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

[Daniel Dietrich]

Dear all,

I would like to disagree. I do not think it's really a good idea to start with more than english, because 

- it's not necessary
- people will ask why there is no Finnish and Romanian
- it will end up in more and more work

A completely different question is to allow for (but not encourage to) submissions in all EU languages

Finally I agree with others that we should ask how the commission thinks about this.

my2cent
Daniel




On 28.03.2011, at 14:11, Paul Meller wrote:

> 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...
> 
> Regards,
> Paul
> 
> 
> 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...
> 
> Best,
> 
> Federico
> 
> 
> 
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