Re: [Bodington-developers] internationalisation arrangements

[Paul T. <pau...@co...>]

At 13:03 11/07/2005, Alistair Young wrote:
>>what would the wages be?

< ... >

>It's also the case that the contributor does the maintenance.

This is an important point, I think, and in practice I guess would need the 
weight of a production level deployment in that language.

>Of course, bodington.org identifying a target audience that could
>dramatically increase it's takeup and allocating funds for
>translations to target that market is another matter entirely.
>
>So the question is, will Bod in Thai make a difference to usage
>commensurate with financial outlay?

At this stage, one extra Bodington service at any University in any 
language would be a significant boost, but in general French and Spanish 
are of course far more widespread and worth extra Euros...

- Paul

>Alistair
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>On 11 Jul 2005, at 12:42, Paul Trafford wrote:
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>>I recently asked a friend from Thailand (researcher in computer
>>science) whether he knew anyone who might like to translate
>>Bodington into Thai.  His first question was: what would the wages be?
>>
>>So what are the arrangements?  Is there some financial provision?
>>Does it depend upon the language?  What happens about the support?
>>
>>- Paul
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>>Paul Trafford
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>>Oxford University Computing Services
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