Sean's assessment of FirstVoices

[Susan Gehr]

>> What exactly is FirstVoices? It's an easy-to-use, secure, cost-effective
>> web-based tool that enables any language group to develop its own
>> authentic and authoritative archiving and language reference resource from
>> within its own community.
>
> Regrettably, it's also junk.  You're better off using, well, absolutely
> anything else.
>
> --
> Sean M. Burke    http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

I'm also interested in how you came to your opinion of FirstVoices.  I
shopped around several different technology-based tools for documenting our
languages before settling on Shoebox for documentation & analysis. I do
recall having a brief exchange with the FirstVoices folks to get some more
information.


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Susan Gehr
Karuk Chi Nuuchuuphi Project
Karuk Tribe of California
P. O. Box 1016
Happy Camp, CA 96039
USA
Karuk Language Resources on the Web:    http://www.karuk.org/