Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-31 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Norbert, Norbert Thiebaud wrote on 2012-05-30 17:37: Just to be clear: It is not my position that we should be excluding people who contribute to the success of LibreOffice and the foundation, just because they don't speak English. oh, no, don't get me wrong - didn't want to put words in

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-31 Thread David Emmerich Jourdain
Hi All, 2012/5/31 Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Hi Norbert, Norbert Thiebaud wrote on 2012-05-30 17:37: Just to be clear: It is not my position that we should be excluding people who contribute to the success of LibreOffice and the foundation, just because they don't

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-31 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:55 AM, David Emmerich Jourdain jourd...@gmx.de wrote: If the MC need help to translation, I think I can help, 'cause I have knowledge in some languages. I already had offered my help in another situation and I offer again, if the MC wishes. As I said earlier, that

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-31 Thread sophie
Hi all, On 31/05/2012 14:10, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi Norbert, Norbert Thiebaud wrote on 2012-05-30 17:37: Just to be clear: It is not my position that we should be excluding people who contribute to the success of LibreOffice and the foundation, just because they don't speak English.

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-31 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, sophie wrote on 2012-05-31 17:23: What we need is some abilities to provide localization (like in QA or on the wiki) in order to inform and attract a large variety of members, but if the communication goes well, membership committee will never be concerned by translating applications.

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-30 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, I would like to second Charles' thoughts. While the legal authority language is German, as we are based in Germany, the main language of correspondence inside the BoD's bodies, and also towards our members, is English, since that's the lowest common denominator most of us share, and

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-30 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hello, However, most of us is not all of us, and indeed it is one of our strenghts that we have a wide, open and diverse community, active in many countries and on many languages. I really feel

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-23 Thread drew jensen
On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 08:25 -0500, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:36 AM, sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: This is what language communities are supposed to do : give those who don't speak English a chance to be part of the project. We can't rely only on English

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-23 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:59 AM, drew jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 08:25 -0500, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:36 AM, sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: This is what language communities are supposed to do : give those who don't speak

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-23 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Norbert, Norbert Thiebaud wrote (23-05-12 16:47) To go back to the original issue: Hé, that was mine ;-) 1/ I have no problem with TDF developing alternative way to 'recognize' people. But that is more a Internal Marketing/Community Management topic than a MC topic. My idea is the

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-22 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote: Hi all, When inviting people in the Dutch language community to consider membership of TDF, two items showed up. 1. Not all active people are familiar enough with the beautiful English language to feel comfortable to use

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-22 Thread Charles-H.Schulz
Hello Norbert, Cor, all, Le mardi 22 mai 2012 à 08:25 -0500, Norbert Thiebaud a écrit : On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:36 AM, sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: This is what language communities are supposed to do : give those who don't speak English a chance to be part of the project. We

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-22 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, Thanks for the thoughts... Charles-H.Schulz wrote (22-05-12 18:43) I'll try to go back to the initial two questions. The first one, the one of the language, is an important one. To my very own surprise (and partial misunderstanding) we have lots of enthusiastic volunteers who *do and