Hacklog: Blogamundo — poking holes in the language barrier since approximately 1 month from now

You can read the log of our chat from the #globalvoices channel here: Global Voices / Blogamundo IRC Meeting Log.

It’s a bit long; if you’re in a hurry you might want to come back later tonight as I’ll be updating this post with a summary of key points.

Thanks, Rebecca, for setting up the chat!

(And as long as we’re on the subject of chat, we’ve set up our own channel on freenode at #blogamundo, feel free to drop by.)

Summary

So after having reread the logs of today’s irc discussion, I realize that I got a bit confused what with all the ideas flying around. I think I’ve got all the main concepts boiled down to just two goals:

1. Outbound translation How to help their multilingual readers to translate Global Voices content into other languages

1. Inbound translation How to organize efforts to translate content in many English for the benefit of all Global Voices readers—for the time being, this would mean organizing translations into English

Rebecca has a workable plan for a near-term solution to #1: it involves using special tags on del.icio.us to label outbound translations, and then aggregating those translations at Bloglines. We agreed that this is a good starting point, and in the coming week or so we’re going to see if we can come up with some ideas for streamlining that process.

I’ll have more to say about this tomorrow. I’m also be looking for suggestions and further comments… more soon!

It was a lot of fun meeting (and re-meeting) everyone from GVO, can’t wait to see what we can come up with.

(This is the part where I go to sleep. ☺ )