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M. Á. Oxlaj Kumez: I have no sympathy for you. You play the victim and complain ceaselessly to foreign journalists. Be the change you want to see in the world!
by bmn__ 7y ago
M. Á. Oxlaj Kumez: I have no sympathy for you. You play the victim and complain ceaselessly to foreign journalists. Be the change you want to see in the world!
Let's imagine a different universe where the interviewee can proudly recount his achievements:
• Added a megabyte of Kaqchikel text content on the Web.
• Contributed a 1st party Kaqchikel keyboard layout to Xkb and a 3rd party layout to Android and Windows.
• Published a free to use Kaqchikel dictionary and spell checker.
• Worked with the Linux user groups in the four biggest cities to add a Kaqchikel locale pack to KDE, and spin a variant of an existing popular distro that comes with Kaqchikel out of the box.
• Distributed ten thousand kits to convert Mesoamerican Spanish keyboards into Kaqchikel.
• Found like-minded individuals and raised funds and coordinated efforts through the Kaqchikel resource centre at the university in Guatemala City.
• Lobbied the government to give indigenous languages equal status under the law.
None of this is particularly technically challenging: Kaqchikel is written in Latin.
- kome 7y agosorry, but pointing at a problem is the right way to go. You are basically angry he is not a technologist. but that's more your problem than his problem. Also: "Oxlaj Kumez is working with other activists to create a version of Wikipedia in Kaqchikel Mayan, as well as a translated version of Mozilla’s Firefox web browser." So, he tries to do whatever he can. And perhaps he has also a life and a real job. I didn't know him and i have no axe to grind. i just find you reaction very weird and overly aggressive.
- bmn__ 7y ago> You are basically angry […] i just find you reaction very weird and overly aggressive. False, you chose to interpret my post that way. > not a technologist This is relevant to two points out of seven, both of which he could just delegate and oversee. I am disappointed in the substandard level of discourse you bring into this thread. The site rules prevent me from speaking my mind any further, so I'm out of here.
- kome 7y agothanks :)