Thanks for your email, and I agree this is a great concern for the user experience that international communities have. Also an issue that maybe business and consultants could pick up.
Some of this work however comes from either the web efforts primarily, most of the ways where users find themselves in non localized territory comes either from the Web. Some of these websites are own by the community some aren't. I see two ways to manage this: - Either report the statically linked areas in OOo so we can isolate the issue. - Work on the web areas like webdev and provide localization support to these sites. I do however can't seem how can BizDev really work in these scenario, I would either think about webdev or NLC to work these issues out. On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Kazunari Hirano <khir...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > With UI and Online Help localization/translation we have been doing a > good job, helped and led by Oracle/Sun engineers like Project Lead > Rafaella, Ivo and others. Please join me in applauding their efforts > and your efforts :) > > Now many people from various parts of the world on this planet can use > OpenOffice.org in their languages. > > But if they try to get their "OpenOffice.org installed on their > machines" registered and supported, they will meet difficulties. > > Did you read my blog? > http://openoffice.exblog.jp/10450405/ > :) > As you see, if you want to register your OpenOffice.org, you have to > go through all those "English" pages. > > Businesses with more than 25 employees, which want their > OpenOffice.org supported, will soon get lost. > > If you install or update your recent OpenOffice.org, your browser will > open the following pages: > http://update.services.openoffice.org/ooo/index.html > http://update.services.openoffice.org/ooo/index.html?cid=920899 > > These pages have the link to http://surveys.services.openoffice.org/ > If you want to contribute your feedback and click the link, you will > be taken to http://surveys.services.openoffice.org/surveys/index.php?sid=69531 > then you can meet the survey in German :) > > If you have seen > https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/OpenOffice.org/default/en_US/register-login.jsp > you know this page has the banner "Your feedback helps. Go to the > OpenOffice.org survey now." If you click the banner, you can meet > "Anwenderumfrage 2009" again even though we now live in 2010 :) > > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=111118 > > http://l10n.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=12244 > By the way I can't buy Japanese Oracle Open Office in yen yet. > http://openoffice.exblog.jp/10451201/ > I am sure they are working hard to improve the shopping site. > > I liked to recommend StarOffice and StarSuite to SMB, local > governments and others, showing the example of Bristol. > http://odf.dreamlog.jp/archives/2898199.html > http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/02/23/bristol_migration.html > > I would like to do the same for Oracle Open Office. > > Now I would like to ask Oracle to help, cooperate and facilitate > OpenOffice.org localization project and localization teams to work on > localization/translation of those pages I am talking about in my > blogs. > http://openoffice.exblog.jp/10450405/ > http://openoffice.exblog.jp/10451201/ > > Our aim is that all the people on this planet (on other planets and in > interstellar space in the future :)) can use OpenOffice.org in their > language, can register their OpenOffice.org in their language, can get > support in their language and can buy support in their language. > > I am CCing this mail to Bizdev. > > Thanks, > khirano > > > -- > Kazunari Hirano - Marketing Project Coordinator - OpenOffice.org > Japanese Language Project > http://ja.openoffice.org/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@bizdev.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@bizdev.openoffice.org > > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español http://es.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@l10n.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@l10n.openoffice.org
