[Typo3-marketing] RFI: Recommendations for Typo3 PR-work ?

[Juergen Egeling]

* Sander Vogels <sander at netcreators.nl> [050114 11:33]:
> Not completely true; I started writing articles in English. Then they 
> had my work TRANSLATED IN GERMAN without giving me any notice. It was a 
> suprise for me that .edu has started in German, so mucht text for 
> translation is not there so it could be done in a few weeks.

Hi,
I somehow can understand you. My question here is:
Whe the hell is this running under
  t3gov.de
    ^^^ ^^
Or is it planned that the english version runs under t3gov.edu?

> I think we as a marketing group at least have to take a look in this 
> point from marketing perspective. A lot of people, also on the other 
> lists and during the T3tour, complained that;
> - the book is in German;
3 native german speakers start our writing a book. 100.- EUR betting on
the language the book is written in.

> - lots of extension documentation is German.
Blame on the programmers that write EXT and blame their school
not having them teached good english. So what would you do?
Exclude non english speaking programmers from documenting their
work, or no even allow uploads to the EXT repository, of you
do not have an english doc?
Does having a german documentation harm more than having no documentation
or even not having the EXT at all?
> - the official association Bylaws are in German
The officail association is located in switzerland. In the
part pf switzerland where they are located *german* is the language
spoken at court. So it first *has to be* german. So either you blame on
having the association in switzerland, or help translating it to
english. From what I heard at the tour the english translation is
under its way.

The quesion is: What to do with things for TYPO3 that are necessary
or at least "good" but the people maintaining it only speak "non
english" or are much faster in "non english". I did the TYPO3-LIVE
in german, because I *need* it for my german clients. I did the
documentaion on how to get own content on in *english*, but noone
gave me their work until now saying: Hey here is the english
translation.

> Some people may indeed consider this as at least a problem for Typo3 (to 
> state in mildly) cause all developers speak English, only few outside 
> Germany speak German.
> This is bad for Typo3 and not the way open-source works, especialy not 
> for a CMS that is distributed in 40 languages in over 50 countries.

What is your idea for the above people working. And if you please
could say "non speaking english" this would help me to calm down
and get my red signs out of my head.

> In my country we got loads of complaints about this tendency of Typo3 
> towards German, also from the government officials, and instead of 
> giving excuses I guess it's time to make English the official language 
> as a policy. I agree it's nice for the German agencies and the German 
> market but it holds back the penetration of Typo3 in lots of other 
> countries.

If all is about german vs. non german than I am out. This time is over
for me. period.
If its about "non english language" than we should get back on the
track and have at least an idea of how we could use the engaged people
that could not speak english or are much faster in their native
language.

have fun
Juergen
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