Presenting our app at the 2015 Unicode Conference

1. -ILOOMINATE-
Authoring eBooks in Multiple Languages
Nick Doiron, Asia Foundation
Sora Edwards-Thro, College of William & Mary

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

4. NEED IN HAITI

5. Ecole Shalom
Croix-des-Bouquets
Fall 2011

6. LITERACY IN HAITI

7. THE EDUCATION SIDE
• levelled and decodable readers

8. KREYOLVOCABULARY

9. THETOOLBOX

10. DEPLOYTO

11. ILOOMINATE.ORG

12. HTML5 STORYBOOK

13. * when USAID sent us
Amharic,Arabic, Bengali, and Khmer translations
we were ready
in one day

14. POLYGLOT.JS FROM AIRBNB

15. JQUERY.IME
• From Wikipedia!
• So many languages
• Bonus: I added a
Marshallese
keyboard!

16. CHROME APPS - GOOD?

17. SWITCHTO
http://electron.atom.io

18. COINCIDENTALLY…

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 =(

20. SPECIAL FEATURES:ARABIC
tashkil | ‫يل‬ِ‫ك‬ ْ‫ش‬َ‫ت‬
‫أزرق‬

21. LASCAHOBAS

22. THE SCHOOL

23. THETEACHERS

24. UNLEASH KIDS KIT

25. UNLEASH KIDS KIT

26. HARDWARE
IS MESSY

27. MODIFYING ON-SITE

28. READING WITH KIDS

29. FINALISTS!

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

32. CODETO INSPIRE
Herat,Afghanistan

33. Q & A
• Ask here, ask after, or write to us:
• Nick: ndoiron@mapmeld.com / @mapmeld
• Sora: sora@unleashkids.org