[sudoroom] Internet Freedom Declaration Translathon; & sudo room Endorsement Proposal

[Eddan Katz]

Dear sudo folk.

Even if you're not in town this Friday, you can sudo participate room 
remotely by joining the Internet Freedom Translathon, a global 
collaborative effort to spread attention to the Declaration of Internet 
Freedom (http://www.internetdeclaration.org/), recently drafted by an 
international coalition of Internet freedom-lovin' groups.

background from Global Voices @ 
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/07/26/translation-declaration-internet-freedom/.
> The world may be glued to the TV to watch the start of theOlympic 
> Games 
> <http://globalvoicesonline.org/specialcoverage/london-2012-olympics/>in London, 
> but Global Voices Lingua translators are excited about another 
> challenge: theInternet Freedom Translathon 
> <http://bit.ly/Translathon>, a marathon to get the Declaration of 
> Internet Freedom <http://www.internetdeclaration.org/> translated in 
> as many languages and dialects as possible over the course of 24 hours 
> on Friday August 3. Everyone can join: you don't have to be an Olympic 
> athlete or professional translator to help!

There are currently translations in the following languages:

Albanian: http://www.internetdeclaration.org/sqArabic: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/arAymara: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/ayCatalan: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/caBangla: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/bnBulgarian: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/bgChinese (Simplified): 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/zh-hansChinese (Traditional): 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/zh-hantDanish: Coming soon! Dutch: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/nlEnglish: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/Farsi: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/faFilipino: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/filFrench: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/frGerman: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/deGreek: Coming soon! Hungarian: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/huIndonesian: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/idItalian: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/itJapanese: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/jaKorean: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/koMalagasy: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/mgMacedonian: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/mkPolish: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/plBrazilian Portuguese: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/ptRussian: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/ruSerbian: Coming soon! Spanish: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/esSwahili: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/swSwedish: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/svTurkish: 
http://www.internetdeclaration.org/trUrdu: Coming soon!

My impression is that there are more than several languages with which 
the sudo community could help out - in terms of drafting and/or 
reviewing the current translations. Let me know if you're interested.

I also think sudo room should sign on to this Internet Declaration as an 
organization. Problem is that we do not yet even officially exist (see 
http://lists.hackerspaces.org/pipermail/sudoroom/2012-July/000618.html) 
and have not yet agreed on a decision-making process for announcements 
or endorsements (see 
http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sudo_room/Compact#Sub-Section_3.0.1_Agenda). I 
propose we follow di Franco's brilliant suggestion for deciding to 
endorse as a group by the same methodology as the minimum threshold for 
the Compact. We have somewhat arbitrarily set that number at 23 
(http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sudo_room/Compact#Ratification). So if we 
get at least that number of folks replying +1 (on or off-list, as you 
prefer) and no objections to endorsement (substantive or procedural) by 
6pm on Fri. (~30 hrs. from now), I propose we sign on officially as sudo 
room sometime during the schedule of events at Art Murmur.

-Eddan
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