A big "Thank You" to our Volunteer Translators |
May/June 2010 – 63 volunteer translators supported The Rosetta Foundation by translating approx. 30,000 English words in up to seven languages (French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish). Through these translations it was possible for Special Olympics Europe/Eurasia to offer their country divisions strategy material in their national language.
Special Olympics Europe/Eurasia and The Rosetta Foundation would like to thank all the volunteers that were involved in this project:
Adem Kaya; Adil Akkus; Agnes Maillot; Alexandra Aretio Pousa; Alexandra Mena; Alexandra Vaduva; Alina Kulinska; Almudena López; Ana Guerradh; Andreia Silva Braga; Anne Cazals; Anne Maria Corbett; Berengere Liger; Carla Costa; Carlos Garcia; Carolina Villalta Carpio; Cécile Perennou; Charlayne Iwanczuk; Dierk Seeburg; Dorit Hahn; Elena Borrás; Elena Martín; Eva Belles; Ewa Erdmann; Gabriela Torres; Grzegorz Wójcik; Idalina Gomes-Taylor; Irene Klajbor; Joao Nicolau; Jean-Christophe Barré; Julette Jones; Julia Gutgsell; Julianna Strzelczuk; Kevin Cabrera Luis; Leandro Bohnhoff; Magdalena Patrykiejew; Maika Vicente Navarro; Maria Castro; María Emilia Meini; Markus Naumann; Marta Franco López; Meike Beumers; Michaela Hanbuerger; Mohamed Mehenoun; Mónica Figueroa; Myriam Bastian; Nahit Karatasli; Natalja Zavjalova; Nathalie Cousserans; Nathalie Segura; Ozgur Aydek; Raquel López; Rinus Kruissen; Sandra Monferrer; Silvia Rodríguez Vázquez; Silvina Barbé; Stefanie Geldbach; Teresa Cañete; Varteny Pamboukian; Vincenzo Cammarata; Violetta Kupper; Yannick Delahousse; Yvonne Balzer
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March 2010 - The NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Network) is a membership organisation founded in 2000 made up of individuals, nonprofit and forprofit organisations. NTEN aspires to a world where all nonprofit organisations skillfully and confidently use technology to meet community needs and fulfill their missions. One aim of the NTEN is to offer networking opportunities among its members and a knowledge exchange on technology related issues. It also offers educational and training programmes and aims to provide access to discounted products and services for nonprofit organisations.
To find out more about NTEN click here
The Rosetta Foundation visited the NTEN-hosted NTC 2010 – The Nonprofit Technology Conference 2010 from the April 8 to 10 in Atlanta Georgia. |
Localisation Project of Anhalt University of Applied Sciences - The Rosetta Website Goes Multilingual |
The website of the Rosetta Foundation has taken the first steps towards multilinguality. Eleven students of the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences started translating the website content into their mother tongues: German, Polish, Moroccan Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Bahasa Indonesia and Turkish. Anhalt University, based in the small city of Köthen (Germany) is the only German university offering BA and MA degrees in software localisation. Stefanie Geldbach, who supervised the localisation project, participated in the Action Week of Global Information Sharing (AGIS ‘09) where she learned about the aims of Rosetta Foundation. “The work of the Rosetta Foundation raises the awareness for the tranlations needs of NGOs or humanitiarian organisations, something which is rarely discussed in the classroom,” explains Stefanie Geldbach. “Anhalt University attracts students from all over the world and my classes are made up of students of an international background. The localisation of the Rosetta website offered my students an ideal opportunity to gain more experience translating into their mother tongue and to broaden their perspective on issues such as crowdsourcing and volunteer translating”. Therefore she suggested to Reinhard Schäler to set up a localisation project for her BA students which took place in winter semester 2009. The following students contributed to this project: Tobias Heinze and Steffen Schwenckner (German), Beata Kozielska and Paweł Rac (Polish), Adil Khabar (Arabic), Thania Parmadi (Indonesian), Li Shaofang, Hu Wupeng, Rong Shaohua and Hou Xu (Simplified Chinese) and Abdullah Polat (Turkish). Abdullah Polat was further supported by Arev Babahan and Merve Toksoy from the university Mainz-Germersheim.
Recently, the Rosetta Foundation has relaunched its website. Multilingual information remains a key issue.
