[Insight-developers] ITK -TCON 2.0 : Second Life : Friday August 22nd : 1pm EST

[Mathieu Malaterre]

http://www.avmedia.org/ytp/

I could not find the original link I was thinking about: some kind of
app developed by google which would translate on the fly an IM
discussion.

Anyway, who still speaks French anymore today ? ;-P

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Gaetan,
>
>    You bring up a very important point here.
>
> As a non-native English speaker I fully understand that the
> standard of hosting the ITK tcon in English is not fully
> welcoming the international diversity of the developers
> and users community.
>
> There is no reason why we couldn't alternate the language
> of the ITK Tcon 2.0, and for example, every two weeks host
> it in French or Spanish.
>
> Alternatively, we could also explore the option of having
> volunteers to translate during the tcon, by taking advantage
> of the multiple voice channel capabilities of second life.
>
> For example, I'll be happy to volunteer for translating:
>
>      English  --> Spanish
>      Spanish  --> English
>      French   --> English
>
> I would speculate that we should be able to find volunteers
> for translating:
>
>      English --> French
>      English --> Dutch
>
>
> One of the goals of the ITK Tcon 2.0 is to engage a larger
> community of users and developers. So we fully agree with
> you that we must consider celebrating the linguistic diversity
> of the community.
>
>
>   My 2 Cents
>
>
>      Luis
>
>
>
> ---------------------
> Gaëtan Lehmann wrote:
>>
>> Le 13 août 08 à 16:55, Luis Ibanez a écrit :
>>
>>> The ITK Weekly phone conference has been for the past nine years
>>> one of the main vehicles of communication and coordination among
>>> developers.
>>>
>>> However, given the growth, and particularly the internationalization
>>> of the developers team. The phone conference is no longer being
>>> inclusive enough to fulfill its original purpose effectively.
>>>
>>> We are therefore experimenting with new technologies hopping to find
>>> a new method of communication that can effectively include developers
>>> from different geographical zones.
>>
>>
>>
>> On the side of the "old technologies", there is the IRC chan #itk on
>>  irc.freenode.net :-)
>> Not as attractive than SL, and surely not as efficient for a weekly
>>  meeting, but quite nice for non-native english speakers who have some
>>  difficulties to understand what is said in a phone conference.
>>
>> It would be nice to see some of us there, between the weekly phone
>>  conferences ;-)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Gaëtan
>>
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-- 
Mathieu