mandag 14. mars 2005, 18:34, skrev Jonas Smedegaard: > So maybe the additional maintainance burden on all language > teams was chosen deliberately in order to preserve the > freedom of everybody being the webmaster or something?
Education is usually the largest public enterprise in every western country today. If every news flash or document should be published from a master language, this would be both overwhelming, and not always relevant for other countries. It will also be a bottleneck for contributors that are not so fluent in other languages than their own. So we wanted a bottom up approach on most of the stuff, and some top down approach when English is the work language. I've already got complaints that there is not enough information on Norwegian, so will fix that. Then we translate our work to English that has a more general value for everyone. It's important that the website contains localised information for the teachers. This issue cant be underestimated, and is one of the reasons there is around 200 Skolelinux-installations in Norway, and not so many Linux-installations at all in Sweden or Denmark .... It's more important that people contribute, than scare teachers away with elite questions that enforces English as a first language. We does this the other way around, and ask gently if somebody could translate to English if the have the time. It's much more important to get the contribution - than do stop the activity by enforcing a to strict language policy - that could scare people away. The main goal in Skolelinux is to give people computer languages in their own mother thong, and sometimes people choose to do it in their own language, despite of the idea of centralisation that English would give :-) - K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
