[LGM] Our website translation
ginger coons
ginger at adaptstudio.ca
Fri Mar 20 06:05:33 PDT 2015
On 03/18/2015 10:56 AM, Louis Desjardins wrote:
> 2015-03-18 12:02 GMT-04:00 ginger coons <ginger at adaptstudio.ca
> <mailto: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
>> <mailto: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 <mailto: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.
>
If you care that deeply about it, I suppose we could throw a link to the
repo onto the Press page.
-g
>
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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>>> >> ginger "all-lower-case" coons
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