Hi list,<div><br></div><div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">It's clear to me that most readers of this list have no problem with an English version of OSGeo LiveDVD.
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">But our target users - usually FOSS4G and Ubuntu newbies -, who are not native English speakers and often have keyboards other than US layout, often run into troubles without even starting the first application. This is my personal experience with a few workshops in Japan, where I made use of the last year's LiveDVD. </span></div>
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I'm planning to use the LiveDVD again for FOSS4G Tokyo/Japan in November and will also attend Intergeo in Germany in October, where the LiveDVD will be presented as well (right, Astrid?).</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">
I would like to build localized versions for those conferences, at least for the Japanese ones, and I wanted to ask if anyone else would be interested. </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">
<br></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">I think a localized LiveDVD should have:</div><div><ul><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">country specific locale, keyboard and time settings</span></font></li>
<li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">translated LiveDVD documentation and welcome message</span></font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">translated menu and shortcut titles (if not too difficult)</span></font></li>
<li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">translated DVD cover/booklet with first instructions </span></font></li></ul><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">We could organize a BoF (</span></font><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010_Breakout_Sessions">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010_Breakout_Sessions</a>)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; "> and/or code sprint session (</span><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010_Code_Sprint">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010_Code_Sprint</a>) at FOSS4G.</div>
<div>Anyone interested?</div><div><br></div><div>Daniel</div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br>
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