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

[Victoria Agazzi]

Hi Wolfang, all,
I agree with you, there are fewer messages in this list, and we
haven'tan active group for that purpose on the gvSIG Community, working
in order to make contents accessible to the gvSIG English users. I've
been, for a while, working as Community Manager of the project,helping
many people and institutions to approach the project, lending a hand to
redirect their needs, but above all their availability for cooperation
in different areas. One of them being the translations, that seems to be
the main reason we identify for the lack of English speaking users and
developers.
What happens with people that do not speak Spanish? they obviously have
more difficulty to start with gvSIG, but IMHO it is not impossible to
collaborate either. Nowadays we have tools that facilitate the
translation of contents(automatic, or so), that indeed we are using them
for the day to day tasks, making then some review processes to improve
those translations, for example.

We are aware of the weaknesses on the issue of language or the official
website, gvsig.org, which could be more than improved, but as the
maintenance of the entire project rests on the gvSIG Associationand
resources are nowadays very limited, that's why we encourage you and all
who cares to make true these great initiatives. Both, Mario Carrera and
me are some of those resources that the Association has to assist in
these tasks.
So I encourage anyone who really wants to make gvSIG one software
available in English, contact us in order to think the best way to
improve the English approach to gvSIG.

Best,
Viqui-.

On 17/05/2013 10:22, Wolfgang Qual wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I think there are more reasons for this "development"; and gvSIGce might not
> be the most important. I don't want to blame anyone, but it surely was
> harmful to the small gvSIG community in Germany. I did not hear so much
> about the fork since then, but it surely has some influence. I think there
> was no presentation about (original) gvSIG at the last FOSSGIS conference
> and this is very bad. The development of QGIS is just amazing (you might
> throw a glance on ohloh.net). Congratulations to them.
>
> Things have changed very much in the last years. I think it was in 2007 when
> we decided to switch to gvSIG, as we did not see that much development on
> QGIS, but lots of activity (and functionality) at the gvSIG project. We
> tried to push this project a bit with our modest resources, organized the
> first German gvSIG user meeting, translated documentation into German etc.
> But still, we are few. 
>
> QGIS seems to have a much more active community - at least in Europe. Adding
> new functionality and improving documentation seems to be easier there - and
> the usage of the English language is surely one key factor. Since the QGIS
> project is a community driven project, the people in the QGIS community seem
> to be more contributors (instead of consumers). I am not aware of what is
> done in the spanish-speaking community - due to the language barrier ;(…
> However, I fear that Simon's view of  the "more vibrant cooperative
> ecosystem" is true.
>
> And sextante - this is really confusing. There was no comment about that
> "development" on the list. I heard about that only by accident. Seems that
> most development of sextante is now done for QGIS. Really sad (if it's
> true).
>
> Best,
> Wolfgang
>
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