[Brug-talk] Setup BRUG website

[Laurent Sansonetti]

On 10/8/07, Peter Vanbroekhoven <peter at xaop.com> wrote:
> Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
> > Regarding the group website, I wasn't present at the meeting so I
> > don't really know what you are planning to do with it, but I wonder if
> > it's really interesting to provide content in both French and Dutch.
> > We should perhaps focus on English content at least initially, since
> > most (all?) of the people can understand it.
>
> Obviously the primary content should always be in English indeed. But
> the main reason for providing a translation has little to do with the
> ability to speak English; many people still prefer reading information
> in their native tongue no matter how good their English is. So, in the
> long term, providing translations for at least the most important
> content is a must, and if we want to encode it in the URL as Peter
> suggested, we need to take this into account from the beginning.
>

Fair enough, I also do agree that providing translations is definitely
a good idea, if we focus on English content first. We could even
compete with the .fr or .nl monolingual groups :-)

Laurent