On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Chris Johnston <[email protected]>wrote:
> Comments inline. > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:56 AM, YoBoY <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Let me just remind you that lot of Local Community Teams are also > Language > > Teams (correct me if I'm wrong). The only difference is for teams where > the > > language is shared by more than one country. The first Local Community > team > > providing a good online support with a forum, documentation and other > tools > > will become in fact the language support team for all the others. Now > there > > is exceptions like the new Esperanto team. > > Local Community teams are regional teams. > > > Now what do you want. Each team who provide language support split in two > > teams? But where? in Launchpad? everywhere on the network with two names > > (dns, irc, ...)? For the native language support we have to create new > teams > > ? Where a new user searching for support have to go to find online help? > > To use French as an example, There is currently the Ubuntu France > team. It does not make sense for someone in Florida to join that team. > Here is why: they won't be able to attend release parties, events, > etc. > > The recommendation that was made is to create: > > ubuntu-language-fr > > Now.. The Ubuntu France team joins this team.. And it's my > understanding that Quebec has a large French speaking population. So > maybe the Quebec LoCo Team (if such thing exists) joins the > ubuntu-language-fr team. And I have a buddy here in Florida who speaks > french. Well.. He isn't in Quebec, so their release parties and Ubuntu > Hours won't do him any good. Then there is Ubuntu France.. Well.. As > we already determined, he isn't there either.. So he joins > ubuntu-language-fr, and participates with the French community in that > way. The same thing could happen with Spanish speaking people around > the world. Each country has their own team (as pretty much already > exists), and they all join together on support and documentation, etc. > > Re Spanish speaking LoCos: We already have a similar setup on Launchpad (since 2007) with the Ubuntu Spanish LoCo Team & Ubuntu-es Team. And... it hasn't really worked. If someone wants support in Spanish, they will turn to their local team and I must say that the local teams are doing a great job here. I don't know why you want to fix something that's not broken? > > I finish with a last question because nobody seems to want to talk about > > that. What is the place of a language support team in the Ubuntu world? > > I can't speak for anyone else, buy IMO, the place of a language > support team would be to provide support and documentation, etc. > Combine with the translation teams and do translations. > > Chris > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts >
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