[OGDev] OpenGuides Belgium

[Dimitri Pasquazzo]

Hello Kake,

Thank you for the precious feedback.
We are 2 to work on it. "Doegox" loves to Flikr nice pictures of Brussels
and helps quite much on technical system issue to run the platform (Debian
Vserver Administrator) here is his wiki :
http://yobi.be/mediawiki/index.php/Table_of_contents
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doegox/558080108/

Have a great day !

Dimitri


Kake L Pugh wrote:
> 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
>
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