Hello, On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 22:42 +0200, Frando wrote: > Good evening. > > I think most of you will know the site www.spreadfirefox.com > > We are currently discussing such a site for openoffice.org. > > It's main aim would be to help spreading openoffice. ... spreading openoffice".org" . Know the brand first, advertise it after you got to learn it, Frando.
> > It would run on drupal CMS / civicspace. > > The OSU Open Source Labs provided a server, to which I got access a few > days ago. > One of the developers of spreadfirefox.com offered his help, too. > > On the marketing mailing list, there is currently a long discussion > about what kinds of content should be on the site and what not, and > internationalization was one of the things which were propsed by the > majority. > > There are currently 2 approaches to internationalization: > > - via drupal's i18n-module. This would mean, that sOOo would be a > multiliangual website, so it would be ONE website for ALL countries. > Each peace of content (called "node" in drupal) can be translated into > every language. The user sees only the content in the languages he > specified. Affiliate- and usersystem would be worldwide. I think it is very important to talk with each of the native-lang projects first before even thinking to add one language to your site. > > - via the "multi site"-ability of drupal. Each language would have a > own database. The sites would be totally independent from each other, so > each one would have it's OWN user- and affiliatesystem, even the main > menu structure could differ. Don't even think about this. You are duplicating native lang sites, and you are effectively forking off the community. Charles. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
