[OGDev] OpenGuides Belgium

[Kake L Pugh]

On Mon 02 Jul 2007, Dimitri Pasquazzo <dimitri at justbiit.com> wrote:
> First of all, Congratulation to all members of the openguides project. It
> is really a great project and I feel proud to run the Belgium one.

Hi Dimitri!  Great to see the birth of a Belgian guide.

> As maintener of the Brussels platform, I am wondering to expand to others
> cities such as Li?ge, Brugges, ect.. As Belgium in size looks like New
> York... Does anyone feel unconfortable with this ?

Unless you spend a great deal of time in these other cities, it might
be best to start out by concentrating on one area, i.e. Brussels, and
get some good and consistent coverage there.  What we've found is that
unless a guide has a dedicated team of contributors, it's very likely
that the guide will just fall into disuse.  Are you working on the
project on your own, or do you have other people willing to contribute
as well?

Once you're more established, though, expansion of the guide to other
cities might work out well.

> But I was wondering witch languages should I focus on. In Belgium, we have
> 2 languages but english should be the best compromise for touristics
> reasons. But I will agree to keep words in the two nationnal languages
> because even the city name are different (Li?ge - Lutich or Mons -
> Bergen). Does anyone feel unconfortable with this ?

The Vienna people might have some useful input on this.  I think the
plan there was to have content in both German and English, on the same
page, so German speakers and English speakers can both contribute.
(Actually, this gives a way for people to contribute to a guide even
if they know very little about a city, as long as they know both
languages of a guide - making sure that information is translated back
and forth.)

> ps: should we agree on http://brussels.openguides.org ?

I have no objection to that.  I think it's Dom that needs to sort out
DNS things?

Kake