[Gvsig_english] The non-spanish speaking gvSIG-community - do we have be to worried?

[Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas]

El 17/05/13 09:00, Valerio escribió:
> Outreach, English-lists and other such things are of little value if you
>
>     can't get people to give the program a try. Still the greatest
>     functionality available in gvSIG is only documented in Spanish. If you
>     drag someone to view gvSIG in action this poses a serious marketing
>     problem.
>
>     --
>     Cheers Simon
>
>
>
> Hi all, 
> I completely agree. First of all, this is a marketing and
> communication problem starting from languages and imho from a very old
> style (and difficult to navigate) official website.
> Obviously Sextante migration to qgis confused users even more.
>
> best regards
>

Regarding documentation, this is a problem that we as a community have
to face. I mean, the idea of "gvSIG has no good docs, ­­«they» need to
improve it" is not really constructive in a free software project.
Everyone is welcomed to write or improve the documentation and the gvSIG
team is there to happily coordinate. gvSIG is a huge software with
hundreds of screens and procedures to document. This is not a task to
two or three people that also have to take care of other also important
tasks.

I don't want to go to the typical free software rant of "you don't like
something? don't complain, fixing is it up to you" but at some level I
insist, this is a responsibility for all of us.

Just for the shake of recognition, the gvSIG quickstart[1] written by
Simon for the OSGeo Live was a good example of contribution to the
project in coordination with the gvSIG team (through myself as a gvSIG
contact at the OSGeo Live project). The quickstart has been translated
into six different languages, by the way.

Regards

[1] http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/gvsig_quickstart.html

-- 
Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
gvSIG Team at Prodevelop
http://www.gvsig.org
http://www.gvsig.com

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