Project to Create Free Software in Quechua
Runasimipi
Introduction
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manifesto
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AbiWord
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Version
Edubuntu
Claroline
Quechua Dictionaries
Computer Dictionary
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hunspell
instrans
formafx
Spreading Usage
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Our CD
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Right now we have more than 250 people subscribed to our email list in runasimi@somoslibres.org.
If you want to collaborate in our project, you can subscribe
here.
Institutions collaborating in our project:
- Universidad
Nacional de Micaela Bastidas de Apurimac (UNAMBA)
A group of professors of computer science and linguistics are working to create a translation of AbiWord and create a Quechua dictionary of computer terminology. Contact person at UNAMBA:
Daniel Yucra Sotomayor (see below) -
La Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua (AMLQ)
We are collaborating with them to copy the words in their dictionary for our spell-checker. They are also going to help us with publicizing our project in Cusco. Contact person at AMLQ:
Alejandrino Valdeinglesias M.
email: alejovm28 AT hotmail DOT com
email: waychu AT amlquechua DOT org
People collaborating in our project:
- Daniel Alejandro Yucra Sotomayor of somoslibres.org
teaches computer science at UNAMBA. He is creating the web
page
for the quechua dictionary of computer terminology. To contact him::
email: danielyucra AT gmail DOT com
tel: 083-9600648 (celular)
- Manuel Ibarra is a professor of computer science
at UNAMBA. He is collaborating in the translation of AbiWord
in
the Runasimi of Apurimac. To contact him:
Manuel Ibarra
Av. Panama 508
Abancay, Perú
tel: 9615370 (celular)
tel: 323659 (house)
email: ccimanuel AT hotmail DOT com
- Apolinario (Yaku)
Saldívar is a professors of Quechua linguistics in UNAMBA.
He is collaborating in the translation of AbiWord in the
Runasimi
of Apurimac. To contact him:
Apolinario Ciriaco Saldívar Bolívar
Jr. Santa Rosa 114
Abancay, Perú
email: yakusal AT yahoo DOT es
tel: 083-9616100 (celular) -
Hugo D. Calderon teaches computer science at UNAMBA. He donated the space in his server for the web site www.runasimipi.org ¡Thank you Hugo! To contact him:
email: hdcalderon AT hotmail DOT com - Miguel Nuñez del Prado is a student at the Universidad Andina del Cusco. He is organizing support for our project in
Cusco. To contact him:
email: migueln AT hotmail DOT com
tel: 9784420 (celular)
tel: 25-40-31 (house)
- Maria Elena Pozo did the original translation
of Abiword in the Southern Bolivian Quechua. She teaches
Quechua
in the law department at the Universidad de San Francisco Xavier de
Sucre. In addition she gives private Quechua classes at any level.
To contact her:
Maria Elena Pozo Tapia
Calle Nataniel Aguirre #449
Sucre - Bolivia
email: marielenapozo AT yahoo DOT es
tel: 64-41802
- Kevin
Patrick Scannell is a professor of computation at Saint
Louis University in Missouri, USA. He created An
Crúbadán, a compiler of words
for minority languages like Quechua for creating spell-checkers.
He also transformed the Southern Bolivian Quechua ispell dictionary to
use it with aspell.
- Amos Batto
has a MA in Latin American history from Indiana University where
he studied nation-making and campesino movements in the early
Bolivian republic. Currently, he is in Peru trying to promote the
creation of free software in Quechua. He created the Southern
Bolivian Quechua ispell dictionary and helped with the
technical
aspects of the AbiWord translation. To contact him:
Amos Becker Batto
636 E. Seminary St.
Greencastle, IN 46135
USA
email: amosbatto AT yahoo DOT com
email: abatto AT indiana DOT edu
web: http://www.ciber-runa.net/ab
blog: http://www.ciber-runa.net/serendipity
tel: (765)653-7411
Last Updated: Fri, 17 Oct 2008