So, after my recent trip to Japan, I realized we don't really have a particularly good "Here's where to get help" starting page. I put together http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/GettingHelp , and then added http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/GettingHelp/ForeignLanguageSupport
Essentially, a quick summary is: * The lists are primarily English * Try to translate your question, but include the original text if yu don't trust your translation skills -- we have some foreign language speakers on the list. * If you are interested in a foreign langauge list for OL, add yourself to a wikipage and we may make one if there's enough interest. * Here are some resources in foreign langauges. I'm hopeful that we can get this translated into as many languages as possible by various members of the OSGeo community, so that if we get a question in a foreign language -- especially one that members of the Mailing list don't speak -- we have a single wikipage to try to point people to. Also, these pages can point to other langauge-specific resources (Documentation, etc.) that we can encourage people to use. Any thoughts on this particular implementatin? I know we have French, German, and Spanish speakers on the list who might be willing to translate the page for us if we decide that this is a sane way to get started :) One of the things I realized when I was in Japan is that it's very difficult to find *anything* about OpenLayers due to the nature of Google indexing there. Specifically, pages which are English tend to be almost impossible to find, because everything is so heavily weighted towards Japanese. Example searches: http://www.google.co.jp/search?q=openlayers http://www.google.com/search?q=openlayers So, in Japan, you get: * OpenLayers website. Good. * OpenLayers QuickTutorial on how t use OL with *iframes*. Bad. * Blog entries, random minor URLs. No docs, no wiki, no how to get started. (Though I do see that http://mapabc.wikidot.com/openlayers:menu appears to be a Japanese translation of our API docs? It's not clear if this is automated or manual... but I'm impressed, in either case. An example of "resources listed on the ForeignLanguageSupport/ja page"... ) By comparison, in English, you get: * Website * Blog * Wikipedia article * Nabble Forum * API docs link before it heads into various blog entries, etc. Neither of these is particularly great, I suppose, but I think that getting a "Here, start here" for foreign languages might help draw more people to the OpenLayers community who currently feel a bit lost or left out on how to get started. Thoughts? Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
