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Walking away with some knowledge, skills or connections to people that would help to address things once they are back home.\r\n\r\nGlobal thinking or localization strategy.  Having a much higher level view of how localization is integrated into their project or language strategy.\r\nStrange as it might seem, the web is not English. In fact HTML speaks no language.  Even more odd is the fact that web has no real requirement for English literacy, apart from the one we may have created.\r\n\r\nSo as we're targeting the next few million people who are to become web literate and who are to become creators and participators on the web it may help to consider that most of them will most likely no be English literate.\r\n\r\nOur space will help you understand how all languages and cultures are uniquely different, valuable and critical if we are to make a difference in the lives of the majority of the worlds population.\r\n\r\nThe Mozilla community is vast in its different cultural and language backgrounds and it is important for us to acknowledge this and adapt what we do to not only include everyone but to celebrate differences.\r\n\r\nBuy participating you will learn how languages are different, how to include diversity into products and how to take some of those skills to local communities and make it happen locally.\"","creator":{"login":"Saallen","id":10194015,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10194015?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Saallen","html_url":"https://github.com/Saallen","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Saallen/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Saallen/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Saallen/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Saallen/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Saallen/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Saallen/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Saallen/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Saallen/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Saallen/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"open_issues":3,"closed_issues":1,"state":"open","created_at":"2015-09-08T14:34:02Z","updated_at":"2015-10-21T18:59:45Z","due_on":null,"closed_at":null},"comments":10,"created_at":"2015-09-10T18:33:02Z","updated_at":"2015-10-26T16:57:26Z","closed_at":null,"body":"**[ Google Spreadsheet Row Number ]** 401\n**[ Facilitator ]** Mohomodou Houssouba\n\n### Description\nParticipants of different ages – hopefully with a sizable number of children – will join in a creative project which involves playing with the Songhay language and cultural heritage through visual aids. At first glance, the exercise involves exploring an unfamiliar language, one they would rarely know about before joining this session. They will work in pairs or groups to put together letters into words, words into phrases and even simple sentences, match some words and phrases with images or situations that they encounter on worksheets. There is no right or wrong answer. If someone insists that his/her word exists in Songhay, they can prove it by using a dictionary. If the word doesn't appear, it may still exist; since the dictionary is still not fully developed like one in English. In all, the playful interaction with a language and its imagery is the at heart of this session.   \n\n### Agenda\nThe session is conceived as a workshop but it could also work in an open space. I will bring along worksheets with letters, words and phrases; dictionaries and glossaries; images to match and pieces for a puzzle; sounds that wrap the participants in a special environment. Minimal equipment needed on site: mobile boards to hang pieces, if possible a beamer to project images across a large room or to free-moving groups in an open space, sound system. Continuous motion and hands-on participation are expected throughout the session. Participants create their words in the end, and the fun is to find a meaning for their creations by using the dictionaries and asking me. \n\n### Participants\nThe session can be easily adjusted to small and larger groups. For example, 5 children can do a workshop on learning Songhay by matching letters with different patterns of weaving (palm-leaf mats and fans, leather rugs) and animal hides (cows, goats, sheep). A mixed group of 15 will share different images and worksheets to put together different segments of a puzzle. With 50 or more, we will create a core group (about 20) and use the rest as a public or jury. To be sure, this is a free-flowing, open-ended activity, which people can join at different levels or leave whenever they wish. The format is sufficiently flexible because the session is geared toward a young and curious public that is not necessary directly involved in localization. Still children today come across music, images and stories from other countries early on and relate to the diversity in the world.\n\n### Outcome\nWe would like participants to experience and appreciate the capacity of African languages to express beauty to the ear (poetry) and to the eye (art and craft). All around, they will hear short texts being read in Songhay, see images matching with letters, words and phrases, grapple with special characters and sounds and unfamiliar images. This immersion enables them to feel the complexity of each language, with a rich vocabulary in one area (50-100 possible combinations for cow patterns) and a limited terminology in another (computing terms). The participants experience directly the challenge of localizing a term across languages and cultures.  The experience will be documented through a short report; the results  will be presented to localization trainees in Africa as an illustration of the intercultural dynamics of their work, the creative process involved and the flexibility needed to make culturally relevant translations out of technical tasks.\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mozilla/mozfest-program/issues/comments/151208405","html_url":"https://github.com/mozilla/mozfest-program/issues/415#issuecomment-151208405","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mozilla/mozfest-program/issues/415","id":151208405,"user":{"login":"ArtsAward","id":15327888,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/15327888?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ArtsAward","html_url":"https://github.com/ArtsAward","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ArtsAward/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ArtsAward/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ArtsAward/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ArtsAward/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ArtsAward/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ArtsAward/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ArtsAward/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ArtsAward/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ArtsAward/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-26T16:57:26Z","updated_at":"2015-10-26T16:57:26Z","body":"@EPIKhub looks like a pathway for Arts Award, please add to your list of relevant pathways out from the Youth Zone"}}