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Contents:

  • Conferece Programme (Place:Theatre)
  • Videos on Web-TV
  • Speakers with affiliation and notes

 

Conference Programme (Place: Theatre)

Begin time End time Speaker Theme
10:00 10:15 Bèrto 'd Sèra or Sabine Cretella Welcome and introduction to the conference.
10:15 10:20 Florence Devouard Introductory video: The relevance of Wikipedia for less resourced languages and why contributing to them makes sense.
10:20 10:45 Siebrand Mazeland Wikipedia and MediaWiki and the relevance of proper localization of the user interface of software to be used for less resourced languages taking as example the Betawiki localization project.
10:45 10:50 Raoul Weiler Video: How to overcome the digital divide by allowing for local languages by
localizing software and creating digital and therefore easy to
distribute contents and study material.
10:50 11:00 Sabine Cretella Reading of United Nations expert paper by Lars Anders-Baer, Prepared in cooperation with Ole Henrik-Magga, Robert Dunbar and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (recorded): Forms of Education of Indigenous Children as Crimes Agains Humanity.
11:00 11:30 Michelino Davico Coordinating the approach to protect minority languages within the European Union.
11:30 11:45 Adam Frost Video and short introduction: Sign Writing - Why?
11:45 12:00 Gerard Meijssen The relevance of regional open contents projects in connection with ISO 639-6
12:00 12:30 Martin Mai substituted by Gerard Meijssen E-learning – everyday usage at universities and possibilities for less resourced languages. Example: vocabulary trainer.
12:30 13:00 Gianni Gavioli Logos' approaches to less resourced languages.
       
13:00 15:00 Lunch / Networking  
15:00 15:30 Francis Tyers Opportunities with machine translation for less resourced languages.
       
15:30 16:00 Martin Benjamin How to overcome the situation of mistreatments of children in Africa just because they are speaking their mother tongue.
16:00 16:30 Delegation of the Senegalese community of Turin Experiences in Senegal with local languages.
16:30 16:35 Senfi: Ismaila and Outi Sané First donated lullabies for the Open Nursery collection: Dingodingo (Mandingo) & Aa tuuti lasta (Finnish)
16:35 17:00 Bèrto 'd Sèra Open Nursery: a public presentation of the project that aims to collect lullabies and recorded stories for Children in less resourced languages.
17:00 17:30   Wrap-up

Videos on Web-TV

Speaker Theme
Radio Funkwerk (Thüringer Landesmedienanstalt) Richard Schaefer and Andrea Baetzig present Karl-Heinz Großmann on texts written in Itzgründisch a dialect of Mainfränkisch
Billy Croy My native tongue, how it is considered in the USA and in Italy.
Florence Devouard Wikipedia in less resourced languages and why they are relevant.
Adam Frost  Why SignWriting?
Gernot Hausar eLib an international project for the preservation and digitalization of texts and books.
Erik Möller Why is licensing relevant? - Workshop ca. 60 min.
Kevin Scannell An Gramadóir - A grammar checking engine for less resourced languages.
Raoul Weiler How to overcome the digital divide by allowing for local languages by localizing software and creating digital and therefore easy to distribute contents and study material.
Friedel Wolff Localising Software into less resourced languages – a practical approach

 

Speakers

Speaker Affiliation Notes
Andrea Baetzig Radio Funkwerk (Thüringer Landesmedienanstalt) recorded
Martin Benjamin PALDO, Kamusi Project local
Billy Croy Pianist and Organist recorded
Sabine Cretella CCO, Vox Humanitatis local, confirmed
Bèrto 'd Sèra CEO, Vox Humanitatis local, confirmed
Michelino Davico Senator of the Italian Republic local, confirmed
Florence Devouard President, Wikimedia Foundation recorded, confirmed
Karl-Heinz Großmann Author of thrillers and of books in Itzgründisch, a dialect of Mainfränkisch recorded
Gernot Hausar University of Vienna, eLib recorded
Gerard Meijssen
 World Language Documentation Centre, President Open Progress local, confirmed
Martin Mai Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany local, confirmed
Siebrand Mazeland Open Progress local, confirmed
Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia foundation video, confirmed
Kevin Scannell A Gramadoir recorded, confirmed
Richard Schaefer Radio Funkwerk (Thüringer Landesmedienanstalt)  recorded
Martin Thomas Advisor, Counsellor at Frontiers Corporate Development, UAE video, confirmed
Francis Tyers Programmer, Apertium project local, confirmed
Raoul Weiler President, Club of Rome, Belgium video, confirmed (present in person, also for donation on 1 June)
Friedel Wolff Translate.org.za video, confirmed
Gianni Gavioli Logos local, confirmed

 

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