Localization includes three parts, (1) the localization of the user
interface, (2) the localization of the content, and (3) the promotion
needed so that people know that localized portal / content exists and
the way to use it. Step (1) is relatively easy, and currently this has
been accomplished for many languages. Step (2) depends heavily on the
availability of resouces. Since we are still in a pre-mature stage not a
lot of people (either from within or without Sun) are involved in
converting / localizing contents from English to other languages. The
situation is, we have created many of the so-called language portals,
but there exist not enough content to fill them up or even keep them up
to date. Step (3) is even more difficult. You have some good stuff there
does mean that people will come visit you, simply because they don't
know about the existance of your good stuff. For example, many Sun
employees in China does not know that we have a Chinese portal on
opensolaris.org.
If we want to attract more non-US-based / non-English -speaking folks to
opensolaris.org, we will need to make significant improvements in both
(2) and (3).
I myself is runing an OpenSolaris-focused website in China. Every month
it gets about the same number of IP address as opensolaris.org as
indicated in the metrics. That's to say, not all the people who are
interested in OpenSolaris will go to opensolaris.org...
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Jim Grisanzio ??:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
>> I see a problem with missing
>> acceptance for opensolaris.org outside the USA that should be checked.
>>
>>
>
> Until opensolaris.org is fully localized, this will be the case. That's
> why Globalization is such a big part of the site upgrade plans. As it is
> now, the language portals are starting to generate some interesting
> traffic specifically because they are localized and nascent language
> communities are starting to grow (which is very cool). Also, UG traffic
> is increasing and diversifying into multiple languages. So, we are
> growing internationally. But I've been saying for two years that we are
> probably growing internationally /faster/ than we may realize because
> the data is not all represented on the main site since opensolaris.org
> is no longer the only OpenSolaris community.
>
> Jim
>
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