Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Hallo,

>
> [ snip ]
>
> You start out by experimenting, and trying to involve the
> community. It's perfectly fine to start a website without a clear idea
> of where it's going to go. You can use it as a testing ground. With
> community involvement, perhaps it'll become something neat and
> useful.

  I fully understand you, but IMHO this is not the right way. We have
  an expriment here and it's name is FreeYourFiles.com. This site is
  dead ... Are we interested in another SpreadOpenOffice.org dead
  site?

> Would you like to help out?

  If I'll have a free time, of course.

> Frando, I think Robert has a good point. How about you join
> [email protected] and try to work with the NLC ? They're
> very nice people, very friendly.

  This have to be done when you want to create world wide
  SpreadOpenOffice.org site.

> I disagree in a way. No one said that all the languages had to be
> identical. But I think it would be good if they were in the same URL,
> so it is easy to locate them.

  Leave this decision on the NLC projects. It's absolutely neccessary
  for local community to know where is the promotion site in their
  language and it not depends on the URL. Globalization is not good as
  it looks like ... Next thing is freedom - who will handle this
  domain, who will be responsible for third level domains, who will
  have last word when there will be problem (two sites fighting for
  the cs.spreadopenoffice.org)?

> You get the idea. Each one of these would be independent. But having
> them somewhat together like that makes them easy to find, and easier
> for them to exchange ideas and share resources, whenever it is
> beneficial.

  If you want to make it in this way, I have nothing against this, but
  I'm little bit sceptic. My proposal is to create an english version
  only, check it with the NLC projects and than, if there will be
  interest, create $LANG.spreadopenoffice.org ...

  And remember, it's better to have domains in the local language like
  prejdete.openoffice.cz. Lot of people don't speak English, they like
  domains with words they know, ...

> Each NL project should do what they feel like with their part of the
> site. If they find an article they like, and they want to translate
> it, great. If they don't, that's great too.

  This will be something like Mandrakeclub - common users logins in
  and articles in French, English, Czech, ... Not all articles
  translated ... Not friendly ...

> But you can setup a system that encourages cooperation and exchanging
> ideas. Because *some times* they will be able to work together.

  Yes, but as you can see, there should be discussion about this site,
  about the content of this site, about the whole idea before you'll
  start implementing it. Or there will be another freeyourfiles.com
  dead site ...

Regards,
Robert

-- 
 Robert Vojta
 http://blog.vojta.name/

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