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[Alexander Lancey <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I figured once we had the time and means to translate the site, we'd
autodetect the language, and have a dropdown bar or something for manual
selection.

On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 22:36 -0500, Jason Odoom wrote:

> Sure, good idea. Shall it be down manually or with a translation
> widget? If not, then it would
> be http://ubuntutour.org/english http://ubuntutour.org/spanish
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> http://ubuntutour.org/latin and so on? Or http://ubuntutour.org/en
> http://ubuntutour.org/sp (or whatever the abbreviation is). 
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> With all due respect,
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> Jason Odoom
> https://launchpad.net/~jasonodoom
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> Sent from Ubuntu.
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> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Jan Schuermann
> <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>         i think to bring Ubuntu to "normal" computer users the most
>         important
>         thing is to get them where they are...and the first thing is
>         the native
>         language of users. look at the adverts from Apple or
>         Microsoft, all
>         adverts, in my country, for their products are in my language,
>         so i
>         automatically have a natural relation to it.
>         the exisitng websites from http://ubuntu.com and other
>         resources like
>         the tour project or the manual project are really great and
>         powerful
>         publicity (in English-speaking countries).
>         why we want to reinvent the wheel?
>         why not translating all the great Ubuntu sites into the most
>         common
>         languages and use the existing corporate identity, instead of
>         making
>         something new and confuse the potential new user!
>         
>         are here some people from non-english-speaking countries?
>         
>         which languages did we have here?
>         perhaps:
>         Spanish
>         Portugues
>         German
>         Swedish
>         Dutch
>         French
>         
>         any other?
>         
>         let's try to bring Ubuntu to the people - there are so many
>         people not
>         speaking or understanding english very well and Ubuntu
>         definitely IS a
>         multilanguage OS why not the "corporate" ressources?
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