If you conduct the meetings in voice, you also limit the ability of non-english speakers. If it's done in chat, machine translation is a viable option. Chat may take more time, but isn't it worth the time and effort to do things right?
On Aug 16, 2010, at 7:35 PM, Tateru Nino wrote: > > > On 17/08/2010 4:56 AM, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) wrote: >> >> >> >>> Will try to come, hoping it's not going to be one of those voice meetings >>> where non-English people like me can't speak well enough neither understand >>> what is being said... >> >> This meeting will include voice because it's so time consuming to do >> everything in chat. We will have someone putting the important points into >> chat as much as possible, and will certainly respond to questions in chat. >> >> For anyone who wants to have a separate chat-only meeting at another time, >> I'll be glad to set that up. >> > Actually, I was thinking about the Americans With Disabilities Act, > personally. Especially as the anniversary of the Act has just been by. Unless > text, you know, clearly represents an "unreasonable burden". > -- > Tateru Nino > http://dwellonit.taterunino.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
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