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Call to non-english speaking people

Every now and then we search Google for OpenBaseMovil to see what the people is saying, how are they using it, etc.

We’ve found many Chinese and other Asian pages talking about it, discussing certain matters about character parsing and other issues, for example.

We’ve also found Arab pages that are trying to help people with OpenBaseMovil.

And even Spanish job offers that ask for OpenBaseMovil knowledge.

We are native Spanish speakers, since we’re from Spain, and though we decided from the start that this site and all that has to do with OpenBaseMovil should be in English for it to be more global, it seems natural that other languages should be incorporated one way or other to the site, and also to the platform documentation.

It is also clear that it is easy for us to test with different languages like English or Spanish and that there should be no problems with other left-to-right occidental languages like German, French, Italian, etc. But it is a whole different issue with Asian languages, and right-to-left languages like Arab or Hebrew, and that is far more difficult for us to try ourselves.

So this call ask for a couple of things from you:

  1. Do you think that we should create sections with translations to other languages?
  2. Would you be willing to collaborate in the task?
  3. Should we create also language-specific sections in the forums? This raises a moderation issue.
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3 Responses

  1. Posted on 21. April 2008 at 04:18 #comment-66

    dandus




    1.I feel a need
    2.I will.
    3.If possible

  2. Posted on 21. April 2008 at 07:52 #comment-67

    Narciso Cerezo




    Thank you Dandus,
    We’ve already created Spanish and German sections in the forums, thanks to the collaboration of Stefan Haacker on the German side. He will be the moderator for the German forum, and he will translate also the resources in the openbasemovil libraries to German.
    We thought that the easiest way to start were the forums and the resources. Then could come the documentation, and afterwards an specific site for each language ( es.openbasemovil.org, de.openbasemovil.org, etc. ) but this last step requires more effort and better mutual knowledge.
    Send me an email to find the best way to collaborate.

  3. Posted on 23. April 2008 at 05:20 #comment-68

    dandus




    I very much look forward to Chinese Published.
    Thank you!
    :)

    dandus
    Shanghai. China

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