[HOT] Multilingual Site Support for HOT Export

[Kate Chapman]

Hi Nicolas,

Yes it needs to be discussed, but if someone could translate the
export tool into French in the next couple weeks that would be very
helpful for some short-term goals.

You also forget in your list Indonesia when you mention non-English
speaking countries. HOT-Indonesia does a lot of work in a non-English
speaking and non-UN language so we certainly have some methods we have
been doing for a while.  For example we have Indonesia only Facebook
groups and Twitter accounts. There is also a website available in
English and Indonesian. It is probably time for HOT to have a Facebook
and Twitter account that are French only. Also web presence can be
set-up for specific countries with languages related to those places.
I obviously can do nothing to facilitate that, but we can look towards
other multilingual groups and what they do.

-Kate

On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 9:38 PM, nicolas chavent
<nicolas.chavent at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Kate and Heather
>
> This is a huge need and a key condition if we want to foster our impact in
> non English speaking countries: Haiti, Sen, Chad, Burundi, CAR, Togo, surely
> Burkina show how hard it is for people to make the best use of our English
> based materials, tools, blog posts, tweets, FB posts and reports.
>
> Might be good to set up a hot chat on this topic and looks at platform to
> support this, as well as partners and communities likely to have an interest
> helping HOT in this area; for French and African languages we can get
> support by Direction de la Francophonie Numérique from Organisation
> Internationale de la Francophonie: I'll have a call in the next days to have
> the latest update on budget elements + implementation conditions for this
> support to happen. I'll get back on list then.
>
> Nicolas
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Heather Leson <hleson at ushahidi.com> wrote:
>>
>> HI Kate, I've been talking with Translators without Borders. They have a
>> Translation community which will help on the Euro languages.  But, the
>> translation method below may not be accessible to non-techie helpers.
>>
>> For those who already do translations, do you find this method easy to
>> use? How can we improve.
>>
>> Some options - if there are a large number of translations that HOT needs,
>> maybe we could start using Transifex to build our language community
>> supporters? (We've doubled our translation at Ushahidi by moving to
>> Transifex.)  (free for groups like us)
>>
>> Heather
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Shortly there will be multilingual support for the HOT Export.
>>> Currently available are English and German. The structure is there for
>>> French to be added. Would someone have the time to translate this into
>>> French?
>>>
>>> Hopefully the process is pretty self explanatory.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/hotosm/hot-exports/tree/master/webinterface/config/locales
>>>
>>> If someone else wants it in another language just clone the repo then.
>>> You need to copy the yml and add the two letter code for your language
>>> to them. Next do a pull request.
>>>
>>> -Kate
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Heather Leson
>> Director of Community Engagement
>> Ushahidi
>> hleson at ushahidi.com
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