[imc-tech-solidarity] PLEASE CHECK: ecuador computer distro criteria

[hendrix]

Era 04/11/2002 16:34:17 cuando "Neil O'Mahony" dijo:

>Regional Creiteria

>To be more specific, last week it was decided in the indymedia
>latinamerican (?) meeting that, because of the complications involved, the

indymedia latina = latin-american IMCs group
I think there's no need to translate.

>item of the computer donations to Ecuador is a project that should be 
>addressed to that region and not to all the imc's in Latin America. That 
>is, as regards the importation of these first 230 computers, we're talking 
>about a project coordinated between Ecuador, Colombia and Peru (and maybe 
>Bolivia).
>
>THAT IDEA'S NOT VERY CLEAR TO THIS TRANSLATOR, PERHAPS SOMEONE ELSE COULD 
>HAVE A LOOK AT IT?

maybe:
"...regarding the importation of these first 230 computers, the project 
should be coordinated by..."
Is that better?

...

>terrorism. As well, we need to think about the future: (1) governments are 
>going to put more obstacles (PLEASE CHECK TRANSLATION OF "PILA") at some 
>stage in the path of these kinds of projects (2) because of the needs of 

in this case: pila = battery
The phrase derives from the common use of "ponerse las pilas" which refers to 
"put more energy/effort" into something.