By Martin Benjamin | Executive Director
The biggest Kamusi news of the quarter is that we have received a grant, from a foundation that wishes to remain anonymous, to launch a project called "Digital Yiddish". This will fund about 20% of our operating costs for the next three years - so we are still scrambling to finance other languages, but at least we know we'll be able to make headway in one direction.
We are also about to launch service in French. The data is imperfect, but we've decided that it is better to make it public and improve it as we go, rather than keep it offline until it is great, because not having French has been preventing too many people from using our resources in Africa and Europe.
A few projects in the lab look like they should launch in the nearest future, but I've learned not to predict release dates. As teasers:
• A picture is worth a thousand words
• WeChat is used by 900 million people in China. Kamusi has 100,000 terms in Chinese. WeChat supports bot technology that is similar to what we have launched on Facebook. !
I'll leave the news brief this quarter, and invite you to see what's going on behind the scenes by looking at our whiteboard: http://bit.ly/kamusilabs
Happy Year of the Dog!
Martin
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