Aspiration, a nonprofit organization focused on connecting nonprofit organizations with the best available software, will host Open Translation Tools 2009. The event will be followed by an Open Translation “Book Sprint” which will produce a first-of-its-kind volume on tools and best practices in the field of Open Translation. Both events are being co-organized in partnership with FLOSSManuals.net and Translate.org.za, with support from the Open Society Institute Information Program.
Agenda partners for the event include Creative Commons, Global Voices Online, WorldWide Lexicon, Meedan, and DotSUB. The event will convene stakeholders in the field of open content translation. Over the course of three days, the group will work together to assess the state of software tools that support translation of content available under open content licenses such as Creative Commons. The event will serve to map out what’s available, what’s missing, who’s doing what, and to recommend strategic next steps to address those needs.
Conference Goals
- Addressing the translation challenges faced by the open education, open content, and human rights blogging communities, and mapping requirements to available open solutions.
- Building on the vision and exploring new use cases for the Global Voices Lingua Translation Exchange.
- Documenting the state of the art in distributed human translation, and discussing how to further tap the tremendous translation potential of the net.
- Making tools talk better: realizing a standards-driven approach to open translation.
- Exploring and sketching out Open Translation API designs, building on existing work and models.
- Documenting workflow requirements for missing open translation tools.
- Matchmaking between open source tools and open content projects.
- Mapping of available tools to open translation use cases.