Haitian Creole Translation for Education

Translation Community

Our Haitian Creole translation community starts with Haitian Americans helping Haitians now rearchitecting education for a new Haiti. We began in NYC and Boston, but all are welcome to join, recruit Creole speakers you know, and start translating!

Join our Collaboration Space:

• http://NewHaitiProject.ning.com/group/onelaptopperchildwaveplaceproject
• http://TheNewHaitiProject.com

News/Blogs

• Carmina's Blog: http://raisehaitiup.wordpress.com
• OLPC Volunteer Community Blogs: http://planet.laptop.org

Resources to Start Translating!

• http://YeleSurvivors.org
• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Haitian_Creole_Translation_for_Education
• http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Languages_and_Translation

Mailing Lists

OLPC-HAITI Public Discussion, focused on Creole especially:
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-haiti

General translation/software discussion:
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization

Legacy Kreyol list:
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/kreyol

Prioritized Tasks

http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-haiti/2010-January/000075.html

People

Carmina - volunteer coordination
Geradline - publisher relations
Hans - coloring book/content/code/web designer
Marilyn - Crisis Camp collaboration coordination
Adam - OLPC Support/Community Coordination
Tim - Waveplace.org in-school needs assessment
Allison - church outreach/audio books
(many others not listes, we'd love to talk to you on our mailing list & collab-space above!)