and let us not forget.......

in Canada we need our Corn Flakes to have Anglais en avant and French in the rear.....


or was that the bottle of VO

I wanted to clarify the reason for identifying French as the first translation. This is simply to comply with the legal requirements in Canada that web sites be available in both English and French.

We are developing the architectural framework to support a range of translations for launch in 2006. Unfortunately this is more complicated than translating HTML pages because parts of our site are database driven or driven off of resource files that also need to be translated.

As soon as we complete our project planning, we will post the schedules and how to collaborate on translations.

Thank you

bhdolph I appreciate your feedback, however I believe the asumption is incorrect:

1. Legal Regulation requires that Government web sites are bilingual.
2. The Department of Foreign Affairs has issued Recommendation 17 - which is a REQUEST - and not a legal binding law, to Foreign Embassies in Canada. the request can be found here: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/pubs/fr_internet/part6_e.cfm

and just to put this into perspective, the number of PCs in non english speaking countries that are potential wcg crunches are ranked as follows. The legal requirements of web sites in the local official language for these countries also exist:

Japan ~60million
Germany ~40million
China ~35million
French speaking Nations in Europe and America ~32million
French speaking Canada ~4,5million
(these are not the very latest stats, however only China is growing faster than any other country which doesn't change Canada's position)

If I am missing something, then please correct me, however the data seems to indicate something different and the legal grounds incorrect.

Certainly the domain name worldcommunitygrid.org is not registered in Canada.

bhdolph --

I think one of the key items contained in this discussion was what I had pointed out earlier in it. It might be worthwhile as a subset of the entire national language effort to provide paths for installation and registration of the grid software. That could payoff in more than just enabling those who do not speak English to participate in the WCG. It could also provide you with a smaller environment within which to test ideas and scale the major effort. Just the musings of an old programmer and project manager

Best Regards,