Re: Managing International Sites

2017-11-28 23:28 GMT+01:00 Damien Clochard <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info>:

> Le 28.11.2017 22:20, Jonathan S. Katz a écrit :
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When going through an unrelated audit of the site contact, I was
>> looking at our International Site page here:
>>
>> https://www.postgresql.org/community/international/
>>
>> …and when going through the links, noticed a bunch of the sites were
>> either dead, unsupported, or placeholders, including:
>>
>> * Chinese (Simplified)
>> * Cubana
>> * Español (all 3 listed)
>> * Greek
>> * Italiano (Associazione Italian PostgreSQL Users Group)
>>
>> Additionally, others sites have not been updated for at least a year.
>>
>> Before removing the dead links, I wanted to raise the following:
>>
>> 1. Do the maintainers need to update the URLs? If so please contact
>> me ASAP. I would like to remove them by the end of the week.
>> 2. Do we feel that the international sites still provide value to
>> the community at large? This is mainly to solicit feedback and not
>> start a fight. Personally I am happy for us to monitor the sites (see
>> point #3), but I want to ensure that these sites help drive adoption
>> and usage of Postgres.
>> 3. If we are going to continue having the international sites as a
>> feature, we need some community guidelines similar to what we setup
>> for the NPOs and community events. I would be happy to take charge on
>> that if there are no objections.
>>
>>
> 1. The link to the French speaking website should be
> https://www.postgresql.fr/ ( instead of http://www.postgresqlfr.org/ )
>
> 2. Yes the French websites provides values to the community ! We have a
> forum, a blog, the documentation, a wiki, etc... I think it'd be
> interesting to add more links between the .org sites and the .fr sites. For
> instances, it would be cool if every documentation page had a link to the
> similar page in the French documentation, allowing readers to switch easily
> between the original version and their own language
>
> 3. The postgresql.fr domain and the hosting service are paid by the
> PostgreSQLFr association. The sysadmin team that operates it is open and
> autonomous. The PostgreSQLfr association also holds most of the social
> networks accounts (twitter, G+, linkedin, youtube, etc.) with another
> dedicated team to manage those accounts. Lats year, we defined a set of
> guidelines regarding the use of these accounts (link below) and we'd be
> happy to share our experience :
>
> https://www.postgresql.fr/asso/charte_des_outils_de_communication
>
>
If need be, I +1 everything Damien just said there. There's a huge work on
the translation of the manual, on the web forums, and on the NPO.

--
Guillaume.