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Re: [ossig] MyOSS Magazine - Call for Papers
I think its good to have a few languages in the magazine, but it
requires a lot of resources and its time consuming when you need
resources to translate and prove read the articles in varies
languages.
In our company, we do publishing in dual language, mandarin and
english and it require a lot of coordination between the article
writer, the translator and the prove reader...
Unless you have a huge number of people willing to spend time and
efford especially in translating the articles, i suggest we
concentrate on english language first until we have enough
contributors for other language..
On 6/14/05, Nicholas Adrian Suppiah <Nicholas@apiit.edu.my> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Its great that there are articles in both languages. Please do go ahead
> and have a section in BM. The language would have to be checked properly
> by the editor. As for translation, I suggest that its left out for the
> moment to encourage interesting contents.
>
> A summary of the article in BM can be made if time permits.
>
> Good work!
>
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> From: owner-ossig@mncc.com.my [mailto:owner-ossig@mncc.com.my] On Behalf
> Of Ow Mun Heng
> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 8:08 PM
> To: ossig@mncc.com.my
> Subject: Re: [ossig] MyOSS Magazine - Call for Papers
>
> On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 21:32 +1000, Colin Charles wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 19:14 +0800, Ditesh wrote:
> > > > > Then we can take out the Malaysian from "Malaysian Online Open
> > > Source
> > > > > Magazine".
> > > >
> > > > To me It was M'sia because it started here and supported by the
> > > local
> > > > community.
> > >
> > > Correct, and it's ok for publications to be language specific (you
> > > don't
> > > see The Star printing articles in BM do you?).
> > >
> > > But in the interest of uniting and building the community, perhaps a
> > > mixed bag might be a good idea for now.
> >
> > Please do provide a translation. I'm distributing this out of the
> > country (in physical form, just as well)
>
> >
> > That aside, the moment you start introducing content that is only
> > language specific, boom!, your readership isn't going to dramatically
> > increase (I think). At best, dual it
>
> Okay.. Here's how I look at it. Right now, seems like people are
> positive into including a localised version of the Mag as well as an
> international version. In light of the future BM(or Chinese) articles
> which I will receive, it would be best that we have 2 versions of each
> article, 1 in BM and another in English. (where If original article was
> written in BM, then there _should_ be a corresponding article translated
> in English)
>
> In Terms of how to bundle it together such that ppl who choose to print
> it, I will separate the BM and English articles.
>
>
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