Re: Vote : Do we need simultaneous interpretation

[Emily Chen <Emily Chen Sun COM>]

Hi Pockey,

You give a great suggestion to arrange English talks and Chinese talks 
simultaneously. This is a good solution. I will also try to mark each 
talk's preference language on the schedule tomorrow.

In this way we can save a big money to sponsor speakers.

-Emily

On 09/23/08 18:49, Pockey Lam wrote:
> Hi all,  
>
> Knowing that the budget is rather tight and the audiences are mainly
> Chinese, besides, we will have a few rooms giving talks / BOF at the
> same time. How about we schedule talks with at least 1 x Chinese and 1 x
> English at the same time? So that all foreigners who don't understand
> Chinese can go to those rooms with English speakers and visi versa. (the
> fact that it's not easy to have professional Gnome-based
> interpreters...)
>
> Then, we can arrange volunteers who understand Gnome and speak both
> language to standby at the venue, we can have their help anytime when
> necessary.  
>
> Like this, we can save the money for interpretations and spend the money
> on other more important things? :)
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers,
> Pockey
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 12:01 +0800, Pockey Lam wrote:
>   
> > Dear Brian, Emily, 
> >
> > Interpretation is a real job :) Not everybody who can speak both
> > languages or have Gnome background can do the job... as interpreters are
> > trained to listen and speak at the same time, that's why they usually
> > have very short memory, even if they missed one sentence, it shouldn't
> > affect the next sentence and so on. For non-professionals, it's very
> > very tough to do this. 
> >
> > Actually, BLUG co-organized Linux Developer Symposium in Feb and mainly
> > provides support for interpretation and translations.  It was really a
> > very technical conference, mainly talked about Linux kernel...
> >
> > For interpretation, we found them by interviewing some interpreters who
> > already had jobs related to technology conferences, then we provided
> > training to interpreters before the event, e.g. sending them
> > vocabularies with Chinese / English related to the event, sending them
> > all the slides earlier if possible, asking them to come 1 or 2 days in
> > advance to talk to all the speakers and go through all the slides once
> > with the speaker explaining them what they are going to present. 
> >
> > For translation, we have mainly 3 members doing the job e.g. for small
> > rooms workshop, press interviews with speakers, press conference, etc. I
> > found out it's quite tough for our members (who speak both languages
> > fluently and have technical background) to do even translations, i.e.
> > (translate after the speakers finish his sentences). Even-though some do
> > a good job, some audiences and speakers were bored as it takes time to
> > translate after each sentences. Besides, one of our members forgot what
> > the speakers said a few times during the speech, it was rather
> > embarrassing... 
> >
> > Hence, if our main audiences are Chinese and budget is tight, maybe we
> > should give up the idea of interpretation? 
> >
> > If we do have needs and budget allows, :) maybe we should go for
> > interpreters. I can help to arrange the interviews for Emily and other
> > GNOME experts, then you can pick the ones and give them training in
> > advance. 
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Pockey
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 14:08 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote:
> >     
> > > Emily:
> > >
> > >       
> > > > I would like to get feedback from every committee member about "*simultaneous 
> > > > interpretation*". From your opinion, do you think simultaneous interpretation is 
> > > > necessary?
> > > > Currently, the venue in BUAA support simultaneous interpretation which means 
> > > > they can provide the devices for simultaneous interpretation.
> > > >
> > > > The cost for simultaneous interpretation is
> > > > Devices: 6000 * 2 days = 12000RMB
> > > > Fee for interpretors : One person one day :  10000RMB
> > > >         
> > > I wouldn't think that interpretors provided by a service would be able
> > > to easily translate technical terminology.  It wouldn't work so well if
> > > the translators don't already have an understanding of GNOME and the
> > > GNOME community since these will be the topics.
> > >
> > > Couldn't people from the GNOME community who already work at Sun
> > > volunteer to do translation?  This would avoid having to pay fees, and
> > > the people would likely be better able to translate what people are
> > > saying.
> > >
> > > Brian
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