---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yves Jacolin <yjacolin [ at ] free [ dot ] fr> Date: 2008/8/24 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Manage translation in OSGeo project To: "Discussions, OSGeo" <discuss [ at ] lists [ dot ] osgeo [ dot ] org> Hi, ** History ** 2 years ago I began to translate the GDAL-OGR documentation into french. In order to do things correctly I contacted FrankW to know which way was the best to do things. As I began to work on a OOo document, we decided that I will send the dox files for gdal and ogr utilities. The other pages are now hosted by my personal website (which aims to host all my documentation). ** Currently ** Now it is finished, and after contacting some other projet, I saw that some project did not think about translation process and hosting. QGIS host its documentation in LaTeX files in SVN which is a quiet good solution but with some constrainte (not all people know LaTeX tags and a lot are afraid about editing LaTeX files). Some other are using Trac wiki which seems quiete limited (but I am not aware of all its possibility). In the past (not so far) I tried to run the Cartoweb Community [1] using Dokuwiki and some hack to manage langage process, but this is not good enough. ** Some propositions ** Well, I have no one, but as I am mainly a translator and began writing some other documentation, I think this is time to think about this (for my personnal point of view ;) ). I think this is important that all documentation should be in the same website as the original, see Dokuwiki website [2] for a good example (to me). We have to think about hosting pages, but also all the translation process: who is doing what, when do we need what modify, who change what, etc. ** Conclusion ** The purposes of this mail are : * tell to everybody (project committee, dev) to not to forget to think about translation * run a discuss about this small "issue". Best regards, Y. [1] http://ww.cartoweb-community.net [2] http://www.deezer.com/track/848 -- Yves Jacolin ------------- "Donner la liberté aux individus ne suffit pas, il faut aussi leur donner du pouvoir, de la puissance d'agir." M Gauchet "Give freedom to people is not enough, we also have to give them the power to use this freedom, to act". M Gauchet ------------- http://yjacolin.gloobe.org http://softlibre.gloobe.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss [ at ] lists [ dot ] osgeo [ dot ] org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Πριν εκτυπώσετε αυτό το μήνυμα, σκεφθείτε το περιβάλλον! Ένα χαρτί λιγότερο! - http://karounos.gr/blog/