DesignSpark community website now in French with continued know-how and information

RS Components has had a significant expansion of DesignSpark with the launch of a French version of the online engineering community, enabling French-speaking customers to engage with other engineers and to access content and tool support in their native language. The online community website now has more than 570,000 members in more than 200 countries, enabling them to engage with fellow engineers globally through comments, questions and the contribution of articles. Launched in July 2010 and initially available in the English, German, Japanese and simplified Chinese languages, the DesignSpark ecosystem offers online design resources and free downloadable tools to professional engineers, makers, hobbyists and students. The French version of the site is the first new language version introduced since the inception of DesignSpark just over seven years ago. “This is yet another important expansion in the development of the DesignSpark community”, said Mike Bray, vice president of DesignSpark at RS. “Bringing French-speaking members even more into the fold of the DesignSpark community, DesignSpark’s reach is truly global with more than half a million members across the world using the site to download tools and share information.”