[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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