On 20 oct. 10, at 00:05, Marc Paré wrote: > I was under the impression that we were all in agreement, that the "lingua > franca" of the mailists is English and that localized mailists were to > encourage users to contribute in their own language.
I think that is a mistaken view of the issues at hand. There should be English specific lists so that English speakers can contribute in English to whatever issue they have. We need to have strict formal equality between linguistic communities for the TDF/LibO to be really based on a democratic process. Then, there should be global lists where global discussions take place. Such lists would obviously gather a less important number of involved people and could be a place where multilingual information is exchanged. Sanitizing everything through English when most contributors are not English natives is not a realistic approach. > Therefore, we should then make sure that information/issues from the > localized mailists is passed on to the main English mailist through either > the mailist moderator or some ambassador/spokesperson to the localized > mailists to assure the flow of information to the SC or appropriate decision > making group. This is totally unrealistic and reduces the contribution of non English speakers to the filter of their spokeperson when no filtering takes place for English speakers. > Maybe we should work on improving the process of the reporting of localized > groups' concerns to the main English mailists. No. The problem is to ensure that there is a good signal/noise ratio on supposedly global lists and whatever S/N ratio on language specific lists. We do not have to reproduce the English based corporate structure of Sun/Oracle in TDF. This is a thing of the past. Jean-Christophe Helary ---------------------------------------- fun: http://mac4translators.blogspot.com work: http://www.doublet.jp (ja/en > fr) tweets: http://twitter.com/brandelune -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
