2. OVERVIEW
• Enabling Writers Challenge
• Challenges and Resources for Haiti
• Choosing a tech stack
• Building a multilingual, multi-script app
• The offline, off-grid workshop in Lascahobas
3. ALL CHILDREN READING
“Enabling Writers”
from USAID,WorldVision
!
eBook authoring app
free / open source
cross-platform
offline
Latin,Arabic, Devanagari
19. SPECIAL FEATURES:ARABIC
I made a pull request to PBS KIDS
to allow right-to-left books
with option { “rtl”: true }
!
it is awesome
!
PBS Kids did not act on it =(
30. FUTURE
• Share knowledge with SIL + USAID
• We need a web reference:
I have platform / database / library X
how do I make it support Unicode?
• Sending an Unleash Kids kit to Afghanistan
31. FUTURE REFERENCE
• Support LANGuages at SlangGroup.org
• Add tips, tricks, quirks for different languages