Takaaki Higuchi wrote: >Bastian, Waldo wrote: >> The problem with the disconnect between the asian markets and current >> open source development communities is that in the above analysis these >> markets classify as a whole in the "free rider" category which makes >> them essentially uninteresting for the development community. A >> loose-loose situation for both sides. >Some might be "free rider", but language barrier is very high >for us in my observation at least in Japan.
To be clear, I used "free rider" in quotes to refer to the group of people that do not contribute back as mentioned in the earlier example, I don't want to imply any moral judgement with that term. I understand that there are cultural and language barriers that contribute to if not cause this situation. My point is that all parties would benefit if we would find a solution to overcome these barriers. >There are so many localized development efforts, but sometimes >they are not put back to the upstreams. In most of cases, >there are some mis or no communications because of language barrier. So what can be done to overcome such barrier? I'm inclined to think of bi-langual liasion persons, or maybe a liason group whose mission it is to facilitate the integration of patches in upstream projects. Not sure how scalable that is. The extra indirection would also be a bit of a drag on the efficiency of the whole process. What do other people think about this? Cheers, Waldo _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects
