From: slonik.az@... Date: 2005-12-19T02:40:29+09:00 Subject: Re: English Ruby Home as a second class citizen Wow, my innocent post generated 17 responses:-) It seems that the issue of human language interoperability is quite important for Ruby users. Unfortunately, most of discussion was along the lines of most efficient English to Japanese translation. I would rather touch a slightly different topic. Ruby is already a truly international phenomenon with tens of thousand users and scores of developers in all countries and continents speaking dozens of various languages. English is the language that majority of Ruby users and developers can understand even though English might not be their mother tongue (like in may case). It is a matter of fact that English (whether we like it or not) is a defacto standard in _ALL_ software projects with diverse user base. On this basis I would suggest to make Ruby English home the _MAIN_ Ruby portal with Japanese and other languages translating from it. As of now it is otherwise around -- International (aka English) web site is clearly a second class citizen. I have nothing against Japanese language or Japanese culture. My rational for such suggestion is strictly pragmatic. --Leo-- P.S. It is not my intention to generate any flame wars. I apologize if I inadvertently hurt somebody's feelings. On 12/14/05, Paul Duncan wrote: > * Austin Ziegler (halostatue@gmail.com) wrote: > > On 14/12/05, James Britt wrote: > [snipped] > > Now, what I *really* want to know is what happened to the website > > redesign effort. > > Seconded. I really liked the second one on the redesign page. > > For those of you in the dark, here's what Austin and I are referring to: > > http://redhanded.hobix.com/redesign2005/ > > I think having a snazzy-looking page is important for drawing people in. > > Which, of course, is why most of my sites are in various forms of > disarray ;D. > > -- > Paul Duncan pabs in #ruby-lang (OPN IRC) > http://www.pablotron.org/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0x82C29562 > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDoMlzzdlT34LClWIRAmJcAJ9D1jPCYuS3WHUgDTmHEKtWJdX5VgCfWAiC > IdegAdF3PZGYeSQp0kzg4ts= > =tmCk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >