[44net] Re: Please welcome our new Director of Technology, Jon Kemper!

Frederic, At this moment, there clearly is a problem with the technical side of joining the network, as is obvious when you read the many exchanges about that on this list, by people newly joining the IPIP mesh.  It is just to complicated to get going in today's internet environment. A technical project to make it much easier to connect has a high priority in order not to fend off potential new users. But I agree with you that another priority is to get more new users involved.  In many countries the hobby of tinkering with electronics is alive and well, but now they call themselves "makers" and have clubs called "makerspaces" that exist separately from radio amateur clubs. Getting people from those environments interested is the challenge, and having a worldwide network that (at least partly) operates over radio, could make them interested in doing that. Translations do not happen by themselves, at least when you do not count having a button on the site that uses Google Translate to dynamically translate everything.  Also, to do translations it is best to have people from the field itself rather than "professional translators" who may miss a lot of the essential things in a technical paper on www.ampr.org, so users that have selected another language may at first see a more familiar environment but then become frustrated by the text that is not entirely correct and sends them off in the wrong direction... So the best way to get translated pages on the site is to offer to translate them. Rob On 10/16/22 12:34, Frederic Zulian via 44net wrote: