction and I believe that distributing English and local language > copies of the UDHR together not only provides an opportunity for a > "Rosetta Stone" type pairing of texts, but it might also serve as a > launching point for discussions in civics or social studies classes. > > I have sent an e-mail to the Secretary of the Publication Board, > United Nations to specifically ask about any restrictions they might > impose on electronic redistribution of the UDHR text and translations > downloaded from their site. However, given the following quote from > the UHDR website, the intended use seems entirely consistent with the > intent of the UN in publishing the UHDR. > > "On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations > adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the > full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this > historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to > publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be > disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and > other educational institutions, without distinction based on the > political status of countries or territories." > > Article 26 is of particular relevance to OLPC's efforts. > > Assuming there is consensus on pedagogical value and a clear answer on > the copyright status of the UDHR, the remaining question is how to go > about packaging this content for OLPC distributions. The material > downloads primarily as PDF files. I haven't checked them all, but > some are text selectable "composited" PDFs, some may be scanned image > PDFs, and a few are possibly available as HTML. > > I would like to do as little rework as possible on packaging these (in > part to get them ready in time for the 11.2.0 release), so I am > inclined to stick with the 8 page PDF as downloaded. One possibility > would be to include all of the languages, but this seems wasteful of > precious space. > > I am not aware of any storage structure currently available for > content management by language in the way that Pootle handles strings > and the individual languages in the /po directory in git. I'm unsure > of how this could be managed with the build process to pick up the > appropriate localized version of the UDHR. > > Let's be clear that I am not really a developer, so I would be happy > to see someone take this idea and run with it. I am more than willing > to collaborate with anyone on bringing this to fruition, but I > probably can't pull it off all by myself without some assistance (at > least advice and feedback on appropriate technical issues). > > cjl > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
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