Am 17.06.2011 20:04, schrieb Louis Suarez-Potts:
Hi all,
On 2011-06-17, at 13:59 , Ian Lynch wrote:
On 17 June 2011 18:50, Manfred A. Reiter<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Ingrid, *,
Am 17.06.2011 17:44, schrieb IngridvdM:
My understanding is that this contradicts the principles of the Apache
way, because choosing to talk in a native language other than English is
excluding most others from their possibility to participate.
And if you have only english speaking list, you are excluding a mass of
german, brasilian,
spanish, japanes people how contributed to the project in a very good way
during the
last years.
IHMO it is evident, that we need
So I would like to suggest that we use English on all mailing lists at
Apache, also for the language/region specific tasks. Opinions? Or is this
anyhow self-evident and not worth a note?
It is self-evident, that the core has to be in englisch, even if it is BSE.
And because us English are not as good at languages as everyone else ;-)
IMHO it is self-evident, that we need languages lists - at least for
Let's draw some necessary boundaries, as we did with OOo on this issue. The
native language projects operated as *informational* resources, not where
*development* took place. ALL development was (and continues to be) in English.
But information on specific requests related to use and how-to contribute, as
well as incidental discussions, were encouraged to be in the person's native
language in these sub-projects.
The point was to promote regional and linguistic engagement and growth.
But, should discussions become related to development, then the point of having the
native-language projects would be lost, as the group kept in the "dark" would
be all those tens of thousands who do not speak the native language in question.
-louis
full ack ...
