On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Tomeu Vizoso<[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 13:38, Luke Faraone<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 07:15, Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Please join if you would like to participate in discussions about >>> Sugar development in Spanish. >> >> Won't this have the side effect of a segmented development community? > > It has all the downsides of creating a new mailing list. But given the > low (almost null) participation in the existing mailing lists of the > people who this new list is targeted, I think the benefits will > outgrow the downsides.
The education nature of the project is engaging many people who are not traditional open source contributors. This is an excellent out reach opportunity. >> On >> which list would consensus be authoritative? > > If someone is opposed to someone else doing something, then that > feedback needs to reach that someone else. I see how this can get > messy but unless we bar participation in the community of people who > don't speak english, we'll need to find a way to cope with this. I'll do my best to continue writing in mangled English:( to help keep the bar low for non-native English speaker who might feel their ability to communicate in English is not up to par:) david > Regards, > > Tomeu > > -- > «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. > What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David > Farning > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
