Opinions on hosting translated documentation

[Petr Tomeš]

Hi all,

the Czech Ubuntu Team support these idea, because it will lead to
easily available documentation (and links to Czech forum and mailing
list) to every user of Czech version, even if user won't know about
official Czech website (Ubuntu.cz). It would be nice, if we can
provide basic translation of Ubuntu.com homesite too, because users of
shipit CD can visit the presented url ubuntu.com on CD to find some
more information in their language (some of them don't know about
local site Ubuntu.cz). One of important reasons to do that is also
easily and quickly available translated release notes to users of
LiveCD, who thinking about to install Ubuntu to their computer. It
wouldn't be much work for loco teams.

I am looking forward to see comments and opinions of other loco teams
and discussing details.

Petr Tomeš,
Ubuntu CZ - http://www.ubuntu.cz/

2006/4/2, Matthew East <mdke na ubuntu.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> Recently I've been thinking about the hosting of translated
> ubuntu-specific documentation. It hasn't been translated yet, so it's
> still early days, but it's nice to think about these things early.
>
> Jordi suggested hosting all the translated documentation on the
> documentation website[1] and I think this is quite a good idea. It would
> mean that we could set up that website to default to the user's
> browser-defined language, and the other major advantage to that would be
> that the link in System -> Help -> Online Documentation would point at
> documentation in the user's local language.
>
> [1] http://help.ubuntu.com/6.04/
>
> The technical difficulties of doing this are pretty minimal (the largest
> one will probably be that we might need a better server for that
> website).
>
> The disadvantage might be that a number of teams host documentation on
> their own local website (ubuntu-cc.org) and may wish to have the
> documentation there. Another disadvantage is that the main Ubuntu
> website is not localised, so localising help.ubuntu.com might look
> strange.
>
> So for those reason I'd like to hear people's views on this. An obvious
> solution might be to host the translated documentation on
> help.ubuntu.com, and locoteams can mirror it on their own websites. I
> think I'd probably be in favour of doing this.
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> Matt
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