On Monday 03 May 2010 16:28:25 Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote: > On Freitag, 30. April 2010, Felix Wolfsteller wrote: > > I dislike the language-split communities and information pools. If I see > > multiple mailinglist, forums, wikis or whatever I always have the feeling > > that I might miss something which might have been answered in another > > language. Also, if I see activity on e.g. japanese mailing list is higher > > than on english/general mailing list, I might loose interest (as I dont > > speak Japanese). > > Its easy for you to dislike because you are capable of english language ;-) > > > The people who want to use OpenVAS have to able to read and understand > > english anyway. > > Yes no No. > Also, it is not so easy-going for some people to discuss > e.g. german IT-Grundschutz in english. > It would automatically lead to half- or full german emails. > I would loose interest if on a english mailing people talking > in another language (I've see this for other projects and that was > not helpful for that project) .
Agreed. > Apart from this: Last time a Live-CD was published in germany > it reached far more 400000 copies (plus the downloads). > Subsequently a number of reviews where published. > The lack of a german (nessus) mailing list was a serious blocker. > Keep in mind, that this CD adressed exactly those groups > not typically present on english mainling lists. > I'd like to avoid this problem this time and give the people a place > to be happy. Of course I don't know whether we can create > the same level or awareness as in 2005 again. Ok, a german mailinglist makes sense with the background of hundreds of (German-language) ITG-NVTs in the feed and thousands of german Live-CDs with text from and partly distributed by the BSI. +1 -- felix -- Felix Wolfsteller | ++49 541 335083-783 | http://www.intevation.de/ PGP Key: 39DE0100 Intevation GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück | AG Osnabrück, HR B 18998 Geschäftsführer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
