Translathon in maya

Translathon in maya

Date

The event will start on 2012/08/09 10:00:00 AM till 2012/08/09 08:00:00 PM.

Location

Merida, Mexico, LATAM

Owner

This event is owned by jegs87

Attendance

It is estimated that 10-50 people will be at the event.

Description

Following the mission of Mozilla about having an open Web and easy for everyone, and knowing about the poor interest in some native comunities in Mexico to have participation in the Web but they don't have any presence of this language in it. The Mozilla comunity in Mexico is organizing the first Translathon in Merida, Yucatan, it's a translations marathon, the mayan language on this case. This is for translation and location of Firefox in mayan language[1]; For the translation of Wikipedia in maya[2] that will be integrated on the search bar of location of Firefox in maya and add the "Endangered Languages Project" of Google[3]. [1] http://mozilla-mexico.org/firefox-en-maya/ [2] http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/yua/Yich_T%C3%A1anil_Ju%27un [3] http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/

Bugs Associated

Budget ticket : 774594
Swag ticket : [1]

Links

Event Website :

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Interviews

• Mayan linguist 1
  
• Mayan linguist 2
  

Media coverage:

• CNN México
• Engadget
• The Next Web
• Excelsior
• Terra
• Diario de Yucatán
• WebAdictos
• AnimalPolítico.com
• FayerWayer