Hi,
Rob Weir schrieb:
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Paulo de Souza Lima
<[email protected]> wrote:
2012/5/18 Rob Weir<[email protected]>
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Not really. I'm not presuming to say what others should or should not
want to do. And I'm not going to speculate on what "the project"
wants to do, whatever the heck that means.
Let's not speculate or deal in hypothetical about how some
hypothetical volunteer from Bolivia may or may not want to do for some
hypothetical grant. We don't need an elaborate apparatus to deal with
such questions that have not actually occurred here.
Instead, let's ask of the here and now: Is there anything any
volunteer on the project wants to do, that they believe that they
cannot do? I'd encourage them to speak up, regardless of country or
language. Let's make a list.
Well, as long as you've opened a channel, I have something to say about it.
[..]
2 - There's a lot of people here in Brazil willing to help AOO, but they
can't because they can't read/write/speak English. I can count at least
three right now, in our (provisory) mailing list at Escritório Livre.
What do the volunteers want to do?
If a volunteer wants to contribute code, they need to understand C++.
If they want to contribute to the website design then they need to
understand HTML/CSS. And so on. There are basic per-requisite skills
needed. And across all of these there is the need to be able to
read/write English. I don't see how this can be avoided.
It is possible to work on Media-Wiki without English skills. You only
need a small sheet with basic formatting commands. The UI of the Wiki
uses native language. I don't know how many languages are supported, but
I see a lot in the drop down list.
Look at the categories FR, ES, JA, or RU to see what is possible. (BTW,
you will not see a lot of German content, because we had already
ooowiki.de before the openoffice-wiki started, and that has >1000
pages.) You can put a lot of end-user help into the wiki and go far
beyond the build-in help.
Kind regards
Regina
