[LGM] Our website translation

[Louis Desjardins]

2015-03-17 17:53 GMT-04:00 Øyvind Kolås <pippin at gimp.org>:

> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:08 PM, Louis Desjardins
> <louis.desjardins at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2015-03-17 16:38 GMT-04:00 Manuel Schmalstieg <webdev at ms-studio.net>:
> >>
> >> Louis, would you entirely translate the website (each page existing in
> English and French)?
> >> Or would you add a short French summary on each page?
> >
> > Actually, I would translate much of the content. This already exists from
> > previous years and needs a bit of adaptation, so not as much work as a
> > complete translation, but result will be the same.
> >
> > We had that, I believe (LD tries to remember) in Madrid, Brussels,
> Montreal,
> > Vienna (?)...
>
> Sorry to be a broken record :). Based on both local and international
> attendence I do not see a reason to give french prominent amounts of
> visual bandwidth for LGM; unless it unlocks significant funding that
> we otherwise would not have.
>

Hi,

I am back with my initial question: what’s the procedure to have a French
version of our website?

Thanks!

As for the local attendance, many will come from Québec and do speak French
— one of the two official languages of Canada, spoken throughout the
country even if some numbers are low in some areas, the fact remains. Many
others will be happy to read the info in their language, even if they don’t
come to LGM. This also includes the French medias and this includes people
from all over the world.

I see only good reasons to have it in French and if someone wants to step
in and provide a translation in other languages as well, all the best.

Cheers!

Louis



>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Toronto
> "While English is the predominant language spoken by Torontonians,
> Statistics Canada reports that other language groups are significant,
> including the Chinese languages (particularly Cantonese and Mandarin),
> Italian, Punjabi, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu, Tamil, Portuguese, Persian,
> Arabic, Russian, Polish, Gujarati, Korean, Vietnamese, and Greek.
> Canada's other official language, French, is spoken by 1.2% of the
> population."
>
> /pippin
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