[euopendata] [open-government] [psi-workers] Rules + website for Open Data Challenge

Thu Mar 31 08:05:00 UTC 2011

While I have no opinion on the language question, getting this shipped is becoming really important and urgent. 

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Thomas Roessler, W3C  (mobile) <tlr at w3.org>

On Mar 31, 2011, at 10:01, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:

> Dear all,
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> I would like to disagree. I do not think it's really a good idea to start with more than english, because 
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> - it's not necessary
> - people will ask why there is no Finnish and Romanian
> - it will end up in more and more work
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> A completely different question is to allow for (but not encourage to) submissions in all EU languages
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> Finally I agree with others that we should ask how the commission thinks about this.
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> my2cent
> Daniel
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> On 28.03.2011, at 14:11, Paul Meller wrote:
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>> I also replied via Doodle. I agree with Federico that the website, rules etc could be in English but the initial invites should be in at least the three core EU languages - English, French and German. 
>> Also I think entrants should be able to submit in these three languages. I know it means more work processing the submissions but if this is to be a pan-EUropean contest I think you can't avoid doing this. Perhaps we should check with the European Commission...
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>> Regards,
>> Paul
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>> On 28 March 2011 11:33, Federico Morando <federico.morando at polito.it> wrote:
>> On 03/26/2011 07:15 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>> What do people think? I've created a poll on "Should the Open Data
>> Challenge website be in multiple languages?" here:
>> I answered online, but I want to add that the call (i.e. the email that we send around) could probably be in multiple languages, while the website and the rules should be in English, imho; moreover, I would ask for submissions including English as one of the languages. In fact, doing otherwise would be nice, but it would require a lot of additional effort and this is probably excessive in the context of a project without any EU funding...
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>> Best,
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>> Federico
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