+100 <br><br>I like the idea of include the UDHR and the idea of a e-Rosetta.<br>The size is not a problem, I have tried with spanish:<br>The pdf size is 186K, the html is 38K, but we can clean it and have a html version of 14K (ziped is 5K)<br>
We can start with a content bundle (.xol)<br><br>We can do a better job with the content bundles we include. <br>Almost all are from Wikibooks Junior <a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior">http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior</a><br>
but we continue including the same books from may be 2007.<br><br>Gonzalo<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Chris Leonard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com">cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Dear OLPC developers,<br>
<br>
I would like to propose including the United Nation's Universal<br>
Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in the content bundles provided in<br>
the 11.2.0 libraries.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml</a><br>
<br>
It is translated into over 400 languages (found here)<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/SearchByLang.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/SearchByLang.aspx</a><br>
<br>
Many deployments are apparently interested in English language<br>
instruction and I believe that distributing English and local language<br>
copies of the UDHR together not only provides an opportunity for a<br>
"Rosetta Stone" type pairing of texts, but it might also serve as a<br>
launching point for discussions in civics or social studies classes.<br>
<br>
I have sent an e-mail to the Secretary of the Publication Board,<br>
United Nations to specifically ask about any restrictions they might<br>
impose on electronic redistribution of the UDHR text and translations<br>
downloaded from their site. However, given the following quote from<br>
the UHDR website, the intended use seems entirely consistent with the<br>
intent of the UN in publishing the UHDR.<br>
<br>
"On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations<br>
adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the<br>
full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this<br>
historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to<br>
publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be<br>
disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and<br>
other educational institutions, without distinction based on the<br>
political status of countries or territories."<br>
<br>
Article 26 is of particular relevance to OLPC's efforts.<br>
<br>
Assuming there is consensus on pedagogical value and a clear answer on<br>
the copyright status of the UDHR, the remaining question is how to go<br>
about packaging this content for OLPC distributions. The material<br>
downloads primarily as PDF files. I haven't checked them all, but<br>
some are text selectable "composited" PDFs, some may be scanned image<br>
PDFs, and a few are possibly available as HTML.<br>
<br>
I would like to do as little rework as possible on packaging these (in<br>
part to get them ready in time for the 11.2.0 release), so I am<br>
inclined to stick with the 8 page PDF as downloaded. One possibility<br>
would be to include all of the languages, but this seems wasteful of<br>
precious space.<br>
<br>
I am not aware of any storage structure currently available for<br>
content management by language in the way that Pootle handles strings<br>
and the individual languages in the /po directory in git. I'm unsure<br>
of how this could be managed with the build process to pick up the<br>
appropriate localized version of the UDHR.<br>
<br>
Let's be clear that I am not really a developer, so I would be happy<br>
to see someone take this idea and run with it. I am more than willing<br>
to collaborate with anyone on bringing this to fruition, but I<br>
probably can't pull it off all by myself without some assistance (at<br>
least advice and feedback on appropriate technical issues).<br>
<br>
cjl<br>
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