Balboa Park En Espanol: Vote to help translate 15 San Diego cultural websites into Spanish

Pepsi is giving away millions this March to fund great ideas as part a new REFRESH EVERYTHING campaign – and Balboa Park is in the running! Balboa Park was selected as one of the 1,000 finalists for a $250,000 Pepsi grant to translate 15 park websites into Spanish. Voting launched today, March 1, 2010 http://pep.si/aNGC9N and lasts through March 31, 2010. The top two projects with the most votes at the end of the month win $250,000 in funding for their proposed project.

"Multilingual content is a top priority for all of the online properties in Balboa Park, because it translates directly into greater access and greater engagement,” says Balboa Park Online Collaborative Director (BPOC), Rich Cherry. “But we need everyone to vote to get this project off the ground. A collaborative effort by everyone in San Diego and everyone who’s ever enjoyed Balboa Park will get this idea in motion.”

Balboa Park receives approximately 10 Million visitors every year, and up to 52% of are Spanish speakers (based on a 2006 survey by Morey Group). Yet only a handful of the 85 institutions within the park have Spanish Language content available to the public online.

The Pepsi Refresh grant money would allow BPOC to hire four full-time English-to-Spanish translators to translate existing website content into Spanish at 15 Balboa Park museums, plus a Spanish-language blogger to create new content for the park’s main portal www.balboapark.org.

Get out the vote!

Comments

[Mike Santos]

Let this be done privately. Perhaps as a boyscout project. This is not a good way to spend this money...