[Doc-SIG] Support for non-English-speaking users

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Fri, 8 Feb 2002 13:25:35 -0500


Currently, there is a single Web page at python.org which provides
links to non-English resources:

    http://www.python.org/doc/NonEnglish.html

This page includes entries for 18 different languages (at the moment),
including many which aren't served well by the default Latin-1
encoding for the Web page containing the list.  We've gotten by so far
because most of the descriptions are written in English, which doesn't
make a lot of sense for the target audience.

What I'd like to do is get a group of voluteers to maintain a set of
pages, one for each language, written in the same language as the
resources being described.  Each page could use the most appropriate
character set, and the page at the current URL would be replaced with
the index the language-specific pages.

I'd like one volunteer to help coordinate the effort and make the
actual changes to the site.  This person would have write-access to
the CVS repository which contains the python.org pages.

[I proposed something similar a couple of years ago, but the matter
 was somewhat less pressing at the time, and I was better able to
 manage the current list of translations myself.  There are now more
 pressures on my time and it has become easier to support volunteers
 to help maintain python.org.]

If you're interested in volunteering, please send email to
python-docs@python.org.  Suggestions for alternative approaches or
additional ways to help should be sent to the Doc-SIG mailing list.

Please feel free to forward this message to people you feel may be
interested in helping out who are not on the Doc-SIG mailing list!

Thanks!


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
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