[Localization] [Appel à traduction Créole Haï tien] Empowering users

[Yama Ploskonka]

I agree.
I would appreciate y'all's opinion on this:

The way we are planning it for the Aymara event for Bolivia in October 
involves more people with no technology background BUT with outstanding 
oneness with the culture and language.

Numbers would be about 6 dedicated Aymarists, ideally innocent as to 
computers, 3-5 bilingual techies, convinced beforehand they should not 
suggest or intrude, present to help things happen and to transcribe what 
the Aymarists come with (ideally several of the Aymarists do not even 
know how to use a keyboard), and some extra techies for assorted support 
needs, one of which would be I.

This because of the many needed neologisms, which need to be metaphors 
that hopefully will be more intuitive than adaptations and barbarisms.

It is acknowledged this will provoke sharp disagreements, so a room and 
bandages will be provided  to vent those out :-)

Because there is no OLPC deployment anytime in the future for Bolivia, 
there is no way to involve teachers at this stage, except in the sense 
that some of those higher-level Aymarists likely are teachers also.


I should update the wiki page for the project.

I must apologize, for it is inappropriate in a community effort to 
conduct conversations on the side (which I have been doing with my 
potential counterparts in Bolivia), and not to report them.

Actually, I should eat my own catfood and reassert with deeds that all 
such planning should happen in the open, through wikis or better (?), so 
more people become empowered and can participate.  I do not know if I 
have any lurkers just ready to pitch in but that do not feel they are 
welcome  to make things happen...

Yama



s.boutayeb at free.fr wrote:
> Bonjour Yama,
> 
> In fact, what really matters with the OLPC project is to empower the users, in
> each linguistic and cultural comunity. I do speak from my experience as a
> linguist/terminologist, who reflected a bit about neologisms and the creation of
> concepts in a former life.
> 
> The new concepts that the users, either teachers or scholars, first in the
> schools, then in their family, will be faced with, have to be integrated by each
> user.
> This empowerment process is also a linguistical one: the elaboration of the
> appropriate terminology, with the numerous neologisms, is a key to the success
> of an education project involving new concepts and new tools and practices.
> The teachers, among other users, may contribute to the elaboration of the
> terminology and be involved in the translation effort or, at least, have the
> possibility to contribute to its elaboration.
> 
> Let's imagine original ways to benefit from the intelligence and creativity of
> the users!
> 
> Samy
> 
>> Let me second this.  We will be facing exactly this kind of problems
>> when we finally get started in the Aymara, Quechua and such.
>>
>> Thank you!
> 
>>> I suggest to you that you share your questions on this list. Im am quite sure
>>> that the problems do affect other language teams as well. We would be glad to
>>> examine with you the terminological issues and find together a solution. Your
>>> questions will help us all with no doubt.
> 
> 
>