Hi Nicolas, Yes it needs to be discussed, but if someone could translate the export tool into French in the next couple weeks that would be very helpful for some short-term goals.
You also forget in your list Indonesia when you mention non-English speaking countries. HOT-Indonesia does a lot of work in a non-English speaking and non-UN language so we certainly have some methods we have been doing for a while. For example we have Indonesia only Facebook groups and Twitter accounts. There is also a website available in English and Indonesian. It is probably time for HOT to have a Facebook and Twitter account that are French only. Also web presence can be set-up for specific countries with languages related to those places. I obviously can do nothing to facilitate that, but we can look towards other multilingual groups and what they do. -Kate On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 9:38 PM, nicolas chavent <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kate and Heather > > This is a huge need and a key condition if we want to foster our impact in > non English speaking countries: Haiti, Sen, Chad, Burundi, CAR, Togo, surely > Burkina show how hard it is for people to make the best use of our English > based materials, tools, blog posts, tweets, FB posts and reports. > > Might be good to set up a hot chat on this topic and looks at platform to > support this, as well as partners and communities likely to have an interest > helping HOT in this area; for French and African languages we can get > support by Direction de la Francophonie Numérique from Organisation > Internationale de la Francophonie: I'll have a call in the next days to have > the latest update on budget elements + implementation conditions for this > support to happen. I'll get back on list then. > > Nicolas > > > On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Heather Leson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> HI Kate, I've been talking with Translators without Borders. They have a >> Translation community which will help on the Euro languages. But, the >> translation method below may not be accessible to non-techie helpers. >> >> For those who already do translations, do you find this method easy to >> use? How can we improve. >> >> Some options - if there are a large number of translations that HOT needs, >> maybe we could start using Transifex to build our language community >> supporters? (We've doubled our translation at Ushahidi by moving to >> Transifex.) (free for groups like us) >> >> Heather >> >> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Kate Chapman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Shortly there will be multilingual support for the HOT Export. >>> Currently available are English and German. The structure is there for >>> French to be added. Would someone have the time to translate this into >>> French? >>> >>> Hopefully the process is pretty self explanatory. >>> >>> https://github.com/hotosm/hot-exports/tree/master/webinterface/config/locales >>> >>> If someone else wants it in another language just clone the repo then. >>> You need to copy the yml and add the two letter code for your language >>> to them. Next do a pull request. >>> >>> -Kate >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> HOT mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Heather Leson >> Director of Community Engagement >> Ushahidi >> [email protected] >> www.ushahidi.com and https://wiki.ushahidi.com >> @heatherleson / skype: heatherleson >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > > > > -- > Nicolas Chavent > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team > http://hot.openstreetmap.org/ > Mobile (FRA): +33 (0)6 52 40 78 20 > Email: [email protected] > Email: [email protected] > Skype: c_nicolas > Twitter: nicolas_chavent _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
