-ILOOMINATE-Authoring eBooks in Multiple Languages

Nick Doiron, Asia Foundation

Sora Edwards-Thro, College of William & Mary

OVERVIEW• Enabling Writers Challenge

• Challenges and Resources for Haiti

• Choosing a tech stack

• Building a multilingual, multi-script app

• The offline, off-grid workshop in Lascahobas

ALL CHILDREN READING“Enabling Writers”

from USAID, WorldVision !

eBook authoring app free / open source

cross-platform offline

Latin, Arabic, Devanagari

NEED IN HAITI

Ecole Shalom Croix-des-Bouquets

Fall 2011

LITERACY IN HAITI

THE EDUCATION SIDE

• levelled and decodable readers

KREYOL VOCABULARY

THE TOOLBOX

DEPLOY TO

ILOOMINATE.ORG

HTML5 STORYBOOK

* when USAID sent us Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, and Khmer translations

we were ready in one day

POLYGLOT.JS FROM AIRBNB

JQUERY.IME

• From Wikipedia!

• So many languages

• Bonus: I added a Marshallese keyboard!

CHROME APPS - GOOD?

SWITCH TO

http://electron.atom.io

COINCIDENTALLY…

SPECIAL FEATURES: ARABIC

I made a pull request to PBS KIDS to allow right-to-left books with option { “rtl”: true }

!

it is awesome !

PBS Kids did not act on it =(

SPECIAL FEATURES: ARABICtashkil | تَْشِكيل

أزرق

LASCAHOBAS

THE SCHOOL

THE TEACHERS

UNLEASH KIDS KIT

UNLEASH KIDS KIT

HARDWARE IS MESSY

MODIFYING ON-SITE

READING WITH KIDS

FINALISTS!

FUTURE

• Share knowledge with SIL + USAID

• We need a web reference:I have platform / database / library Xhow do I make it support Unicode?

• Sending an Unleash Kids kit to Afghanistan

FUTURE REFERENCE

• Support LANGuages at SlangGroup.org

• Add tips, tricks, quirks for different languages

CODE TO INSPIRE

Herat, Afghanistan

Q & A

• Ask here, ask after, or write to us:

• Nick: ndoiron@mapmeld.com / @mapmeld

• Sora: sora@unleashkids.org