[OGDev] OpenGuides Belgium

[M.B.Gaved]

Hi Dimitri

A buddy is always good! (me and Tom run the Milton Keynes Open Guide).
We also found that by doing a small "launch event" helped build up a
core of contributors, who continue to be the main posters for our guide.


Me and Tom put in 50 entries ourselves to get the guide started, so
people would have a 'frame' and understand the sort of entries that
could be put in. Then we invited people to come along to a workshop to
find out about the guide, and enter something themselves. We're in a
university so we had an advantage of access to a room with computers and
a lot of interested people nearby, but bribing them with coffee and free
cakes also helped :-)

We talked people through the idea of the guide and helped them put in at
least one entry each themselves, so they could experience the system and
give us feedback on what needed to be improved. That was it really...
but it seems to have given us a core group of contributors.

Good luck!

Mark
http://miltonkeynes.openguides.org/


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:openguides-dev-bounces at lists.openguides.org] On Behalf Of
Dimitri Pasquazzo
Sent: 04 July 2007 09:53
To: OpenGuides software developers' list
Cc: dimitri at justbiit.com
Subject: Re: [OGDev] OpenGuides Belgium

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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