[Okfn-ca] Compte-rendu de la première réunion du groupe local, 9 juillet 2013 | OKFN Canada - Groupe local de l'Open Knowledge Foundation – Local Group : promouvoir le savoir libre

[Ted Strauss]

Hi Peder and all,
I attended the OKFN-ca meetup last week and brought up the language issue
during the brainstorming round we did. I'm bilingual, from anglo Canada,
and the
first concern I had about a national group was the language split. I
brought it
up and this issue was grouped priority #1, along with other out-reach
issues.

I also have a specific idea for how to improve communications generally, and
specifically around the langauge issue. The idea is to move okfn-ca
discussion
into a more feature-rich forum software. I have recently setup a forum at
odx.io
using the new Discourse <http://discourse.org> forum, and I'd be willing to
modify it to become the
okfn-ca discussion hub.

How would this forum help the language issue?
 - By moving conversations out of the listserv, it's stops you receiving
emails that are not in your preferred language, which can become annoying.
 - We could mix together English and French topics inside the forum, so
users could pick and choose what topics to engage with.
 - Discussions can be all English, all French, or bilingual.

The Disourse forum has many other advantages, especially for long-term
collaborations.

Cheers
Ted Strauss



On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Peder Jakobsen <pjakobsen at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On 2013-07-11, at 11:28 PM, Diane Mercier <diane.mercier at gmail.com> wrote:
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> We understand that it is important for the rest of Canada to have a
> translation of French texts into English. Thanks to understand that 75%
> of Quebecers are functionally bilingual.
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> If this is true, but only 3 % of the rest of Canada is functionally
> bilingual, isn't this approach kind of labour intensive, slow, and
> potentially unnecessary?
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> Also, since I don't read any french at all,  how will I know which bits to
> plug into  Google translate?  Do I have to do every single post that lands
> in my inbox.
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> This  does not seem like a practical strategy for getting traction and
> growing the group in Canada, nor for inviting participation from OKFN in
> Europe and the US.
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> Peder
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