On 05/20/2012 04:11 PM, Paulo de Souza Lima wrote:
The fact is: there's a lot of people helping AOO and you don't really know them. And they don't want to fill a form to officially help AOO or Apache Foundation. But it would be good to see they are recognized as "helpers", or "contributors", or whatever, some way.
Perhaps those that can use both the NL and English can be liaisons between the the NL community and the community here. They could help NL users by either assisting with posting here if a subject needs to be brought up here. As well they could keep local users informed of what is happening in this community.
Another possibility is a variety of badges or such for helping out on the NL lists and/or being liaisons . The NL groups sound like users groups to me, at least historically, so maybe that is a model that should be considered.
On a side note, even English users that just want to help are intimidated by many of the same things the NL users are apparently. After months of reading this list, I am just learning how to post here, since I haven't used an email list in ages. I don't code, or do html/css. I'll do what I can though, and hope it helps.
