Re: [L-A Lokalisointi] Feedback on presentation for Translation department student in Kouvola

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Aschwin van der Woude wrote:
> The first version is now ready, and I would like to have some feedb=
ack
> from you all about it.
> ...
> It would be great if you would provide feedback on both the structu=
re,
> the content and its accuracy.

It looks generally like a good presentation.

There are a few points.

First of all, I'm somewhat annoyed that we make presentations in Engl=
ish. It's
somewhat ok that we use English in some discussions, but producing ma=
terial
and giving presentations in English is rather...strange and might not=
 give a
good image. Well, in this case it may be that the audience is not ent=
irely
Finnish-speaking, so it might be ok.  Perhaps you should point out th=
at the
localisation wg operates in Finnish and, if possible, give them some =
material
in Finnish.

Another point is that we aren't localising just Linux, but generally =
Open
Source software. The prominent projects such as OpenOffice, Gnome, an=
d KDE are
not just for Linux. So perhaps you should make the introduction about=
 Open
Source generally, and mention Linux as the central OSS project which =
ties all
the other softwares together.

Regarding the introduction to internationalisation, perhaps you shoul=
dn't
assume that the audience doesn't know what internationalisation means=
 (that
might actually be a bit offensive). Well, perhaps they don't know, at=
 least if
the audience is mostly students, so giving that part of the presentat=
ion may
be very important, if you just check if it is needed.

The presentation has really a lot of spelling mistakes. Perhaps you s=
hould at
least turn on the spell checker. If we don't know how to write even E=
nglish
(or Finnish) properly, how can we be taken seriously for translation =
work?

> Do keep in mind the target-audience isn't technically-oriented and
> mostly female.

Well, the content does seem to be rather technical. Many of the names
(Gnome???? KDE?????  What are those??) are not really self-evident.

-- Marko Gr=F6nroos, [email protected] (http://www.iki.fi/magi/)