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

[Jose L. Marin]

I think even allowing submissions in every language is not a good idea...

Do we really have ability to judge the work done in every EU language?

It would be very difficult to make a fair evaluation...


El 31/03/11 10:05, Thomas Roessler escribió:
> 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>
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> On Mar 31, 2011, at 10:01, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
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>> 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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