tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242339492011-07-28T23:35:28.133-04:00<b>Adapting computers to cultures (Not the other way around).</b><br><br> Preservation of languages and cultures of the World.Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.comBlogger591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-56674957958749776462010-01-17T12:06:00.002-05:002010-01-17T12:12:37.075-05:00

Unicode has been a hot topic for the past few years. Yet, many organizations still hesitate to move to Unicode, mainly because they have a huge collection of archives and documents, and they don't have the right tools to do just that.Good news: we have those tools, and ever better, we have the required expertise to develop new tools. Attached is an example of batch transcoding of a language

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-35828395816562449942009-12-04T21:36:00.001-05:002010-01-17T12:21:35.007-05:00

For the third year in a row, we have had a great pleasure to expose our language preservation process and tools. We thank all our visitors, coming from various parts of the world (by the way, language preservation is a worldwide topic - right?)

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-81261623781972621302009-08-11T11:36:00.000-04:002010-01-17T12:01:07.519-05:00

What does that mean? Well... bad luck for languages that use a non-Roman writing system. Lots of syllabic fonts are based on remapping the roman symbols to syllabic symbols. That means that letter 'a' becomes one syllabic symbol, 'b' another one, etc.Text processing is based on rules. Let's consider wordwrapping: in English, you can split 'dual-purpose' on two lines: 'dual-', then new line, then

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-59293056412448300002009-03-17T11:20:00.004-04:002010-01-17T11:36:07.512-05:00

Question: How to transliterate a database from Roman to Syllabics?Answer: call us ASAP!We have completed the development of a roman-to-syllabics transliterator. Well, the project was to transliterate a FileMaker database containing traditional placenames from Roman alphabet to non-Unicode Syllabics and Unicode Syllabics. Our new application actually does more than just transliterating: it is able

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-11852868092304218102008-11-17T15:40:00.003-05:002010-03-07T17:49:20.625-05:00

The yearly AILIA showcase offers a unique opportunity to all actors of the language industry to meet, share experiences, and promote their projects.Taking part in this showcase has been a tradition for us now.Be welcome on our booth next year!

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-5298124952549070042008-11-16T02:03:00.002-05:002008-11-16T02:12:04.982-05:00

We developed a FileMaker plug-in for a client's database project. It allows for sorting words according to the Inuktitut syllabarium. Roman alphabet is ordered as "a/b/c/d", whereas the Inuktitut syllabarium is ordered as "ai/i/u/a/pai/pi/pu/pa...".In order to provide a faithful and useful list of words (lexicon, dictionary, thesaurus...) it is crucial that the traditional sort order of the

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-10743863867400752132008-10-22T01:43:00.001-04:002008-11-16T01:52:15.439-05:00

Is there anything we can do against that modern plague that contributes to endangering the languages of our world, called "language shift" (see our post below on language shift)?One possible path to a better future for language diversity is "reverse language shift", abbreviated as RLS.Joshua A. Fishman wrote a 415-page book that became a reference in the field, it is available on Google Books

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-37142486998519637512008-09-09T01:55:00.003-04:002010-03-07T17:36:21.913-05:00

We are currently working on a trilingual dictionary (Inuktitut, French, English) for a client. Our job is to sort a pretty huge amount of data in both syllabics and roman alphabet, preprocess it, filter it, do some transcoding and translitteration as well, merge the three languages so that each dictionary entry is in the three languages and can be search as such. Icing on the cake, we'll provide

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-40222858138398123902008-08-17T06:12:00.002-04:002008-08-17T06:14:47.053-04:00

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on the International Day of the World's Indigenous People, August 9, 2008 called on States, indigenous peoples, the UN system and all relevant actors to take immediate steps to protect and promote endangered languages.More

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-42493889977825266302008-06-29T17:20:00.001-04:002010-03-07T17:30:52.957-05:00

This was an honor to present our technology and process for preserving languages, at this historical event held in Quebec City. Our partnership with SAT gave us the pleasure to hold our booth in the Satosphere, a wonderful immersive environment designed and developed by SAT, dubbed Domagaya for the celebration.Our booth had a lot of attendance of visitors from various countries and cultures.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-73173768585909231292008-06-07T11:20:00.002-04:002008-06-07T11:23:18.955-04:00

The Ainu celebrated a historic moment Friday as the Diet unanimously passed a resolution that recognizes them as indigenous people of Japan.The unprecedented resolution was adopted by both chambers, acknowledging the Ainu's hardships from discrimination and poverty."This is a historical event for us because the past injustices were finally put to an end," said Tadashi Kato, chairman of the Ainu

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-13865594799392568292008-05-16T01:36:00.003-04:002008-11-16T01:52:58.632-05:00

Wikipedia has a brief article on a key concept for language preservation and revitalization.Language shift, sometimes referred to as language transfer or language replacement or assimilation, is the progressive process whereby a speech community of a language shifts to speaking another language. The rate of assimilation is the percentage of... (More)

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-88905224837144152152008-04-18T22:20:00.001-04:002008-04-26T01:48:53.355-04:00

As always, the team of Land Insights is busy promoting and sharing on Native cultures. They invited us to a sneak preview of what is coming up for this year's edition of First Peoples' Festival. André Dudemaine is just explaining that to us on the picture here.Also, this is another tradition in this yearly preview, artists join the event and do performances. Today we had Mike (he sang a blues in

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-20078411047192870352008-03-11T12:56:00.002-04:002008-03-15T13:14:19.680-04:00

For the past four years our tools (both hardware and software) have become more and more popular. No wonder. We are the only organization that is ready to invest as much time as required into R&D for endangered languages. We love working on any language, without any limitation on its linguistic features or on its speaker base...We capitalize on everything we create. We do reutilization of our own

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-42161726489378827622008-02-22T14:24:00.002-05:002008-04-01T14:43:50.175-04:00

This is some info I'd like to share with you here. This declaration was signed in Barcelona in June 1996. It is a very well-structured document, starting with a reference to another famous DeclarationHaving regard to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights which, in its preamble, expresses its «faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-67552671518672886592008-01-01T14:33:00.000-05:002008-04-01T14:39:15.965-04:00

Happy New Year to all our clients, partners, and brothers/sisters in language preservation.This year again, NunaSoft will allocate the most part of its profits to language preservation, on its three axis of research :- hardware keyboards ;- software ;- coaching.This is just the logical continuation of our long-term strategy for helping linguistic communities that are interested in preserving

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-52899661893957345882007-12-31T14:16:00.000-05:002007-12-31T14:18:25.830-05:00

The year 2008 has been proclaimed International Year of Languages by the United Nations General Assembly. UNESCO, which has been entrusted with the task of coordinating activities for the Year, is determined to fulfil its role as lead agencyMore

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-82359653585954978582007-11-30T00:40:00.000-05:002007-12-02T00:59:34.182-05:00

As expected, this fair was a great event of the Canadian language industry. The success of our booth exceeded our expectations. We met all sort of actors of the industry, in those three main areas: translation, education and technology. More than a networking event, this exhibition left us with the very positive impression that:we are part of an industry which has a clear ambition;we are members

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-51076274538654651032007-10-13T02:38:00.000-04:002007-10-14T02:47:01.541-04:00

This is a wonderful project. We've seen them start 3 years ago, and we've seen their dedication for Aboriginal cultures. Since 2004, the Wapikoni Mobile has been travelling around 11 Aboriginal communities in remote areas of Quebec. A veritable herd of nomadic artists, Wapikoni Mobile has offered digital technology training to 650 young people from the Algonquin, Atikamekw, Cree, Innu and Mohawk

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-67195135742749206862007-09-13T02:25:00.000-04:002007-10-14T02:42:42.898-04:00

We are proud members of AILIA, the Language Industry Association. Its mission is to promote and increase the competitiveness of the Canadian language industry nationally and internationally through advocacy, accreditation and information sharing. AILIA's defined a Technology Roadmap, whose mandate is to establish a technology strategy for the language industry as a whole that will contribute to

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-77715138137941087482007-08-03T02:07:00.000-04:002007-10-13T01:40:53.547-04:00

While I was in Yukon, I had a chance to participate in a telepresence session with SAT in Montreal. On the right-hand side of the first photo, you can see René from SAT with his mike, and on the left, here I am, speaking with René and a bunch of his guests. On the second picture, you see René handing the mike to a guest from Thailand! The network connection was very good, and we had a nice user

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-2335732294580311392007-07-31T01:54:00.000-04:002007-10-13T01:41:23.083-04:00

This is a great honor for us that the Government of the Selkirk First Nation has invited us to their community. We will apply our LPP (Language Preservation Process) in order to coach some community members on preserving Northern Tutchone. You can see a few pictures from Yukon, as well as a traditional fishing net of the community. I was lucky enough to be invited on a fishing camp: we were able

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-64631182069254954762007-06-22T01:38:00.000-04:002007-10-13T01:43:05.361-04:00

This year again, we took part in this outstanding festival. Attached photos show the booth we had at NFB and also at SAT. There's also a fish-eye view of the outdoor events at Parc Emilie-Gamelin downtown Montréal, and a picture of a traditional workbench for woodwork.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-21625941826749563542007-05-21T16:33:00.000-04:002007-12-31T14:20:06.497-05:00

That's quite an exciting news... This was Austria's idea to promote 2008 as such, at UNESCO's 33rd General Conference in Paris. The UN General Assembly will aim to promote unity through linguistic diversity. The Assembly called upon States and the Secretariat to work towards the conservation and defence of the world's languages and requested the Secretariat to appoint a coordinator for

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-64291402826316377692007-04-17T23:48:00.000-04:002007-10-13T01:44:39.864-04:00

What an outstanding event! And another example how some very motivated and brilliant people can do wonders with limited funding...I presented a paper titled “Technology: a double-edged sword for endangered languages of Native America”. The multidisciplinarity of this paper brought its share of challenges:talking about languages to an audience mainly consisting of Natives, expert in their language

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-65233142428462986672007-03-03T14:27:00.000-05:002007-10-13T02:37:12.340-04:00

This Center is also known as CAIL. It is based on the campus of the University of Utah, SLC. Yet another team of brilliant researchers, teachers and students. Their linguistic works are definitely targeted on language preservation. They do a yearly conference. Guess what? I'll be presenting a paper there, about our R&D in technology for language preservation.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-77578765792401755602007-02-09T22:00:00.000-05:002007-10-13T01:45:37.122-04:00

André Dudemaine and Christine Sioui are unveiling the official poster for 2007' edition of First Peoples' Festival. We had the opportunity to listen to Coyotzin's beautiful, peaceful and gracious music. He made several of his instruments himself. His 3rd CD has just been released. The audience had fun listening to Comicmac, a humorist from the Micmac Nation in Québec; his style is very original,

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-904412368742011282007-01-30T14:15:00.000-05:002007-10-13T01:46:04.081-04:00

We were honored that APTN broadcast in their National News a report on our technologies yesterday at prime time and today at noon. We had an outstanding feedback from throughout Canada. People are encouraging us and show interest in building projects with us. Both an honor and a pleasure for us.The video is available there:- in Real Media format : http://www.nunasoft.com/press/aptn_30_01_2007.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-91582864862573669622006-12-22T02:54:00.000-05:002007-10-06T02:57:09.957-04:00

It is a tradition now. Every year, we reinject a significant part of our profits into Research & Development on language preservation. And years passing prove it is a good tradition: all the projects that Aboriginal communities gave us are an enchantment. Expect exciting new development in 2007!

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-88636194573672100092006-11-06T02:46:00.000-05:002007-10-06T02:50:52.712-04:00

We've been working hard on it for the past two years. Now it's pretty well structured. It's basically a multidisciplinary approach to language preservation: it provides a methodology, a toolbox, and a supervision based on coaching (rather than teaching). Stay tuned.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-1166657074035025262006-10-27T18:18:00.000-04:002007-10-13T01:46:27.417-04:00

I was happy enough to present our technologies at FEL X "Vital Voices" in Mysore, India. Besides getting very encouraging feedback from participants, we were honored to meet a panel of experts in linguistics and language preservation. What a great event this was!

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-1169327927449366012006-09-26T16:12:00.000-04:002007-10-13T01:46:45.554-04:00

Don't miss this conference at UQAM in Montreal. Organized by "Centre d’études sur le droit international et la mondialisation (CEDIM)" with the collaboration of "Droits et Démocratie". With:- Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Rapporteur spécial des Nations Unies sur les droits de l’homme et libertés fondamentales des peuples autochtones- Vicky Tauli Corpuz, Présidente de l’Instance permanente de l’ONU sur les

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-1151953412662924412006-07-03T15:00:00.000-04:002007-10-13T02:09:05.792-04:00

After more than 20 years in the pipeline, the Universal Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was finally approved on June 29. More.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-1151648556537379822006-06-30T02:16:00.000-04:002007-10-13T02:08:51.055-04:00

There we are. At last. Our site is now available in Spanish. As we've been making lots of promising contacts with Aboriginals from South America, it was sort of "a duty" for us to have a Spanish version of our site so as to be accessible to more people (and peoples). When we say "more", we do mean "more", like a few hundreds of millions of surfers del Sur!

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-1151381505439171582006-06-21T19:02:00.000-04:002007-10-13T02:08:30.954-04:00

Mr Saladin d'Anglure is an internationally recognized expert and pioneer in Inuit studies. Besides being fluent in Inuktitut, he has dedicated his life as an anthropologist to the Inuit culture. I had a chance to:buy his latest book Naître et renaître Inuit, homme, femme ou chamane and get an autograph;converse with him about what we do as a technology company for Inuktitut.He had heard about us

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-1151380863240795542006-06-21T11:44:00.000-04:002007-10-13T02:08:19.649-04:00

After a two-week break, the Festival settles for 5 more days in the Parc Emilie Gamelin, downtown Montreal. Just like previous years. First pictures show Festival's Director André Dudemaine, from LandInSights with Chief Obomsawin, and then with Mr Geoffrey Kelley, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs. Last photo show traditional clay pipes. Well, reproductions of clay pipes, made with passion by an

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-1150522585612228332006-06-08T01:29:00.000-04:002007-10-13T02:07:57.123-04:00

SAT and LandInsights have this magic touch when it comes to organizing outstanding events. This was the last day of the first part of First Peoples' Festival here in Montreal. National Film Board was a partner (among others) of this first part. We had a chance to see very good movies from various Aboriginal Nations from North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australia. Last but not least,

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-1149393437258664492006-06-05T23:51:00.000-04:002007-10-13T02:07:44.403-04:00

We have a booth at ONF/NFB (Office National du Film/National Film Board) on St-Denis @ De Maisonneuve from May 26 thru June 7. Come and see us. We'll show you our new borns. Hardware keyboards for Cree, Blackfoot and Cherokee. Déné coming up soon. So far, visitors' feedback is very positive and extremely encouraging. Our Inuktitut keyboard, Inuktitut transliterator and Inuktitut transcoder

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-1149566949376171192006-06-04T00:03:00.000-04:002007-10-13T02:07:25.300-04:00

This was hosted by McCord Museum here in Montreal. The venue was packed. Alanis Obomsawin is opening the event. Needless to say, this ceremony is very well appreciated by both the audience and the artists. What's more, it give a good overview of the movies (the "big picture", just for the 'pun' of it :-) that are played at National Film Board during the festival.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-1148961592765652262006-05-29T23:59:00.000-04:002006-05-29T23:59:52.800-04:00

Dated today, available on LapresseAffaires.comBy Nelson Dumais

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-1148967573221424882006-05-14T01:31:00.000-04:002007-10-13T02:07:06.899-04:00

My Dear Friend Sky performed on stage at the Spectrum, in the first part of Xavier Rudd's show tonight. She first moved the whole audience (venue was total packed), and then simply set it on fire. I was there, so you can trust me.Second performer was an outstanding didgeridoo player from Australia. He did set the audience on fire as well. Unbelievable was the variety of sounds he was able to make

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-1149144199518570272006-04-26T02:38:00.000-04:002007-10-13T02:06:51.027-04:00

It was a pleasure getting on board this project of book on Tivi Etok: "The world of Tivi Etok". Our mission was to coordinate media gathering and prepare the detailed printing instructions for the printing company. We can't wait to see this book in its final, off-the-shelf printed version.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-1150431943782177632006-03-15T00:08:00.000-05:002007-10-13T02:06:37.447-04:00

That was a great 5th forum organized by Aboriginal Canada Portal, with the contribution of ITK and several other organizations, held from March 13 to 14, 2006 at the Government Conference Center in Ottawa. It was incredibly intense: conferences, workshops, presentations, brainstorming... Those 2 days seemed like a whole working week! Anyway... we met interesting people of all over Canada. Before

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-1150132151480644812006-03-02T13:01:00.000-05:002007-10-13T02:06:00.586-04:00

We had a new job to do for our beloved client Projets Autochtones du Québec - aka PAQ - or, if you read English ;) "Aboriginal Projects of Quebec". For several months, they gave a workshop to train young persons on journalism. Thanks to the coordination and dedication of PAQ's team, and thanks to the great interest and energy that the Youth put into this project, the result demonstrate how

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-1149052394261137702006-02-16T01:04:00.000-05:002007-10-13T02:05:40.872-04:00

We're really proud to collaborate with Avataq team on this project. We'll be in charge of - guess what - technology. Goal is to create a multimedia product based on a story told by Mary Pootoogee, an Inuk Elder. It tells a lot about the harshness of life that the Inuit people had to cope with no so long ago. Avataq wants to get the message across to the Youth that their ancestors had to face huge

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-1150133173053266642006-01-24T13:18:00.000-05:002007-10-13T02:06:22.373-04:00

As many non-profit organizations, part of their job is to search and find cost-efficient solutions. NunaSoft is committed to contributing to the community of technology users, and the fact that NPO's are sometimes short on budget does NOT mean we're not going to help them. It is in conformity with this vision that we offered free/no-catch/no-sneaky-clause/purely-friendly hosting to Projets

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-1149660834365706272006-01-01T01:49:00.000-05:002007-01-09T16:49:14.140-05:00

After a stay of 2 days in Puno, we took the boat and visited the Uros. This people has been living on islands they make themselves with reed. They actually use reed for many things: boats, houses, furniture, and food (we tried it! Taste is not strong, but there's lots of great nutriments inside). Given that their tradition has been going on for several millenia, no doubt it's a healthy life.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-1149661333523710772005-12-06T02:18:00.000-05:002006-06-07T02:29:30.096-04:00

What an exceptional day. A lot was said, and argumented, about global warming, which affects a lot the lifes of peoples living in the North.You can see on those pictures participants from circumpolar countries, cultures and traditions: Canada (Northwest Territories and Nunavut), Russia and Finland. In spite of all their specificities, circumpolar peoples share this deep and strong respect for

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688248822691850368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24233949.post-1150262490443032552005-11-26T01:12:00.000-05:002006-07-15T01:29:51.983-04:00

I received an email from someone working with the government of Nunavut. This person gave us positive - thus encouraging - feedback on our online tools. He also suggested an improvement for our realtime Inuktitut transliterator. That's the kind of email I love to read, because:a) this let us hear from people who use our tools;b) this helps us improve our knowledge of the languages we are working

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InuktiChat Our presentation at Québec's Culture day had an article in the event's magazine. (biggest pic is our booth)French developer Éric Poncet of Nunasoft presented the very first 100% Inuktitut chat system based on the InuktiBoard, a unique keyboard specially created for the Inuit language. In collaboration with

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Preserving Inuktitut syllabics one key (one touch) at a timeNWT's most popular Francophone newspaper published an article on our current and future projects. Want to brush up on your French? Read on...By Batiste W. Foisy

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A Powwow organized by the Native Friendship Center of Montréal.We were among the many visitors at the powwow. Eric got off the plane back from Europe and rushed straight to Cabot square. The team of the Native Frienship Center of Montréal did an amazing job, and so did all the participants. In spite of a sneaky rain, we really enjoyed ourselves. Outstanding dress Visitors are welcome to join

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Given that people who visited our booths loved our first keyboards, we believe we're one the right track to designing input devices for Aboriginal languages. We've added a few keys, including the magic font-switch key that saves a bunch of mouse-clicks when your Aboriginal or Roman font is deep down in the dropdown list of fonts in Word, Excel... We love making life easier for computer users.

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I really enjoyed the event. Honestly, I deserved it: it took me two hours biking from Montreal! We're happy to publish some pix for you. That was another great event to discover and share First Nations' ancestral traditions. The Mohawks from Kahnawake offered us a superb powwow. Craftspersons were there of course.We look forward to attending next year's powwow... And here's a nice greeting of

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NunaSoft contributes to the preservation of the Inuit cultureWe had an article in Le Lien multimédia. It's right there. By Nicolas Perrin.

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This one was published after our presentation for National Aboriginal Day.Read it.

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A big "thank you" to LAND InSIGHTS for organizing such a fantastic event. It is a great time to meet First Peoples and discover their cultures, traditions, arts and histories. We had the pleasure to meet fine artists and outstanding craftspersons, coming from various areas spanning Northern Canada to South America. By the way... we're pleased to show you some of the superb pieces of work we

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We unveiled our InuktiChat, a pure-Inuktitut chat system. People in the audience were unanimously enthusiastic. Some of them even told us they were moved by the human dimension of our projects. Read on...InuktiChat :: unveilingTuesday, June 21, 2005 - 2pm - Free admission As part of the National Aboriginal Day, launched by the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, NunaSoft and

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Our upcoming InuktiChat presentation at SAT for 2005' National Aboriginal Day was advertized by Alliance NumériQC.

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