Budget (10 November, 2004)

The Babels-Nomad budget was rediscussed in Porto Alegre during the different meetings in November. One of the drastic changes was that we reduced the number of rooms equipped for translation from 50 to 36. There would be 3 equipped rooms per Thematic Area (11 Areas in total = 3 x 11 rooms) and three equipped rooms in the Youth Camp (AIJ), for a total of 36 rooms.

We acknowledged the fact that there had been a fantastic mobilization of volunteer interpreters and translators in Latin America and Brazil for the WSF. But we also had to monitor the "quality" of these new volunteers.

It is useless to have thousands of volunteers if we cannot guarantee a good level of interpretation during the WSF. The quality of the interpretation determines the quality of the event itself. There are interesting discussions in the Babels Forum since July on this question: see discussions on ’quality’ (4000 viewers and 100 posts).

We will have "mixed booths": each booth will have one experienced interpreter, and one interpreter with less experience. Training sessions involving professional interpreters are organized every week in Peru, Colombia, Uruguay, Argentina, Rio da Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre, to assess the level of the non-experienced volunteers. These training sessions are not "classes": interpreting is a profession involving many skills, and which require long and systematic years of training. These sessions are more like a familiarization process, and help the different coordinations to assess the abilities of the volunteers.

With this in mind, we re-evaluated the number of people coming from different locations in order to guarantee a good quality level of interpretation, while taking into account the actual level of mobilization at this stage of the process (mid-November).

Please read the intermediary reports (this budget is not a stand-alone document) to compare the October budget with this final budget:
October budget.

The final budget below is the budget that was presented to the Brazilian Organizing Committee (BOC) and to the International Council, Program and Methodology Workgroups.

Please react and participate to the discussion by using the Babels Forum:
– EN Forum
– ES Forum
– FR Forum
– PT Forum

36 rooms	Cost	Number	Total (usd)
Travel Total		487	$236 000
Travel from POA	0	80	$0
Travel from Uruguay	100	50	$5 000
Travel from Argentina	200	50	$10 000
Travel from Sao Paulo	250	50	$12 500
Travel from Rio	250	60	$15 000
Travel Rest Brazil	600	50	$30 000
Total BRAZIL		240	$57 500
Travel from rest of the Americas	900	60	$54 000
Total Latin America		400	$126 500
Travel from Africa and Asia and Middle East	2500	15	$37 500
Travel from Europe / USA / Canada	1000	72	$72 000
BOOTH 36 rooms	Total			Comments
Total without Emergency	480
EN 48 booths	96
ES 60 Booths	120
FR 48 Booths	96
PT 72 booths	144
Other lang. 12 Booths	24
AR booth	2
DE booth	2
HE booth	2
HI Booth	2
IT booth	2
JA booth	2
KO booth	2
RU Booth	2
SW Booth	2
TH booth	2
TR Booth	2
WO Booth	2
36 rooms	Big room	Medium Room	Emergency
EN1	Morning + evening,
EN2	Afternoon		Morning
EN3		Morning + Evening
EN4			Afternoon
ES1	Morning + evening,
ES2	Afternoon		Morning
ES3		Morning + Evening
ES4		Afternoon	Evening
ES5			Morning
FR1	Morning + evening,
FR2	Afternoon		Morning
FR3		Afternoon + Evening
FR4			Afternoon
PT1	Morning + evening,
PT2	Afternoon		Morning
PT3		Morning	Afternoon
PT4		Afternoon	Morning
PT5
PT6			Evening
Other Lang	Morning + Afternoon + Evening

Budget (10 November, 2004)

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