[Grassroots-l] Volunteer opportunities : the example of the "francophony"

[Seth Woodworth]

The french translation of the Sugar UI are well advanced:
https://dev.laptop.org/translate/fr/ states the average level of translation
to be at 86%.  This is a great start and the amount of time required to
finish translation completely is nil.

If any of you speak french, please consider helping the translation ongoing
at https://dev.laptop.org/translate/fr/


Seth

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 5:45 AM, <s.boutayeb at free.fr> wrote:

> We will soon be faced with the perspective of deployments involving french
> speaking countries/regions (aka francophones countries, both in the "North"
> (Louisiane, Québec, France, Belgique, Switzerland, etc.) and in the "South"
> (Maghreb, Subsaharian Africa, Near-Ost, SO-Asia, Pacifics, etc.). Note that
> most
> so called "francophone" regions are multilingual ones, with local languages
> which might benefit as well from the global and francophone OLPC effort
> (Haiti
> is an concrete example of that situation).
>
> For this regions especially, we may see 4 issues where the role of
> volunteers
> will be an important factor and in which Grassroots organization like OLPC
> France will have to contribute, with the help of a whole ecosystem of
> participants :
>
> - the people to be involved with diverse actions (teachers, school kids,
> grassroots, NGOs, locale/national/supranational administrations) either as
> individuals or as groups
>
> - the financement (either local (private or public) or through various
> support
> programs (G1G1, francophone organizations, global education programs,
> NGOs)
>
> - the infrastructure (deployments of XO and the accompanying measures)
>
> - the contents to be created, localized, adapted/redesigned, or shared
>
> - the promotion through public actions (pilots, conferences, lobbying,
> formations)
>
> Grassroots organizations in general and OLPC France especially will address
> these 4 issues in the context of the "francophony" where the common use of
> the
> french language may help realize economies of scale and reinforce links
> between
> the organizations involved in the global effort, especially in the
> deployments.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Samy
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