I meant to type "Issues of language are best left to the members of language communities to resolve amongst themselves."
cjl On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Sebastian Silva > <sebast...@fuentelibre.org> wrote: >> El 12/05/16 a las 10:33, Chris Leonard escribió: >>> I would note that, as requested, Edgar provided a brief write-up of >>> the event afterwards (in Spanish), >> >> Great! >> >> Please note that one of the speakers (Roger Gonzalo) is the person that >> was hired by the Ministry of Education to polish Edgar's Sugar Aymara >> translations (at the same time that Edgar was hired by Sugar Labs last >> year). >> >> Since their work conflicted, it would be interesting to hear from Edgar >> if he had a conversation about it with Roger and what conclusions / >> plans they have to resolve their conflicts with regard to Aymara language. >> >> > > Issues of language are best to the members of language communities to > resolve amongst themselves. In the end of the day, a deploying > organization is going to be able to make the final decision about what > is deployed, as MinEdPeru did. In reviewing the number of changes > made to the existing base of Aymara translations I seem to recall > seeing something on the order of 1,000 changes, which is actually > quite small when you consider that there were 20,000 entries in the > system, representing a 5% diff in an important language where Sugar > Labs represents the only substantive L10n effort that I have seen. > The work that Edgar did from the time of the Sugar Labs Lima meeting > until the MinEdPeru made a decision to hire someone to incorporate it > into a build for deployment was remarkable and an excellent investment > of Sugar Labs L10n funds. "If you build it they will come" is an > approach that may only succeed in a circumstance like Peru. I only > wish we had someone like Edgar working on Quechua (Cuzco-Collao). > > I hope to see efforts on other Peruvian languages that can make the > leap to deployment that Edgar made possible for Aymara. > > cjl _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel