[IMC-US-tech] Another site suggestion; une autre suggestion; otra idea

[ski at indymedia.org]

Just a note, more people speak Chinese than French in US homes.

I think having spanish language is a must (it is over 10% of the US
population!), but chinese, french, and other languages are all under 1%.
Unless someone who speaks one of those languages comes forward and says
"hey, I'd love to translate every article to this language!" I think we
should worry about that later ;-)

Peace,
Brian

> Y-a t-ill des gens qui font partie de ces listes, qui parlent
> des langues autre que l'anglais comme langue maternelle?
>
> Hay gente que participan en estes listas quien hablan otros lenguas que el
> ingles?
>
> Another practical suggestion to the site is that there be translation
> pages and alternative-posting pages for the other languages commonly
> spoken in the US: Spanish (28 million native spanish speakers in the US)
> and French (the language spoken in 1.6 million American homes).  (see
> http://aolcom.factmonster.com/ipka/A0762163.html)  Indymedia global has
> set up a lovely translation tool page; we could use their code.  You can
> find a draft version of it at
> http://dispatch.indymedia.it/welcome.php3?lang=en
>
> Peace,
> Susanna
>
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Ana wrote:
>
>> hey Brian,
>>
>> I wasn't suggesting that this be the us site. I think many of us have
>> different ideas for what the us site will look like. But I still think
>> that the comment below is valuable. No matter what the purpose of your
>> site is, Boud is right that calling it a syndication of the IMC network
>> is misleading since it does only syndicate from us imcs. All we are
>> proposing to you is that you change the text to read
>> collected/syndicated from independent media centers in the united
>> states. No matter what becomes of this site, that is an important
>> clarification.
>>
>> thanks for all your work!
>> ana
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 03:05  PM, ski at indymedia.org wrote:
>>
>> > Hey,
>> >
>> > So, it appears there is some misunderstanding as to just what is at
>> > http://staughton.indymedia.org/~ski/us.htm - I created this as a test
>> > site, sort of an example, a mock-up if you will, with no intention of
>> > it
>> > being used as a site for the US IMC. Most of the code we're using I
>> > just
>> > grabbed from Kellan (although Quinten from Pittsburgh IMC has added
>> > some
>> > XML stuff). I don't have any problem with it being used as the US IMC
>> > site, but it would require HEAVY modification (from what I've heard,
>> it
>> > sounds like we'd need some open publishing on there in addition to
>> just
>> > the syndication stuff which is there now). Unfortunately I don't have
>> > the
>> > time to do the work that needs to be done to get this site going,
>> > technically. If anyone is interested in making this happen from a tech
>> > angle, get in touch with me and we can discuss what needs to be done.
>> >
>> > Peace,
>> > Brian Szymanski
>> > ski at indymedia.org
>> > bks10 at cornell.edu
>> >
>> >>>
>> >>> rough mock-up
>> >>> (http://lists.cu.groogroo.com/mailman/archive/imc-us/2003-September/
>> >>> 000100.html)
>> >>> of US IMC website:
>> >>> http://staughton.indymedia.org/~ski/us.htm
>> >>>
>> >>> solidarity
>> >>> boud
>> >>>
>> >>> PS: US IMC - your rough mock-up is of course only a draft, but i
>> >>> suggest that you quickly add the cities list to it - at the moment,
>> >>> someone new to indymedia reading the page gets the impression that
>> >>> indymedia only exists in the US, since it says
>> >>>
>> >>>> { indymedia - syndicated }
>> >>>> Collected from the IMC network
>> >>>
>> >>> without any hint that the IMC network goes beyond the USA... This is
>> >>> exactly the sort of racist attitude that people outside of the USA
>> >>> get
>> >>> worried about - let's hope it's just a Freudian slip and that
>> therapy
>> >>> will follow as promised...
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
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>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Brian Szymanski
>> > ski at indymedia.org
>> > bks10 at cornell.edu
>> >
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Brian Szymanski
ski at indymedia.org
bks10 at cornell.edu