[WebCom] Web Site Translations

[Tyler Mitchell]

On 5-Jan-07, at 12:15 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> It has been brought to my attention that the efforts at translation on
>
>   http://community.osgeo.org/
>
> did not make it to the official drupal instance at www.osgeo.org.

That's right, we imported www.osgeo.org not that prototype site.   
Though content is certainly not lost, it wasn't a primary part of our  
'real' infrastructure migration focus but more of a testbed for  
future potential.  There is no reason we can't bring it over, just  
needs someone to do it.

> What do we need to do to get this in place?  Could somewhat explain
> what is involved in maintaining translations?

Translations end up being, virtually, another page/node in the CMS.   
When translations are enabled then someone needs to have translation  
editing privileges to contribute to them.  This 'role' can be limited  
so that editing of the initial default English page is still secure.

> If we can get the structure into place, I'd like to solicit  
> translators
> for a few languages.


This brings up the whole roles/access control issue again.  Until we  
have a plan for handling users and roles in the drupal site, perhaps  
we should just have translators provide back some raw html to be  
added in by WebCom.  I think we need to view our osgeo.org site  
content management just as strictly (more or less) as we did in the  
past through WebCom, though I think we should still have a community  
section that is more for community interaction, blogs, tools, etc. as  
tested on community.osgeo.org.

I will put my thoughts on access control into an RFC for the  
committee to debate.

Tyler