Justin Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:<snip>
That kind of seems wrong. We're aiming at end users' aren't we?
yes, but don't underrate them.
No, sorry, I probably worded that badly.
I meant it more like "our end users and the end users for Firefox may not be the same people". I'm not saying that they are, or they aren't, I'm just saying that we might need to think about it more before deciding that the people we're trying to really reach are the same one's that are _already_ familiar with SpreadFireFox.
Hope that's clearer. :)
Um, I'm not sure how you arrived at these two thoughts.
Language barriers, too much work to handle and keep up to date multilingual site, ... Again, still the same example - compare MandrakeClub and mandrake.cz. Our users are visiting mandrake.cz, because of language, more useful info for them, ... Advanced users are trying to keep up to date MandrakeClub (translations) and all articles, but there is no success. I want to prevent this situation with spreadOOo.
Maybe I'm wrong and the multilingual site will have a great success. Who knows, maybe it's time to try it. Even if we will try this, it's good to start with one site, make it perfect and then try to add one language and wait for what happens.
I suppose it depends if each language is trying to develop it's own Community, or is trying to translate a (probably growing?) central set of documents "from outside"?
For example, let's say that we go along with having blogs, an Affiliate system, and other dynamic modules. Thinking about them a bit, they seem like the kinds of modules that probably would already have their interfaces translated, and wouldn't need much admin work nor tranlation compared to other things?
Perhaps I should be quiet now, and let the people more experienced with this kind of software speak up...? :)
As a potentially valuable guide, do you feel we should ask the people who successfully created SpreadFireFox, what they feel is needed to build the same kind of success?
I think it's worth to ask them, they can give you good advices and they can comment multilingual site idea too.
Cool. Frando has emailed some of them, so we should find out fairly soon I guess!
Thanks Robert. :)
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
Cheers, Robert
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