Hi Ning, I'm aware of a number of different groups in China using the OSG, and understand the challanges in learning and using the websites and the code in something other than your first language. I've also learnt about website access problems from Chinnese users.
We are about to move the openscenegraph.org server across from the US to Europe. Provision of a mirror of this server, or at least the website would be something I'm open to, but I'm won't be the web administartor so can't speak on their behalf for volunterring such support. In terms of reproducing the website and translating into Chinese, this is another challenge. Keeping it up to date will be a further challenge. Is there any chance of using something like bablefish to translate existing pages on the fly? No doubt other nations that English is not their first language would also desire website support in their native language. Perhaps it'll be possible to host website translation on the new sever, I don't know how other websites go about multi-language support, the fact we use a wiki adds another twist. This deserves an open debate on how one might takle it. I'm certainly open to having mirrors and translations of OSG materials, but need input and time from members of the community to make it happen. W.r.t extension to the OSG, this is easy, elements can be developed out in the community and when ready submitted for inclusion if appropriate. This is how the OSG has always developed so no need for any new systems for that. Robert. On 2/4/07, ning longr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mr Osfield: We are the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering In Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LESMARS) in Wuhan University, at present, one of our interested research areas is 3D modeling and real-time rendering based on the large scenes (for example, cities, districts, marine) about the spatial information. we find that OSG is such a very useful tool that we are actively studying OSG and its advanced technology to render greater scope of 3D terrain. At present, China has a number of groups or individuals are using it. We want to let more people understand it, use it and then improve it. So that it may become more perfect. However, because of some questions (earthquake, etc.), the domestic staffs are interrupted to visit the official website of OSG, which has brought us a definite impact. Therefore, we plan to make a web site mirror and have prepared a Chinese domain name www.openscenegraph.com.cn. Meanwhile, we will translate some of the key documents into Chinese, and establish the Chinese community to discuss the OSG, which, we believe, is convenient for Chinese to understand the powerful capability of OSG and facilitate the use of domestic users. What's more, we will do some further improvements of OSG in the field of Geographic using the results of our lab, and we will make every effort to solve the problem of the huge amount of geospatial data in the fast 3D modeling and visualization and real-time rendering. We hope that OSG will develop well in china and have a better expansion in the application of geographic information. __________________________________________________________________ LESMARS,WuHan University. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone: 86-27-68778229 Fax: 86-27-68778229 _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/
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