On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Marc A. Volovic wrote: > Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:33:11 +0200 > From: Marc A. Volovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Lior Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Ha'makor Discussions list <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Translation Marathon > > Quoth Lior Kaplan: > > > I thought of have an event for a translation marathon (tras-athon ?! ). > > I'd like to estimate how many people are interested to participate in > > such an event. > > Translation of what? From which language to which language? Technical? > Literary? Into/from Hebrew? What about Gujarati? I rather like Anglo-Saxon > as some of you may know ;-)... > > Ic nylle aerest ac leof aelmihtig > Mid corthore and cyne to colpytte gecumon
Marc, you can begin by translating these lines :) Seriously now, Lior wants to suggest a budget proposal. For that we need to estimate the cost of such an event, for this we need to estimate the number of volunteers that will agree/want to take part in such an event. The point is to translate FOSS which needs translation to Hebrew, mainly educational FOSS. This is a work that most Israelies can do, no need to learn how to program. And it will give a boost to FOSS in education, because those who wish to install FOSS for students and kindergarten children will have proper software to install. We know we cannot pay people - we do not have the amounts of money, and we are prohibited by the bylaws. But we certainly can sponsor a translation event, where volunteers will not get paid, but at least they will get fed: a simbolic token of esteem to encourage people to volunteer. Orna. -- Orna Agmon http://ladypine.org/ http://haifux.org/~ladypine/ ICQ: 348759096 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
