[OSGeo-Board] Greetings from Beijing

[Auke Jilderda]

Gary,

the OSGeo.org site is localised for English, Korean, Japanese, and
Chinese.  I am currently assisting the MapGuide project on how to create
the translated content for their project so expect to see that arrive in
the MapGuide project shortly.

If these people are interested, I can invite them to join a telephone
conference and WebEx on Wednesday 12:00 CET / 18:00 Singapore time in
which I will outline and demonstrate how to create localised content?  I
can show it for both project and site wide level.  Also, we can easily
set up a project for them as collaboration space for them to create the
translated content, if the foundation would like?

Let me know what you think,


Auke

On Friday, July 14, 2006 12:52, Gary Lang wrote:
> 
> Yesterday I met with some folks from a government institute that are
> doing a lot of work with open source GIS and want to contribute code
> back, and in addition want to set up a chapter of OSGeo for China.
> Given their deep involvement with the software - they use most of our
> projects - and reach across the country, I think these people would be
> invaluable members of OSGeo and perfect representatives of OSGeo in
> China.
> 
> What is our process for this? I move we get these guys into membership
> status right away and get them set up. They are willing to translate,
> host data, and become contributors to our projects.
> 
> I will be offline for a couple of days; I am going up into the Yellow
> Mountains here, where net access is unlikely, so I will be back on
> Monday.
> 
> Gary

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