Re: [OGDev] OpenGuides Belgium

Congratulations and good luck with Open Guide Bruxelles/Belgium, Dimitri! Multiple languages is fine by me.... as you say, English is a tourist language but it depends on who the guide is for. I think in many cases the Open Guides are for local citizens of a place rather than tourists, so maybe local languages are more appropriate. I think this is one big reason why Open Guides are different from WikiTravel (http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page). Certainly in our Milton Keynes Open Guide (http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page) we have many entries that are only interesting for local residents, such as schools, car mechanics, etc. I think http://brussels.openguides.org is a good address. Would it be a problem to open up new addresses if other cities started having a lot of entries? kind regards Mark -----Original Message----- From: openguides-dev-bounces(a)lists.openguides.org on behalf of Dimitri Pasquazzo Sent: Mon 7/2/2007 7:29 PM To: openguides-dev(a)lists.openguides.org Subject: [OGDev] OpenGuides Belgium Hi ! 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. As maintener of the Brussels platform, I am wondering to expand to others cities such as Liège, Brugges, ect.. As Belgium in size looks like New York... Does anyone feel unconfortable with this ? 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 (Liège - Lutich or Mons - Bergen). Does anyone feel unconfortable with this ? Cheers, Dimitri Pasquazzo http://www.justbiit.com/cgi-bin/openguides/ ps: should we agree on http://brussels.openguides.org ? SKYPE as Grammoux MSN as dpasquazzo(a)hotmail.com Linkedin as dimitri.linkedin(a)justbiit.com eBay http://members.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=dpasquazzo Jabber as dpasquazzo(a)jabber.org http://www.justbiit.com -- OpenGuides-Dev mailing list - OpenGuides-Dev(a)lists.openguides.org http://lists.openguides.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openguides-dev