Oie boyska,
Excerpts from boyska via Hackmeeting's message of July 22, 2022 11:12 pm:
> igor absorto:
>>Ciao,
>
> ciao!
>
>>absorto here, I'm planning to participate in the hackmeeting this year in
>>Torino. However I don't speak italian, although I can understand a bit
>>since I speak portuguese. Are there plans to provide translations during
>>the talks and workshops?
>
> Good question! I'll answer giving some historical context. I'm horrible
> with dates, so I hope I'm not making too many errors!
> I also never was so much involved with that, so please, whoever has more
> details, please correct me.
>
> - non-italian-speaking people used to be quite few until, let's say,
> 2013. of course this was a vicious circle.
> - there was quite some attention paid to making hackmeeting more
> accessible to non-italian-speaking people from ~2016.
> It never was a professional setup, but I remember it always improving
> and becoming more "obvious" in the organization of hackmeeting.
> - 2020 disrupted this. we need to start back!
>
> That was my understanding of the setup:
>
> - people that don't understand italian very well (or at all) are
> invited to say so, so that other people can support them
>
> - everyone is invited to volunteer as a translator and clearly say so
> to people that will most likely benefit from that
>
> - periodically (daily assemblies, lunch time, etc.) people coordinate
> about that. "I want to follow talk foo, could you translate
> that to me?" or "Hey, I can speak English and Italian and I want to
> follow the foobar talk, anyone needs translation?"
>
> It's clearly not perfect but at least most of the people can follow most
> of the talks, at least in the most common languages in this part of the
> world.
>
> We never created or used any "tool" (headphones, radio, microphones, or
> anything else) to do translations: the number of people per language
> per talk was not high enough to justify that.
The translation format you described is exactly what I was expecting/looking for.
Many thanks for your thoughtful response and the historical context as
well, this is very helpful.
I also want to share that someone wrote me off-list offering
help with translations, so this has great chances of working well ;)
See you in Turin,
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