[Koha-devel] www.koha-fr.org, new look

[Paul POULAIN]

Russel Garlick a écrit :
> I think we need to make it clear that Koha is the product of a project 
> and is *not* what appears to be a company or other entity. So following 
> this train of though the Koha template should not be used by individual 
> companies to promote their own services. There are no Koha franchises or 
> official Koha regions given to individual companies to exploit.
> 
> I was under the impression that Paul and Henri were taking the content 
> of the koha.org site, which is all in English. And translating it into 
> French to make it more accessible for this audience. I welcome any 
> attempt to make the Koha message avaible in different languages and more 
> accessible. If anyone wants to take the content of the site and 
> translate it into any other language, great! lets talk :-)

I 100% agree with you. "Local sites" should be seen as 
"language-localized site" and nothing else.

I explain what we tried to do with koha-fr.org :
* At the very beginning I had a fr.koha.org, with katipo tools, on 
katipo server. The problem being that, travelling the world for every 
request was really slow. so I decided to go to koha-fr.org, with a 
server physically in france.
* At 1st, it was a strict copy of koha.org (koha.org lists all companies 
supporting Koha commercially, i'm listed on koha.org as well as on 
koha-fr.org in fact ;-) )
* Then, I thought it could be a good place for some news. Thus we added 
a "what's new" corner.
* Then, I got many questions from some (canadian) libraries. I answered 
all of them, and thought it could be interesting to put them public. 
What could be the best place ? koha-fr.org, of course. Thus, I added a 
"features" corner, with each module (acquisition, cataloguing, 
circulation...) being detailled, with a FAQ for each of them.
* Finally, I was asked for some very specific tricks, and added a "Koha 
hints" corner (that has only a few pages, but I expect it will grow)

Now, I think we have a site that could last for some time. Henri-Damien 
and I can write on it, but also Daniel, from Canada (he wrote only 1 
page iirc). Any other french volunteer can request a login to be a writter.

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Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT
Consultants indépendants
en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org)