[LGM] Our website translation

Wed Mar 18 07:56:38 PDT 2015

2015-03-18 12:02 GMT-04:00 ginger coons <ginger at adaptstudio.ca>:

>  On 03/18/2015 10:27 AM, Louis Desjardins wrote:
>
>  2015-03-18 11:43 GMT-04:00 ginger coons <ginger at adaptstudio.ca>:
>
>>  On 03/18/2015 10:07 AM, Louis Desjardins wrote:
>>
>>  2015-03-18 6:08 GMT-04:00 Manuel Schmalstieg <webdev at ms-studio.net>:
>>
>>> Indeed, Polylang is currently one of the best multilingual solutions.
>>>
>>> We have opened a thread for the technical dissussion here:
>>> https://github.com/libregraphicsmeeting/htdocs-2015/issues/5
>>>
>>> I just activated the plugin, so Louis can start entering the
>>> translations.
>>>
>>
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  I just tested and everything seems to work fine. Great!
>>
>>  I need the logo in vector format. The PNG file available in the Press
>> Kit page is somewhat limited for various print usage!
>>
>>  I would need the full visual "Beyond the first decade" please.
>>
>>  It's all already available in the github repo.
>>
>
>  I understand. However I was thinking about the specific "Press Kit" page
> and how it can smooth our relationship with any media. If someone wants to
> grab the PNG file, that’s easy. If that person needs for any reason the
> vector file, can we put the links on the web page?
>
> In a press kit, I'm less keen to make the vector file available. In part,
> we risk having messed-up, off-style versions of the logo circulating if
> people who don't know adequately how to deal with vectors download and
> attempt to use it. If we have a high resolution bitmap available, I suspect
> that'll be good enough for most applications. If someone really needs the
> vector file for some specific purpose, they can always make use of the
> information on the contact page to ask whether it's possible to get it.
>

That’s a point of view I don’t share but let me explain why. At least, we’d
need a one color version for all newspapers who print in black (or any
color, in fact) and we need to control the grey we want to render the
black-blue contrast. Then, I was thinking of an outlined version of the
vector file which would only preserve the graphics, while being totally
resolution and font independent and taking away the fuss of having to
downscale a "high res png" (we never know what hi-res can mean for anybody
— it’s up to the final destination to determine what res fits the needs).
What if they need to upscale? Upscaling pixels has a limit.

It’s there to ease the life of the press people. We don’t expect someone to
"modify" the logo and grabbing a vector file won’t make that happen in
99,99% of the cases. However we don’t have much control on that either and
if someone really wants to modify it, he/she will, no matter what we
provide.

We could provide a PDF file if the SVG seems too risky from the editorial
point of view. But really, I see no risk there, but hypothetical.

Louis

>
> -g
>
>
>
>
>  Louis
>
>>
>>
>> -g
>>
>>
>>
>>> Once the pages are translated, we can build the menu for the French
>>> version (under Appearance, Menus : Main Navigation French).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Manuel
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Elisa Godoy de Castro Guerra
>>> <elisa.dcg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > I have a positive experience with the plugin polylang.
>>> > https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/
>>> > Easy to install, set up, understand, and use.
>>> >
>>> > Regards
>>> >
>>> > 2015-03-18 1:40 GMT+01:00 ginger coons <ginger at adaptstudio.ca>:
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> I am back with my initial question: what’s the procedure to have a
>>> French
>>> >> version of our website?
>>> >>
>>> >> There's a list of relevant plugins here:
>>> >> http://codex.wordpress.org/Multilingual_WordPress
>>> >>
>>> >> If anyone has had any experiences with them (positive or otherwise)
>>> maybe
>>> >> they can chip in their opinions?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> 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.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Louis, it's very nice that you're volunteering to translate the site
>>> into
>>> >> French! As with many things involved in LGM organizing, I'd love to
>>> see a
>>> >> discussion about how we can sustain initiatives like a multi-lingual
>>> website
>>> >> from year-to-year, rather than having each year be ad hoc and based
>>> on the
>>> >> choices of the local team and whoever has the time and passion for a
>>> >> particular issue.
>>> >>
>>> >> Maybe we can have a broader discussion about how to support the
>>> >> internationality of LGM, both this year and in future years.
>>> >>
>>> >> -ginger
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> 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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