[squeak-dev] Our website in other languages too? (and forums?)

Janko Mivšek janko.mivsek at eranova.si
Mon May 26 10:38:27 UTC 2008


Hi Giuseppe,

Giuseppe Luigi Punzi wrote:
> I can help with spanish translation.
> 
> I would like to propose 2 ideas.
> 
> 1.- A web-forum. Something like PhpBB or SMF, parallel to maillist. With this, is easier and pretty to follow some thread. Follow threads not readed after some time, etc. 

It could be that someone is more fan of forums like PhPBB while others 
are more used of pure mailing lists. With a right mail client you can 
organize your mails quite close to the forum like. Also in terms of 
priority I think the multilingual website is more important right now.

> Sometimes, I don't have time to read the list, but I mark the mails readed because is a little crazy to follow other mails. With forums, you can view "posts since your last visit" easy and comfortable. Create topics in bold, italic, hyperlinks, images, etc... You can search easy a topic, and is url friendly......
> 
> With this, is possible to have subforums connected with squead-dev or others maillists too for example, and easier to read out of home or work, without having lots of unread mails on inbox. 
> 
> Is very easy to create a new subforum for new projects, or communities, and forums could be tracked via RSS and mail too.
> 
> 2.- It doesn't exists an official maillist "support" like squeak-es for spanish community. We are only a few now, but we are growing every day :D

But you have quite active Squeak in Spanish mailing list: 
http://www.nabble.com/Squeak-in-Spanish-f14188.html ?


> I can't understand why this 2 ideas doesn't exists yet. 
> 
> Only my 2 cents.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 26 May 2008 11:09:20 +0200
> Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek at eranova.si> wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I just read Yoshiki's post about wish of Latin American countries to 
>> have EToys in Spanish and there are already wishes to have our 
>> www.squeak.org in Spanish too. So, shall we start thinking about having 
>> our website in many languages?
>>
>> I'm personally fan of that idea but with some preconditions:
>>
>>     1. Every supported language must have a sub-community willing to 
>> translate and maintain content in their language. Maintaining 
>> consistently and long-term! If this precondition is not met, we better 
>> don't support that language.
>>
>>     2. We need to upgrade website to be able to support many languages 
>> and easily make translation of content between them.
>>
>> We can copy the Wikipedia way of supporting multilingual entries where 
>> every language has its own but usually not the same description of some 
>> term. This way is to be considered too. We can have only the same basic 
>> structure and titles of the content, but every language sub-community 
>> has a freedom to describe the title by their own. Ok, some content must 
>> obviously be the same in all languages, but this can be the exception of 
>> the rule.
>>
>> We can also provide the notification of changes of content (RSS, 
>> e-mail), so that communities will be able to react to the changes fast.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Janko Mivšek
>> Web Team leader
>>
>>
> 
> 

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Janko Mivšek
AIDA/Web
Smalltalk Web Application Server
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