On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 02:11:58AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> From a practical point of view
> - if there is a new list, lets say in Klingon, which is frequently used by
> only a very few people (Klingons may be) and has therefore only very few
> postings will most likely not attract more users to participate. So there is
> a big chance that such a list will dissapear over a longer period of time.
> This because of the natural mortality rate (mortality under the aspect of
> people seem to be dead if not posting) is lower than the fertility rate
> (under the aspect of fertility rate seen as new posters are like a new born
> member of the opensuse community).
Perhaps we could decide that after a period of non-posting, the list
might be deleted. Say 3 months of non-posting and the list is removed. 3
months of non-posting could mean that the group is actualy braindead.
> - Even if it has no practical use for the opensuse project itself it has a
> social use in the meaning of beeing an encouragement offered by opensuse to
> give people of a certain language the chance to socialise and thereby it
> helps keeping their culture which mostoften is based in their language
> alive. So speaking of klingon again we might be able to give a helping hand
> to keep the klingon empire and it's culture alive.
I would say we first handle world-domination and then see what we can do
for languages. Untill then , I believe we should keep a bit low profile
and concentrate on SUSE and openSUSE.
houghi
--
"I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd
eat it, and I just hate it."
-- Clarence Darrow
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