[native-lang] Re: [website-dev] Re: [native-lang] Main Page - maybe translate it?

Hi *,

On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 10:38:18AM +0100, Johan Beckers wrote:
> Clytie Siddall schreef:
> > On 17/12/2006, at 1:43 AM, Konrad Stobiecki wrote:
> [...]
> >> I tried to imagine that I am an entrepreneur who does not know English.
> >> I enter www.openoffice.org and see "Native Language" leading to native
> >> projects. But if I do not know English, I leave the web page convinced
> >> that I am not able to find the language version of OpenOffice.org that
> >> suits me.

Well, theres still the image of the worldmap inside that button, so even
when you don't know what "native language" means, you could guess from
the image.

If you mean that http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html itself
needs a redesign, then I can tell you that the project pages are already
worked on. If you have ideas on how to improve the page to make it more
obvious for the visitor, then poste your ideas to [email protected]

> Sorry for me dropping in on this,
> but would it not be an idea if we could check the visitors browser
> and/or system settings, and depending on this redirect the visitor to

I don't like detecting of browser langauge or language by IP or
something for the content of a webpage. It might work well for
mirror-selection (select a mirror geographically near you), but doesn't
work very well for website content.

> the appropriate NL project. Every NL project could place a link to:
> OpenOffice.org International, or OpenOffice.org Worldwide.

The big problem is that by far not every nl-project provides the info
the english pages have. You can always visit your NL-project directly
using your <language-code>.openoffice.org - a scheme very widespread
across all possible websites.

So I'd rather not have automatic selection. 

The job of the native-language projects furthermore not not to translate
everything that is in english, but to create a community in the
respective language. There are lot's of common points of course..

ciao
Christian
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NP: Metallica - Until It Sleeps