There seem to be a few projects around to apply crowdsourcing techniques to translation; I wonder if any of these platforms are open to OKfn collaboration, or if this would make sense as a way to optimize resources...
One example is MonoTrans: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/monotrans/ (By the way hello all, and thanks to Sam for pointing me to the -discuss list. Just starting out in involvement w/OKfn, but excited!) - Heath On Thursday, March 14, 2013, Christian Villum wrote: > > Message: 1 >> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:01:14 +0000 (GMT) >> From: Mohammed Saleh <[email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >> '[email protected]');>> >> Subject: [okfn-discuss] Translating into Arabic >> To: "[email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >> '[email protected]');>" >> <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >> '[email protected]');> >> > >> Message-ID: >> >> <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, >> 'cvml', >> '[email protected]');>> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> Dear All >> ? >> ??? I wonder if any one here who speaks Arabic and would like to >> translate the OFKN >> ?? into Arabic ? >> ? >> ? >> Regards >> ? >> Mohammed Hashim > > > Hi Mohammed, > > Thanks for the suggestion. I am not sure if you mean translating the > website or something else? > At present we do not really have the resources to do that, but if you > would be up for taking part in such a thing maybe we could helt find more > collaborators. Either here on the list or in our other networks. > > Are you engaged with open data/open knowledge/open anything in your > country or region? Or would like to? Feel free to get in touch, we'd love > to have more dedicated people in the network from the Arab world. Maybe > even as an Ambassador? We've recently launched an online application for > anyone interested in that - see http://okfn.org/local. > > -Christian > > -- > Christian Vilum | @villum <http://www.twitter.com/villum> > *Community manager, Open Government Data (OGD)* > *Community manager, Local Groups network (LG)* > > Open Knowledge Foundation <http://www.okfn.org/> | > @okfn<http://www.twitter.com/okfn> > *Building the digital commons** - support our work: okfn.org/support* > >
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