Thanks Ross!
2011/12/14 Ross Gardler <[email protected]> > Sebastian posted to the incubator general list to ask if the creation > of a non-english list is OK. I copy his mail and my response below for > the openmeetings community as a whole > > --- copied text --- > > First of all, my apologies for not being a good mentor for > yourproject. Too many demands on too little time. But I'm starting > toresurface. > More comments inline... > On 14 December 2011 12:34, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote:> Hi,>> I would like to clarify if > Non-English Mailing lists are allowed. > There are no hard and fast rules about this other than the main > devlist much be in English. That is the list where most decisions > aboutthe future of the project can occur. > We generally discourage non-english dev lists as they serve to > splitthe community. However, a case could be made for supporting such. > Non-english user lists are not so much of a problem if there > aresufficient users demanding them. One needs to be cautious > aboutcreating them as, again, you are splitting the community. But > forusers it can sometimes help. > > But I've heard that using Non-English List is not allowed on Apache> > Infrastructure. Is that true? > No, see above. Discouraged is the correct word. > > It makes me wonder as the OpenOffice project has 100++ Mailing lists in > a> lot of different languages. So I guess there is no such restriction and > we> can proceed right? > OpenOffice.org has 100+ non-english lists, but Apache OpenOffice > has,at this point in time, just one or two non-english user lists. > Theyare being created as the user community comes forwards > anddemonstrates a need for them. > In the case of your Spanish list, which appears to be a user list, > Isee it is quite active. Sop, personally, I don't see a problem as > longas all discussions that relate to the development of > OpenMeetingshappen on the English language dev list. > Ross > On 14 December 2011 12:26, Alexei Fedotov <[email protected]> > wrote: > > +1 if someone volunteers to moderate the spanish list > > > > -- > > With best regards / с наилучшими пожеланиями, > > Alexei Fedotov / Алексей Федотов, > > http://dataved.ru/ > > +7 916 562 8095 > > > > > > > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:37 PM, [email protected] > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> yes sounds good, I know Alvaro from various postings on all mailing > lists. > >> > >> Sebastian > >> > >> 2011/12/10 Federico Tomasczik <[email protected]>: > >>> Sebastian: > >>> > >>> Thanks for your words! > >>> > >>> Is very important your vision about our group in Spanish. > >>> > >>> The second moderator could be Alvaro ([email protected]) from Spain. > >>> > >>> Alvaro is my second hand in all this and he is very happy with this > idea. > >>> > >>> I wait for any comments. > >>> > >>> Federico Ch. Tomasczik > >>> > >>> 2011/12/10 [email protected] <[email protected]>: > >>>> +1 > >>>> > >>>> I like the idea, its good to have them all hosted at Apache as > >>>> official mailing list. Also it might be a good starting point for > >>>> improving the spanish localization and documentation in the future. > >>>> > >>>> @Federico: It would be good if there would be a second moderator. Do > >>>> you know anybody from the current mailing list that could become the > >>>> co-moderator ? Otherwise I can Co-Moderate the Mailing list but > >>>> somebody speaking Spanish would be better of course. > >>>> > >>>> Sebastian > >>>> > >>>> 2011/12/10 Federico Tomasczik <[email protected]>: > >>>>> Hi all! > >>>>> > >>>>> Very glad to see OpenMeetings become an apache project! > >>>>> > >>>>> My name is Federico Christian Tomasczik, from Argentina. > >>>>> > >>>>> I'm using OpenMeeting since 2008, version 0.5 Final Release. I also > >>>>> installed OpenMeetings in few commercial customers. > >>>>> > >>>>> I wrote tutorials in Spanish in my blog > >>>>> (http://liberamemoria.blogspot.com) about OpenMeetings. > >>>>> > >>>>> I created the "OpenMeetings en Español" > >>>>> (http://groups.google.com/group/openmeetings-en-espanol), a > discusion > >>>>> group in Spanish. Today this group have 250 members and it's a > >>>>> reference important to Spanish's community. > >>>>> > >>>>> I wish move this Group to Apache Software Foundation, but I need > yours > >>>>> votes here: > >>>>> > >>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4203 > >>>>> > >>>>> I hope you help me! :) > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Best Regards, > >>>>> Federico Ch. Tomasczik > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Sebastian Wagner > >>>> http://www.openmeetings.de > >>>> http://www.webbase-design.de > >>>> http://www.wagner-sebastian.com > >>>> [email protected] > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Sebastian Wagner > >> http://www.openmeetings.de > >> http://www.webbase-design.de > >> http://www.wagner-sebastian.com > >> [email protected] > > > > -- > Ross Gardler (@rgardler) > Programme Leader (Open Development) > OpenDirective http://opendirective.com > -- Sebastian Wagner http://www.openmeetings.de http://www.webbase-design.de http://www.wagner-sebastian.com [email protected]
