Der IBM-Konzern ist eben in halbwegs selbstständige Ländergesellschaften aufgeteilt, in Deutschland die IBM Deutschland GmbH mit zig weiteren Tochtergesellschaften.
WCG wird von der IBM Corporation in den USA gemanagt - kein Wunder also, dass man in Deutschland keine Ressourcen dafür einsetzen möchte. Schon gar nicht in der aktuellen WIrtschaftslage, in der auf den Ländergesellschaften hoher Druck hinsichtlich Profitabilität ausgeübt wird. Da gibt es aus rein betriebswirtschaftlicher Sicht kein Argument zur direkten Unterstützung eines Projektes der Muttergesellschaft ...

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As a courtesy for other members that don´t speak Deutsch, could you kindly post in English language your last post , so all understand , and let´s try to keep this in English if possible

best regards and thanks

JP,
sorry for not translating my posting. I answered to the following posting:

WCG is a project of the IBM Corporation. I understand that IBM Germany as a business unit with own business targets and responsibilitites will not be excited to provide resources for the translation of the WCG website without any cost recovery. This may be the reason for Martin.Schnellingers statement "They are simply not interested in worldcommunitygrid."

Greetings

Most people in Europe speak English sufficiently well to order some food or ask for their way or to serve some food or to direct someone. Someone leaving school at an age of 16 however (and this is what some 57% (wikipedia) are doing) I would say has no chance whatsoever to understand even the WCG home page. And also I am not so very confident that the majority of the others would understand basic words like "donate", "participate" or "join". More important may be to attract those aged 14+ while still at school and lower their entry a bit.

What would rather dramatically help IMHO is not to provide complete translations but some popups with synonyms and/or translations of the words used. This way you'd spare the need to update many translations in paralllel, IBM can show off with some JavaScript skills, and it is not so very difficult at all, uh, sorry, no, this is enormously difficult, please Big Blue, impress us.

@ JP

This is exactly what i wanted to suggest with my start-post here

Not to worry too, but most of the "older" people in CH / AT / D can't speak english and shurely not science-english, so they want to understand in what projects they spend their time and they
want to get these information in the motherlaguage or they let it be.... It's perhaps a little bit lazy or bullheaded but it's a fact

Greez Marcel