[advocacy-discuss] Updated OpenSolaris.org metrics

[Jim Grisanzio]

Qingye Jiang (John) wrote:
> Localization includes three parts, (1) the localization of the user 
> interface,

That's coming in the new site.

> (2) the localization of the content, 


Which will be much easier with the new site.

> and (3) the promotion 
> needed so that people know that localized portal / content exists and 
> the way to use it. 

Totally agree. This takes time, too.

> Step (1) is relatively easy, and currently this has 
> been accomplished for many languages. 

Well, on our current site, anyway, it's only a temporary solution. I 
want very much for the current portals to go away when we have the 
ability to localized the /entire/ site.

> Step (2) depends heavily on the 
> availability of resouces. Since we are still in a pre-mature stage not a 
> lot of people (either from within or without Sun) are involved in 
> converting / localizing contents from English to other languages. 

That's true. I think this remains a huge opportunity for community 
building in the future.

> The 
> situation is, we have created many of the so-called language portals, 
> but there exist not enough content to fill them up or even keep them up 
> to date. 

Yes, they are basically hacked project spaces with a tiny amount of 
content. A very awkward solution, admittedly,  but at least we started 
somewhere. :) The real purpose was only to start the process of building 
some language communities around site content. We knew full well that 
the site was limited in this area. Thankfully, those days are rapidly 
coming to an end. :)

> Step (3) is even more difficult. You have some good stuff there 
> does mean that people will come visit you, simply because they don't 
> know about the existance of your good stuff. For example, many Sun 
> employees in China does not know that we have a Chinese portal on 
> opensolaris.org.
>   

Same is true in Japan, actually.

> If we want to attract more non-US-based / non-English -speaking folks to 
> opensolaris.org, we will need to make significant improvements in both 
> (2) and (3).
>
> I myself is runing an OpenSolaris-focused website in China. Every month 
> it gets about the same number of IP address as opensolaris.org as 
> indicated in the metrics. That's to say, not all the people who are 
> interested in OpenSolaris will go to opensolaris.org..
Very interesting. I've heard this opinion from others as well. Thanks, 
John.

Jim

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