Maria Moreno-Rollins |
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Dear Linguist List Subscribers, As you all know, the main reason for having a Fund Drive each year is to raise money to support graduate students going through their MA studies. This support also allows them to prepare to be highly qualified linguists when leaving our office and join the rest of you out there doing the magnificent work you all do. The money raised is used to support the student editors who work at LINGUIST and help facilitate and improve all the services that LINGUIST has been able to provide to you for free for so many years! During my years at LINGUIST and with your donations during past Fund Drives, I have been able to: - Finish my undergraduate studies in Linguistics and TESOL. - Complete my MA in Linguistics - Learn to digitize Mocoví data using ELAN - Transcribe and translate Mocoví data collected in northern Argentina - Learn programming to maintain and develop existing and new areas of the LINGUIST List site such as the publications area, review discussion area, and more - Help develop a new and free service for conference organizers to accept and review abstracts called EasyAbs (http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/) - Lead the Publications team for two years to provide more information about books, journals and TOCs to all users, while attracting new publishers as supporters to LINGUIST and providers of more linguistic publications. - Develop the Cambridge Extra magazine, which allows all users to read full articles, receive discounts and enter into contests to win CUP merchandise (http://linguistlist.org/pubs/cupmag/index.cfm). - Learn what it entails to lead a Fund Drive in all its different aspects - Organize workshops held at the LINGUIST List office to provide contact between students and linguists who are working on related projects. - Attend several conferences, such as MLS, LSA and more. - Direct the Linguist list fixes team, which reviews the Linguist site to keep it current and working properly while also trying to develop new areas that will be of use to all subscribers and users. - Lead the Quality Control team, which is solely devoted to test all changes to the Linguist site, looking for problems in the pages, code and also browsers, so that the LINGUIST List site is always available to you. - Develop the website for the 2007 North American Computational Linguistic Olympiad (NAMCLO) (http://namclo.linguistlist.org/). - Learn to be a team leader for several teams at LINGUIST, which includes learning organizational skill, planning of the projects and tasks to perform, assignment of tasks, problem solving of issues that raise with tasks and between team members, among others. - Participate in the development of grant proposals for projects that LINGUIST is working on, which will allow me to one day write my own! - Learn about the best ways in which data is stored and collected to be able to preserve it and make it available to other people. View these at: http://emeld.org/school/index.html - Participate in the LEGO grant that LINGUIST is working on at this time, to digitize various dictionaries and make them available to the public. But most of all, it allowed me to go through my studies in Linguistics with the certainty and confidence that while I was getting the contributions from all of you to support me, I was also doing something to give back to the linguistics community by working for LINGUIST. Providing you with information that is useful and sometimes essential to users, such as articles or books needed for classes or research, job postings for those looking for a new job or their "first" job, conferences where people can submit research papers, and many others, allow me to say thank you for supporting me and my studies every time you donated to LINGUIST. I know that this is true for each person who works here. Most people have not only been able to do things similar to what I have done so far, but also experience the field of linguistics in many ways. While attending conferences and corresponding with submitters, we are able to be in contact with prominent linguists today. We would not be able to do such things without your contributions and donations. I will one day leave LINGUIST with a very rich legacy that will last my entire lifetime. Many other students will come after me year after year who will benefit from the same things I have. Please contribute today to allow all LINGUIST students to continue to gain this outstanding education and experience through their years as editors. Your help and donations will be invaluable to all. Donate today at https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm and help LINGUIST support so many more students that will one day give back to the linguistics community with their research and work in the field. Thank you, Maria Moreno-Rollins View Maria's personal page View Maria's hometown tour! |
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