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@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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