Hi, In Romania, and especialy around my area there are both people speacking romanian and hungarian.
On the Romanian forum, wiki, irc and mailingist we use Romanian language, as it is the official language in our country. All people speacking hungarian are welcomed on the hungarian website, forum, wiki, irc. Jani Monoses, has created a special distribution based on Ubuntu that ships with language support for Romanian and Hungarian. This distribution is supported on both forums for each specific language. We do not deny the usage of a specific language on any of the Romanian team web resources, but for example a support request in hungarian has little chance to be solved on the Romanian forum, as there are very few active hungarian speackers. But such request can be solved on the Hungarian forum, For the translation team, we have dedicated the Romanian team for translating Ubuntu into Romanian language (not for Romanian country) and we accept all members speacking Romanian (we have members from The Republic of Moldova) I hope this information was useful. In case of further questions, please do ask! Kindest regards, Adi În data de Du, 19-10-2008 la 14:14 +0200, Savvas a scris: > Being one of the contacts for the Cypriot Ubuntu LoCo team, I have > been asked in the past when the team was shaping up, what would we do > about the language spoken on the forums and about the two communities > speaking Greek and Turkish. The official languages are English, Greek, > as well as Turkish. > > To anyone who isn't informed about the Cypriot problem, the island was > invaded by Turkey/Turkish troops (my topic is not that, read the wiki > page [1]). There was inter-communal violence commited by both sides, > and the point I want to note is that the problem as you see is rather > political and a matter of trust. > > On the one hand, I don't want to restrict their liberty of free > speech, but on the other hand, when it comes to understanding each > other using Greek and Turkish.. we might have a problem in the long > run, when Turkish-Cypriots decide to join (Until now, we have only > Greek-Cypriots members, except for an original translator, who I > cannot find anymore). > > As it is now, the forum (maintained by two truly active persons) is > allowed Greek, English and Turkish [2] and I have set the mailing list > rules to be strictly expressed in English for announcement kind of > type messages, whereas support/questions are allowed in one of the > three languages [3] > > Regarding when to allow Greek/Turkish being spoken at the forum and > how to control them furthermore.. any ideas or anyone with similar > experience? > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus > [2] http://www.ubuntucy.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=49#p188 > [3] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-cy/2008-October/000116.html > -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
