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Ngobrol Pengaya Mozilla

rodin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:44:42 +0000

in English: Mozilla Add-ons Development Talk

Sudah pernah pake Pengaya? Penasaran bagaimana cara pengembangannya? Yuk ketemuan di kampus ITS Sukolilo Surabaya!

Tempat persisnya di Taman Sistem Informasi (sebelah Graha ITS)
Waktu: 24 April 2009 14:00 sehabis jumatan gitu deh!
Pembicara: saya :p, pengembang Purezilla, pengembang HΛnif
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Yuk ah ditunggu!

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My Internet is in English

rodin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:23:30 +0000

FreSh Jumat malam kemarin adalah acara pertama saya sebagai anggota komunitas Mozilla untuk tampil sebagai pembicara. Topik yang saya presentasikan adalah tentang sekitar Mozilla Firefox Indonesia dalam hubungannya dengan penggunaan Bahasa Indonesia di Internet. Satu pertanyaan yang mengganjal di pikiran saya selama ini saya keluarkan: mengapa butuh Bahasa Inggris hanya untuk ber-Internet ria?

Tentu saja, menggunakan Bahasa Indonesia dalam perangkat lunak/gadget/situs web s*cks. Although it s*cks for you, maybe it won’t s*ck the other. If you don’t like it, don’t use it . Stop complaining, start to care for other Indonesian people, won’t you?. The web is not only for you, that’s all.

Terima kasih buat Ivan Lanin, Catur, Pitra, dkk. You guys rocks!

Update:

The report is here and here.

Aulia wonders something. What’s the irony actually? Is it just because the topics is about Indonesian language and the speakers doesn’t even bother to use Indonesian language in a right way?

Why English in Websites?

rodin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:02:30 +0000

There are 2 websites mentioned on Okto’s blog (hell yeah, I read those entries at Planet Terasi every day). And I also have take a look at another 2 websites, 2.0 slogan included or a tweet-like functionality expanded.

A friend of mine stares at me when I logon to Facebook with Indonesian user interface. She laughs when she saw my Facebook. You probably heard the term “unduh” lately. Why (not) Bahasa Indonesia?

This question is always popping out of my mind everytime I take a look for Indonesian websites. Is this a cost of <insert Microsoft Windows term here> monoculture (pirate version included) or we are just lazy using computer terms in Indonesian? How many of you installed Indonesian LIP for Windows XP or Vista?

My first highly unscientific guess is that English term is always shorter and we hear it everytime, we saw it everytime, so we use it everytime, and get stuck with it. Even now as early as elementary school. How many elementary students know what is “ponsel“? They call it using its “English” abbreviation, spelled in Indonesian way. Heck, even English people call it “cell phone” or “mobile”, people in Germany call them “handy“, and French are using “portable“.

And then another questions pop out. Are we:

using English because the developer of the website is only know the common UI words for the website in English? (Home, Login, Search, Register, About Us, Back, Top, bla bla bla..)
using English because the target user is the people that already familiar with English websites and using Bahasa Indonesia is just too weird, and make use of it will slowdown our speed to socialize?
using English because we don’t really care who is the target user and we don’t really care as long as I got my job done
using Bahasa Indonesia is not “cool” enough, doesn’t attract people?
promoting English first, Indonesian second?

Why am I complaining? I even wrote this in my poor English.
Maybe I’m OMDO, I don’t have any stat here, do I?