[LGM] Our website translation

Fri Mar 20 04:56:56 PDT 2015

2015-03-20 9:05 GMT-04:00 ginger coons <ginger at adaptstudio.ca>:

>  On 03/18/2015 10:56 AM, Louis Desjardins wrote:
>
>  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.
>
>    If you care that deeply about it, I suppose we could throw a link to
> the repo onto the Press page.
>

Ok. Will do. Thanks!

Louis

>
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> -g
>
>
>  Louis
>
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>> -g
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>>
>>  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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