Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

[Sylvain Wallez]

Nathaniel Alfred wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Goers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2005 17:30
To: dev@cocoon.apache.org
Subject: Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list
   

 

As far as the list goes, I'm generally OK with it but it makes me
   

wonder
 

what happens when someone wants a list in German, Italian, Spanish,
Klingon, or whatever.  It would be a lot nicer if there was one list
   

and
 

when you subscribed and specified you spoke French it translated it for
you (and back on replies as well).  Sigh - well, I can dream.
   

 

Ralph
   

I had a similar reaction.  There are more people out there who can follow 
written English but don't dare to write questions in English.
That's exactly the purpose of this list. There are two obstacles for 
many of them:
- the language: they don't feel able to write correct english, even if 
*we* now that it's not that hard to be understood,
- explaining their problem in public: this is more a social issue for 
people not used to communicate outside of their company or workgroup.

These two obstacles combined keeps them away from our lists. Being able 
to ask their questions in their native language is a way to remove one 
obstacle, thus helping them finding their way to the community, and 
hopefully join the english lists also.

So yes, the ultimate goal is to use this french-speaking list as an 
education tool for people to join the "real and full" community.

I also remember occasions where people were told off for posting non-English on 
Cocoon mailing lists.
I'd rather propose to make it public policy on the user list that one may post 
a question in any language.  If the language is not English, the poster accepts 
that either
a) the answer may be in the same language, or
b) the answer may be in English, or 
c) there may be no answer
 

IMO that would be terrible, leading many people to simply leave the list 
because of the low signal/noise ratio, because something written in a 
language you don't understand is similar to noise.

Cheers, Alfred (reading English/French/German/Spanish but answering only
in English)
 

Impressive list!
Sylvain
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