<div dir="ltr"><div><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="docs-internal-guid-359dd682-9474-0eed-1882-dd0a95d13cae"><font><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Salam,<br>

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</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We are a team of 10 mappers from OSM Sénégal, Togo, Burkina Faso, Niger and France (and or HOT) gathered in Dakar Sénégal. We started this morning working for a week (26 Nov + 6 days) on finishing the translation from English into French of LearnOSM (LO). This effort is supported by </span></font><font><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><font><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">the Direction de la Francophonie Numérique (DFN) de l'Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF).</span></font> </span></font></p>

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<font><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Since the LearnOSM project has been evolving with important/ on-going and not yet finalized changes affecting both the overall structure by section (Beginner - Intermediate - Advanced), the structure by chapter and the content of the chapters. Those changes are also reflected on the structure of the LearnOSM GitHub Repository which was not fully stable yet.</span></font></p>

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<font><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">In this context we have decided to complete the translation of the LO materials (version 1.0)  which are currently accessible through the LearnOSM Website (Html page from GitHub) in the form of two series of Google Documents : </span></font></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font><a href="https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm/wiki/English-Learning-Guides" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">English Learning Guides</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></font></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font><a href="https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm/wiki/English-Teaching-Guides" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">English Teaching Guides</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">  </span></font></p>

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<font><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We chose to use Google documents, as working documents for the flexibility they allow us, and to contribute to the LearnOSM project the outcomes of the translation into MarkDown documents organized within a GitHub repository to remain within the spirit and practice of LearnOSM.</span></font></p>

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<font><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The translation will produce </span></font></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">- a serie of Google documents for Learning and Teaching guides</span></font></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">- a serie of associated Mark Down (draft) and images files organized in a forked GH repository (<a href="https://github.com/learnosmfrteam/learnosm">https://github.com/learnosmfrteam/learnosm</a>). </span></font></p>

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The Google docs will allow for immediately ready to use LO materials to support OSM activities in French speaking countries by the end of 2013.</span></font></p><font><br><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">

<font><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The MarkDown and Image files will work as reusable raw materials for translating LO materials (version 2.0) once finalized through the LO GitHub repository. </span></font></p>

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<font><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We already created a new wiki page on the LO github repo:</span></font></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font><a href="https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm/wiki/French-Learning-Guides" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm/wiki/French-Learning-Guides</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></font></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">this page will be updated to reflect our daily progress.</span></font></p>

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<font><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">By the end of this work, we will submit a series of Pull requests from the gh-pages branch of our forked github repository (github user learnosmfrteam) used during our translation sprint.  </span></font></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Link to our official github repository: <a href="https://github.com/learnosmfrteam/learnosm">https://github.com/learnosmfrteam/learnosm</a></span></font></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">All our commits will be tagged as following: #LOF commit-description-message</span></font></p>

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<font><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Once this sprint will be over and this LearnOSM version 1 translated, we look forward taking part in the on-going work around the next version of LearnOSM and once finalized, getting it translated into French</span></font></p>

<font><br><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">From Dakar, <br>

For the OIF LearnOSM French translation team,<br></span></font></div><font><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Nicolas<br clear="all">

</span></font><div><br>-- <br>Nicolas Chavent<div>Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team<div><a href="http://hot.openstreetmap.org/" target="_blank">http://hot.openstreetmap.org/</a><br>Mobile (FRA): +33 (0)6 52 40 78 20<br>Email: <a href="mailto:nicolas.chavent@hotosm.org" target="_blank">nicolas.chavent@hotosm.org</a></div>

<div>Email: <a href="mailto:nicolas.chavent@gmail.com" target="_blank">nicolas.chavent@gmail.com</a><br>Skype: c_nicolas<br>Twitter: nicolas_chavent<br></div></div>
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