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Bookshare without Borders: #3/3

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In this third installment of our blog series, I’d like to focus on that achievement and share some of what we learned throughout the process of creating Bookshare’s first offerings in Arabic. We’d also like to thank the Mada Center team for its great support throughout this process.

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SocialCoding4Good Going International with Random Hacks of Kindness

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Mifos, HP and SocialCoding4Good will have subject matter experts, technical leads and developer teams at RHoK Bangalore , Dublin and San Francisco , focusing on three key projects: Creating a mobile version of Mifos X , enabling information flows, processes and transactions to be completed via mobile.

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Team-Up for Textbooks: Volunteer to Help Students with Disabilities

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During this time, the process of making a textbook accessible can take from 8-12 weeks, with proofreading being the most time-intensive and costly component. However, students often don’t know what books they need until the first days of school—a hectic time when Bookshare receives thousands of book requests.

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DIAGRAM Center

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There had been a recommendation in the HTML 5 standards process to drop LONGDESC, that was greatly concerning to us. We're hearing a startling lack of sensitivity to accessibility in this process. With some of the other top leaders working on DIAGRAM, we need to inform the disability activists of this issue before it's too late!

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

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Process, clean, and transform data. Maintain and develop our team's automated data processing and analysis infrastructure (POSIX-environment command line tools built on bash, make, python, and R). What you will do: Write computer programs for human rights data analysis projects. Run data standardization and de-duplication.

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Read2Go Tops iTunes Literacy Charts!

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We also are just about through the process with the first major upgrade to Read2Go since its release, with a bunch of fixes and improvements requested by our users. The first one shows the Special Education category on iTunes, with the Read2Go logo being used to represent the Literacy and Learning section.

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Delivering Bestsellers to the Bookshare Community

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While publishers do donate thousands of digital texts to Bookshare, the NYT bestsellers are added to the collection through a "people process." During this process, Carrie tells the three of us proofreaders (I’m one of them) which books are available for review - and helps negotiate who will take which book.

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