[School-of-data] Fw: How to translate School of Data materials into Japanese

Tue Oct 21 04:37:42 UTC 2014

Hi,

(Well, it's kinda personal mail to heather, but the original
discussion was done at this mailing list, so I keep that...)

2014-07-05 3:41 GMT+09:00 heather Leson <heather.leson at okfn.org>:
> Hi Masayuki, your note arrives at the most opportune time. The School of
> Data team is meeting in Berlin as part of OKFest and School of Data Summer
> Camp. We will be discussing and strategizing on topics like
> localization/translation, School of Data instances and more. We want to plan
> carefully and respectfully.  The plan post-event is to share that back with
> this list and via the community channels.
>
> We would be honoured to know that you used these courses.   Regarding
> translating the website and modules, Michael and I are working on a plan for
> this next week, which we will then field test with colleagues and network
> folks.
> I will add your request to the important list and followup. Our goal is to
> do these activities with full community collaboration.

So it was 3 months ago, how's thing going? ;-)

I'm still willing to do some work on School of Data, localization or
whatever, and there is a (slim) opportunity for me to get a grant now.
So I appreciate if you could tell me how to do or how you think.

Best regards,
MH

>
> Thank you again for your interest and enthusiasm.
>
> Heather
>
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> On 3 July 2014 11:04, Masayuki Hatta <mhatta at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> [Some time ago I sent this mail to schoolofdata at okfn.org, but get no
>> reply yet.  Actually this mail doesn't contain any private
>> information,  so I re-send it to this mailing list...]
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm teaching Management Information Systems at a small university in
>> Japan.  I also teach an introductory computer programming & data
>> visualization course using Processing, and something like "Tech &
>> Journalism" course at a different unversity.
>>
>> Next year, I'll possibly have to take over another course, and I'd
>> like to develop it as an introductory data analysis course using
>> mostly FLOSS.
>>
>> It would be really nice if I could use School of Data courses for a
>> part of my course(and possibly write & contribute new ones if not
>> existed yet). My students are not fluent in English, so I need to make
>> them translated into Japanese.  I can do that by myself, but there's a
>> question:
>>
>> How can I translate the School of Data website?  Of course I can
>> prepare my own web server and put translation to it, but I appreciate
>> if I could put them on the main School of Data site.  Or at least I'd
>> like to have a copy of the system behind School of Data(seems
>> customized Wordpress?) and data dump.  Could you tell me the proper
>> translation procedure?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> MH
>>
>> --
>> Masayuki Hatta
>> Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics and Management, Surugadai
>> University, Japan
>>
>> http://about.me/mhatta
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>> hatta.masayuki at surugadai.ac.jp
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Masayuki Hatta
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics and Management, Surugadai
University, Japan

http://about.me/mhatta

mhatta at gnu.org  / mhatta at debian.org / mhatta at opensource.jp /
hatta.masayuki at surugadai.ac.jp