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

On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 11:25 +0200, Marko Gronroos wrote:
> First of all, I'm somewhat annoyed that we make presentations in English. It's
> somewhat ok that we use English in some discussions, but producing material
> 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 entirely
> Finnish-speaking, so it might be ok.  Perhaps you should point out that the
> localisation wg operates in Finnish and, if possible, give them some material
> in Finnish.

I will certainly make clear the reasons for doing it in English.

> Another point is that we aren't localising just Linux, but generally Open
> Source software. The prominent projects such as OpenOffice, Gnome, and 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.

True, I thought about that, and decided to avoid the confusion of
explaining the difference between Linux and FLOSS in general.

Linux is a term they are most probably already somewhat familiar with. I
opted not to explain another term, which might make their understanding
of Linux more confusing. When students will join a joint project, we
will need to explain the difference, but at that moment we will have
more time than an hour to explain it and make sure they all understand.

> Regarding the introduction to internationalisation, perhaps you shouldn'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 presentation may
> be very important, if you just check if it is needed.

It's precisely there for people not knowing what it means, I have no way
of knowing whether they do. In fact I suspect they don't know what it
means.

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

Good point, I will run a spelling-checker over it.

> > 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.

Are those the only terms you see as too technical?
They do have an explanation besides them, but I agree explaining the
difference might take some effort.
But they need to be mentioned as we have localisation teams for both of
those pieces of technology.

-Aschwin