[Webcom] Re: Translated web site content

[Tyler Mitchell]

On 23-Feb-07, at 9:59 AM, Jason Birch wrote:

> Agreed.  Translation is a different role than content creation, and  
> all "pages" should be semantically equivalent regardless of the  
> language they are being presented in.
>
> I don't mind these two roles being held by the same people if  
> that's been OK'd by WebCom or the "owner" of a particular section  
> of the site, but new content or changes to the meaning of existing  
> pages need to follow our guidelines, and be communicated to the  
> translations group for synchronisation.
>
> I disagree that there should be different content for different  
> languages.  These can be maintained in the local chapter areas.   
> Hmm.  It might make sense to have a link to the appropriate local  
> chapter on the main page (contradicting himself)

Arnulf,
Can you tell us why your translation of the home page is so different  
from our English one? i.e. http://www.osgeo.org/startseite

If there are better ways to do our main page then perhaps we can roll  
the kinds of changes you made in Deutsch back into the English version.