I think the best idea for support in other languages is to translate wiki. I mean, this is the firt point were you look for help
Rgards,
Santiago
> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:27:30 -0300
> From: egghunt@gmail.com
> To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH in latin america countries
>
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Santiago Gimenez Ocano
> <sxntixgo@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm native speaker and I know that my english isn't quite good. As far I can
> > see there are two issues here:
> >
> > 1. Having people that can support in spanish
> >
> > 2. Splitting the community
> >
> > Even thogh there is the slang problem, I think that the support given by
> > Brian, Anth, Mike, Norm, etc is excellent and I don't know if anyone how
> > speaks spanish can do as same as they do.
>
> No, their support is the best we could get, none spanish nor
> portuguese speaker could achieve that now. At least none known.
>
> >
> > Also, I think is better for the project to have one direction and having
> > only one support chat is important to achive this.
> >
> > On top of this, what would happend if somebody else wants to have a chat
> > room in his/her own language?
> >
> > It's possible to have people supporting in other languages in #freeswitch?
>
> I think we can go more objective in this thread: do you guys think
> it's a better idea to drop the spanish/portuguese channel and think
> about it when it's actually needed ? The feedback about the idea of
> having #freeswitch-la was bad... and I, of course, don't want to split
> anything here. :)
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Santiago
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 13:47:01 -0500
> >> From: jlists@skopis.com
> >> To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH in latin america countries
> >>
> >> J. Javier Maestro wrote:
> >> > On Jun Sun 08 2008 12:11, John Skopis (Lists) wrote:
> >> >> example:
> >> >> skopii: que estas me hombres
> >> >> bot: [skopii] where are my homies
> >> >> bkw: skopii: right here
> >> >>
> >> >> then the bot would translate bkw's response and pm it to me
> >> >
> >> > Wow!! Stop right there please! :)
> >> >
> >> > Where are my homies? --> Dónde están mis colegas/amigos? (España)
> >> >
> >> > And because slang words are frequently used in IRC, things like 'homies'
> >> > is
> >> > most surely translated in a completely different way in every
> >> > spanish-speaking country within latin america... so I really can't see
> >> > the
> >> > point on automatic translation. It's horrible! There is not enough A.I.
> >> > in
> >> > the software to do it correctly, so it is very doomed right from the
> >> > begining.
> >>
> >> Clearly my spanish is horrible. What is easier to understand though:
> >>
> >> que esta me hombres
> >> or
> >> dónde está mi homies
> >>
> >> and that is a simple sentence. Things only get more interesting with
> >> more complex constructs.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > It is a nice idea, but an impossible one :-/
> >> >
> >> > My 2 cents!
> >> >
> >>
> >> My point was to make a "best effort". We all know it wouldn't be
> >> perfect. It's certainly not impossible.
> >>
> >> If everyone is in the same channel, everyone benefits from the
> >> discussion. In addition it would help non-english speakers learn english
> >> and english speakers pick up some other languages (bits and pieces at
> >> least).
> >>
> >> Also, what happens when there is no one that knows the answer in the
> >> non-english channel? The non-english speaker comes into the main channel
> >> (out of his/her comfort zone) and has a difficult time because no one
> >> understands him/her. It's hard enough for some people just to ask a
> >> question, let alone in a different language. That is why I think we
> >> should make a best effort to make it easier for everyone.
> >>
> >> Often times a translated block of text is easier to understand than a
> >> non-native english speaker attempting english. Granted, my perspective
> >> is one sided as I do not know if that is true for other languages (I
> >> only speak english).
> >>
> >> Anyway, I am wasting my breath at this point. Everyone (not just us
> >> americans) will do as they please anyway. ;]
> >>
> >>
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