Hi!

I googled about YUI in Polish language (40M citizens country), and found literally three articles on YUI3. There is more on YUI2, but still not nearly as much as about other JS libraries. Since I'm big fan of library, I want to change this situation. I think YUI3 is superior to any other library in nearly every field and hate that it's not popular here.

To make a change I need you to give me the best practices of popularizing YUI. If you have any experience in your country/state/company/whatever please write it down here. What was efficient way to convince someone to use YUI instead of other libraries or server-side code, why your company choose YUI, do you earn money and how efficient your work is? Anything would be appreciated.

From my research it is obvious that it will never work without texts in Polish here. On my site I have articles in Polish and English and my little spy software show that people from Poland are reading ONLY texts in Polish! They aren't even click on English articles! I don't know why, because I thought we know English. Maybe they are very sure that they can't understand technical texts? Neverthless, it is obvious that YUI needs to be known around the world, and I need the way to tell about this obviousness to others.

Maybe it's good idea to launch new internal project which aims to popularise YUI? Just like the Kubuntu's project timelord http://www.kubuntu.org/news/timelord. I think, it'll be great to have per-country guy responsible for marketing. The profits for him should obvious: this guy is the best coder around so we hire him to do our software. People should kill to be on this position, even if they'll work volounary (but of course they'll have their responsibilites which they MUST do):). Tell me what you think about this idea.

Regards,
Adrian Kalbarczyk

A little background on Poland:

We have good programmers who are educated in many fields of technology (I heard it's oposite to US, where students are prepared to be best in one field, and other fields are sacrificed, but I don't know it!) so they know what is UML, ASM and how to administrate Unix. Our best computer science faculty from most recogisable college - Uniwersity of Warsaw - are wining TopCoder and other competitions for years.

I think these people could introduce some good ideas and code to YUI, if only they knew of its existence!

I have no objection to working with anyone to create localized forums here.

If you want to help me with that, feel free to email me

Adrian,

I agree that the best way for YUI to take root in Poland is for someone bilingual who understands the needs of the Polish developer community takes up the challenge to localize some key resources.

There's a lot of content in the YUI 3 distribution that could serve as a good starting place -- some of the main content pages for Node and Event (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3), key examples, etc. The fact that there aren't a lot of resources in Polish for YUI is a good opportunity to build traffic and form a community around your content.

You might also consider taking some of the content from YUICONF 2009 (http://yuilibrary.com/yuiconf2009/) and delivering it in Polish, either at conferences or to record some developer videos.

Anything you do, please tell us about -- we just tweeted Philippe's site and we'd be happy to help promote yours as well.

-Eric

After the end of my current project, I will try to launch a website about YUI with pages:

1. Why using YUI,
2. How to start using YUI,
3. YUI Theater videos with subtitles - are there plans to include subtitle feature in Yahoo! videos? And if not, will you upload to your servers subtitled versions of these videos?
4. How to contribute,
5. Tutorials,
6. Links to info in English.

Thats for beginning.

The most difficult part of this project for me will be design, because I'm programmer and I know nothing about aesthetics:). So I need someone to do it, anyone interested?:)

Can you point me what are most important things concerning point 1? I use YUI from the beginning and I only know that when I try to use other libraries I always think "in YUI I could write it 10 times faster!":).

Adrian

PS. If Y! videos could handle external subtitles, it would be much easier to maintain translations. It could even contain real-time editor for subtitles so people could author translations while watching. It is absolutely best way to handle this issue! And a good way to beat YouTube at the same time;).

Check out the subtitles here:

http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_ ... ology.html

It's awesome and you can have one video file rather than bunch of them because of hard-coded subtitles.

Adrian