Well, we at ACRA have been struggling with these weird character sets which are used to represent the special and unique sounds of our languages for nearly 8 years now, so it was to my great amazement that whilst at the “OpenRoad” conference in Melbourne that I come across an Australian company seemlingly smack bang in the middle of that task worldwide.
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Archive for May, 2008Keyman - multilingual keyboard solutionsFriday, May 16th, 2008 by adminFree ClipartFriday, May 16th, 2008 by adminWiliam Poser recently posted on ILAT a website collection of free clipart, I have done a quick search and easily found some Australian wildlife as an example, not the Koala, but others, so it maybe resourceful to some. Weblink: http://www.wpclipart.com Missing in Action - NeverFriday, May 16th, 2008 by adminWell its been a month since my last post and I am sorry that I have not been able to keep people up to date with happenings in the world of Aboriginal Languages and Technology, so I have some time to make up. At the end of April I was very fortunate to attend the 15th Stabilizing Indigenous Languages conference in Flagstff, Arizona, and what a conference it was. I learnt so much from this in many ways I’m still taking it all in. So expect more news of it soon. Currently I am in Melbourne at the “Openroad - Multilinguism and the Information Society” conference held at the State Library of Victoria, hosted by VicNet. I think I have that right. Well this conference is a bit daunting as I am the only Aboriginal person at it, but neverless our issues, challenges and successes are not just limited to our own languages but thers as well, so it is here as well that I am gaining more knowledge to help share with others and to assist in supporting our work further language maintenance. |
