[Olpc-Haiti] our Haiti translation site's now in English + French + on Facebook too!

[Samuel Klein]

Many Kreyol speakers and writers read French as a second language, not
English.  So yes, translations into French of the pages asking for
help make a big difference.

SJ

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Michel DeGraff <degraff at mit.edu> wrote:
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> French translation volunteers for Haitians?!?
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> ----- Message from holt at laptop.org ---------
>    Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:18:02 -0500
>    From: Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org>
> Reply-To: Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org>
> Subject: [Olpc-Haiti] our Haiti translation site's now in English +
> French + on Facebook too!
>      To: olpc-haiti at lists.laptop.org, Support Gangsters
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>> /Thanks to the very dedicated work of the //http://olpc-france.org
>> //volunteer community:/
>>
>> Subject:      Re: RE : [support-gang] TODAY: quick 4PM OLPC community
>> conversation
>> Date:         Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:21:17 +0100
>> From:         Bastien <bastienguerry at googlemail.com>
>> To:   Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org>
>>
>>
>> Adam,
>>
>> Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> writes:
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>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Haitian_Creole_Translation_for_Education
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>> I'll forward this, thanks.
>>
>> I've translated this page into french:
>>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Haitian_Creole_Translation_for_Education/lang-fr
>>
>> I've just written a small blog entry to help recruit french volunteers:
>>
>> http://olpc-france.org/blog/2010/02/recherche-traducteurs-creole-haitienanglaisfrancais/
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>> There are many haitians speaking french in the diaspora, I hope this
>> will help.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
>> Bastien
>>
>>
>>
>> Subject:      FYI: Call for OLPC/Haiti translators forwarded on
>> interpreters facebook group
>> Date:         Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:06:07 +0100
>> From:         Bastien <bastienguerry at googlemail.com>
>> To:   Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org>
>> CC:   Samy Boutayeb <samy.boutayeb at olpc-france.org>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> Samy pointed me to this FB group (thanks Samy!):
>> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=245649094887#
>>
>> I allowed myself to send a message about OLPC/Haiti translation
>> efforts.
>>
>> Congrats for building such a great proactive community!
>>
>> --
>> Bastien
>>
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