On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Regina Henschel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> We from the german-nlc would like to make a new start. The de-nlc has a long
> history and was one of the strongest OOo nlc projects. At peak times we had
> over 40 Mails per day coming over the de-dev mailing list. The de site is
> one of the most visited at the Apache OpenOffice project, and the chance is
> good that we can get new volunteers.
>
> The problem is, without a mailing list it's hard to involve newcomers.
>
> The English list es not really a viable alternative - same as it wouldn't be
> much good to force English native speakers to follow a ML with more than 40
> mails a day in Spanish for example.
>
> Non-programmers, who can do great work in QA, documentation and
> localization, have first to learn how this project is set up. They would
> feel more comfortable on a ML with less traffic and in their own language.
>
> But I'm sure many of those who join a German-language list will at some
> point in time also come to the ooo-dev. So it's not about splitting the
> community. On the contrary, it's about attracting new people to the project.
>
> We could of course setup a list outside of Apache - an alternative we have
> already discussed.
>
> But we need to be closer to Apache. A group outside would need very careful
> planning and coordination with the Apache project, and this would needlessly
> take up valuable time which could be put to better use. At the same time we
> need an up-and-running list need very soon, because the old infrastructure
> will be shutting down in the near future.
>
> We would very much like to know, what you think of our proposition.
>
> This proposal has been discussed on [email protected], see thread
> http://openoffice.org/projects/de/lists/dev/archive/2012-02/message/32
>
> Actual traffic on the German-language lists are
> [email protected]: January 12, February 54
> [email protected]: January 249, February 179
>
> We request a list [email protected]
> We are not strongly determined to "users", but "discuss" would be also OK,
> if that fits better to the common Apache praxis.
>
For native language lists we currently have two:
ooo-general-ja
and
ooo-utenti-it
("utenti" is Italian for "users")
So I think [email protected] would be fine. It would
also be fine if you wanted to translate "users" into German.
Note: after we graduate from the incubator, the lists will be renamed like this:
[email protected] ==> [email protected]
So your list would eventually become [email protected]
Regards,
-Rob
> Raphael Bircher and Michael Stehmann have agreed to moderate the new list.
>
> Kind regards
> Regina
>
>
