Should I start our own community?

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I've been using c5 for the last few years, and it has been the most profitable software I've used so far.

We have privately translated loads of stuff, developed a little, and bought a bunch. By the end of February, c5's core will be fully translated in Bulgarian, as well as a few major components, and many more to come.

I would like to start our own community because we are way ahead of any public releases in our language. There are a few things that puzzle me, though.

1) How does c5 support its international communities? Does the company provide any official add-ons free of charge, such as the Discussion Forums add-on or anything really?
2) I would be happy for us to come up with our own design, however this is going to lead to direct costs. Does c5 provide any ready-to-use templates to make its brand identity international? Don't get me wrong, I'm not being cheap here, it's just your way of doing things made me look for integrity everywhere.
Plus, if I can avoid direct costs to help other people, that would be nice.
3) We are going to translate the documentation as well. Is there any way to make the intelligent search to look through our version of it?
4) Why is there no way to set a page type's name to something in non-latin characters?

I was going to privmsg someone from the core team about these questions but I do believe we can start a community FAQ here.

VPenkov
 
frz replied on at Permalink Reply
frz
Hi

Lets see...

1) We have in the past, but as the next version of concrete5 will see discussions built into the core for free I'd suggest just waiting for that.

2) You should try to make your site look like your site, not like ours. Please do link back to concrete5.org if you use our logo on it. If you do put something up, we'll happily link to it from our international area.. A lot of people have started by hosting a local meetup.

3 & 4) These are technical questions that you should probably just go ahead with and repost on their own. Yes, I'm sure both are possible - but I'm not the fellow who would know how.

best
-frz