[ox] WSF India dolmetscher (FWD)
- From: Graham Seaman <graham seul.org>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 07:44:08 -0500 (EST)
Hi,
Just forwarding this because I thought:
1. maybe someone might be interested in doing a German translation
2. it related to the earlier thread about how possible translation
on FS principles might be - see http://www.babels.org/ - 'Babels ist ein
internationales Netzwerk freiwilliger Dolmetscher' :-)
Graham
If interested please contact:
Christophe Aguiton= caguiton yahoo.com
oder Lvannini ras.eu.org
www.babels.org/phpbb2
Phone: 0033 (6) 84 26 49 02
MUMBAI WORLD SOCIAL FORUM
A NEW DIGITALISED SYSTEM FOR TRANSLATION
During the next World Social Forum, which will be held
in Mumbai, India, 16-21 January 2004, a new
translation system will be used. The interpreters are
volunteers: Babels guarantees this service, as it did
with success during the last European Social Forum.
For the first time, we will not have to rent equipment
at exorbitant rates thanks to the combined use of FM
transmitters (for Indian languages) and a computer
based system that will digitalise the translation.
This system, called Nomad Interpreting Free Tools
(NIFT) uses a simple computer which is able to make an
interface between the speakers, the translators and
the audience. NIFT is a joint effort of several
groups, including APO33 and Babels, together with
free-software actors in various countries. This is an
ongoing process needing support from a wider variety
of actors and groups.
NIFT reduces the costs, enables the debates and
conferences to be broadcast via audio streaming in all
the languages translated, and to archive and index, by
speaker, the contents of these debates and conferences
through different media, such as DVD, CD and websites.
Today, we have three different propositions to make.
The first is to offer the possibility to diffuse, by
Internet, languages that will not be officially
translated in Mumbai. The second is a request to make
your website available as a mirror site to broadcast
the conferences and debates during the WSF. And third,
we are inviting you to join the NIFT project that will
be developed using free software and GNU licence.
This is a proposal for those who want to translate the
debates of the WSF into languages that will not be
officially translated in Mumbai. (The official
languages are Hindi, English, Marathi, Castillian,
French, Japanese, Thai and Korean.) For this to
happen, the interested organisations or institutions
need to provide one or more translators and to help
share the costs. The cost is probably about $200 to
rent a computer for one conference room and to
contribute to the costs of the internet connections,
but the cost will be much less if the translators has
his/her own laptop able to work with linux.
If you are interested, please let us know very soon to
wsf_stream ras.eu.org with:
The language you want to translate
The number of ?channels? you want to use. A ?channel?
is a conference room where translations is in place,
but it is possible to change the ?channel? from room
to room with minimal delay at no additional cost.
The number of translators you will have for the job.
2. This is a request to set up mirror sites to stream
and to archive the translated conferences. As you
know, streaming uses a lot of band space and by
sharing we can resolve this problem. Each site that
wants to be part of this mirroring system can do it in
one or several languages and will take the stream
directly from the provider installed for the WSF in
Mumbai.
The mirror sites will be linked to www.wsf.india.org.
If you are interested, please send the following
information to: wsf_stream ras.eu.org
Organsiation
Country
Languages you want to broadcast
Are you in India for the WSF?
Name of the technical contact
Email
Telephone
Url of your site:
Does your provider allow streaming?
Have you done it before?
What is your available bandwidth?
3. Third is an invitation to join the NIFT project.
This software will be available on 2 January at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/targ/. We welcome any
comments, suggestions of new functions or help to get
rid of the bugs
In solidarity
NIFT
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