Hello everyone :) On 20/10/2006, at 10:50 PM, Charles Schulz wrote:
after some off list discussions with members of the CJK group, thereseems to be a need for opening a few new and small mailing lists for themembers of the NL groups. In the case of the Asian CJK group, people tell me that they need to know each other better so they need a more "intimate" mailing list for them. I, on the other hand, ackowledge this need, but question wether the[EMAIL PROTECTED] wouldn't be fit for that purpose. I would even go as far as saying that having a separate ML for each new NL group could actually strengthen the walled garden effect, something that is highly undesirable.This is why I would like to ask the NL leads and the existing group coordinators their feelings about this. This is an open discussion, so feel free to express your thoughts on it.
Certainly in some Asian cultures (I can't speak for any others), people are more willing to speak up if they are in a smaller group, and can get to know group members more personally.
One of the reasons you see virtually no Vietnamese women in the free- software world, for example, is that Internet communication means talking directly and quite openly with strangers, and that's _extremely_ uncomfortable for us.
I've spent the past thirty years with one foot in each culture, so I have the bicultural binary "switch" in my head, but I still find online communication uncomfortable. I couldn't do it in Vietnamese.
If people say they need a smaller, culturally-based or other shared- needs-based group, let it run. If it lives on its own merits, it is likely to create input you wouldn't have had otherwise.
from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN
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