One really import point for us in Europe is the support for
multiple languages. Please note that most (if not all) major
commercial learn platforms made the mistake of not being
localizable from the start, and are paying for this now (figuratively
and literally). I just wanted to mention this, because I doubt there
are many foreign language courses at Sloan or Berklee,
internationalization is easy to forget about when on a tight
schedule, and working on it after the fact is a lot harder than
when it is considered from the start (not to mention that making
something support multiple languages at a later stage requires
more coordination and communication than if it is done from the
start).
This is important.
Finding out that OpenACS is the platform Greenpeace has
chosen, eases my multilingual concerns on the OpenACS side
(although it does not eliminate them). I just hope that the
multilingual features of OpenACS and dotLRN will
"dovetail" as so elegantly stated by Don. Obviously,
the best solution would be one that is independent of dotLRN
and built into OpenACS, making multilingual support a snap.
Can somebody that knows both systems and has
experience in internationalization please comment on this? Who
is working on this?
