ReadWriteWeb Lance Une Version Française
Parlez-vous français? No neither do I, apart from the smattering of French I learnt at the beginning of high school. But to cater to our friends in Europe, we've just opened a French language version of ReadWriteWeb. The idea was suggested by Romain Péchard, who approached us about translating our articles into French and also writing unique content about the Europe web scene. Romain and his team have basically taken the ball and rolled with it (prendre le ballon et a roulé avec lui), designing and organizing the new site.
RWW France will be covering the Web 2.0 Expo Berlin 2008 next week and they have tickets to give away if you're one of our European readers.
The RWW France team is led by Romain Péchard, social media evangelist for Feedback2.0 (a French startup) who started working on blogs and community management in 2004, and has worked in the past for SixApart S.A, Netvibes, and as Web 2.0 expert at a French web agency.
Romain gave us some background on why RWW France was created and what they plan to do with the site, along with profiles of the team:
"ReadWriteWeb France was started with the purpose of providing French people another way to read about the web and learn from it. We intend to make the French version not just a translation of the ReadWriteWeb website, but to add to it the French point of view and market knowledge of web experts who have joined the French team - as well as original content to highlight and analyze what's currently happening in Europe, starting with the Web 2.0 Expo Berlin coverage next week.
The French team includes Fabrice Epelboin, entrepreneur and partner at Aladia (branding & strategic consulting shop) and social web consultant at Kantik.com; Damien Douani, Concept & Business Development Manager at Orange / Innovation department - explocentre; Jeremie Moritz, Business Manager Southern Europe - Metaboli (online content distribution); and Charles Liebert, Digital & Interactiv Marketing Manager at Orange Vallée as an occasional author."
Welcome Romain and team, thanks for translating us into French and we look forward to reading your original content (via Google Translate probably).
p.s. Kudos to eagle-eyed Techcrunch France writer Ouriel Ohayon, who spotted RWW France as soon as it began posting.
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RWW starts expansion uh?. well. i cannot speak it or write it well but i do can read it well enough. will keep an eye on it.
C'est ce qui s'appelle "prendre le ballon au rebond", ;-)))
Ou plus simplement : "Prendre la balle au bond" ;o)
Bienvenue à ReadWriteWeb France ! Great news, and already subscribed...
Alain and Olivier, hey I blame Google Translate for any mis-translation on that one ;-) My third form French didn't extend much beyond counting to five and saying "oui" and "merci".
Thanks for the support. We're aiming at the same quality as the English version and the French team has been formed on purpose.
C'est cool ça !
Glad to be part in this exciting adventure, I'm sure we'll find some unique European content to digg :)
Great news :)
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I'm so glad to see this french initiative. I'll read it!
-Julien (Québec, Canada)
Bravo Romain!!!
Et hop, un nouveau feed de qualité dans mon RSS reader!
Maybe I should start reading to brush up on my high school French! Great to see RWW looking toward other countries and languages.
Allez, voyons voir si Techcrunch.fr a du souci à se faire ;) Bon courage les gars.
Congrats on the expansion! Maybe a NZ site next??
I would try some french - after 5 yrs in HS/College you'd think I remember it all but nope.
NZ? Isn't that a part of Australia? Never heard of it...
Yes my high school french is long forgotten, sadly. Thank goodness for Google Translate (and before that Babelfish)
Congrats to Romain and Fabrice. Great initiative. Lemme know it we can help.