microsoft

[MiaKalish@LFP]

There is an interesting issue with the language extension here, at least for
Apache speakers. The majority of the Apache speakers are Elders, who don't
know much about technology. The technologists are younger people who don't
know Apache. The concepts fall in the cracks. We see this in English in
places where companies hire English majors to write their documentation, and
since the writers don't know technology, the documentation is seldom more
than a polished version of the spec.

Mia

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandra Andrews" <sandra at ASU.EDU>
To: <ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: microsoft


We have Linux people here (at ASU) who are really interested in this idea
and have been discussing it for awhile. We would want partners of course,
native speakers and others, and I think some sort of funding. OSX is an
interface to Linux in a sense so we are thinking that one would be as good
as the other. :-)

Sandy

Sandra Sutton Andrews
Digital Media and Instructional Technologies
Arizona State University

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> From:         Indigenous Languages and Technology on behalf of David Gene
Lewis
> Reply To:     Indigenous Languages and Technology
> Sent:         Friday, November 12, 2004 11:39 AM
> To:   ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> Subject:      microsoft
>
> I remember several discussion over the past 3-5 years, once on the
> KMA-L listserver of the U Hawaii and several times on the Chinook-L
> listserver about Microsoft and its "open source" browser. if I
> remember right there were some Native computer techies working on
> putting Hawaiian onto the Microsoft browser. I am not that good at
> computer technical stuff so I can't really describe it correctly. All
> of the Chinook-L messages are archived on the LinguistList archives
> database that are fully searchable.
>
> I am not sure how far programming into the Iexplorer browser went. I
> would think that the best luck might be had with the Linux system.
> They are completely open source and there is an army of computer guys
> creating programming for that system. maybe this is a direction that
> has some future for Native languages. Anyone here work with Linux???
>
> I will try to fine the text of the discussion about Microsoft open
> source programming for the list.
> David
>
>
>
> >>It is really, really, really hard to build something as big as
> Windows in
> another language.
>
> I struggled for 3 years to get Mescalero to adopt some fonts that
> would work
> in Microsoft Office, which I had to design, build, and develop
> supporting
> tools for.
>
>
>
>
>
> David Lewis
> University of Oregon
> Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
>
>