> From: Jean-Marc Liotier [mailto:j...@liotier.org] > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 11:41 PM > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-fr] Continued aggression against > French contributors (cadastre integration) > > Of course, international collaboration requires a common ground and the > Internet has made English an obvious choice in such projects. But that > does not mean that everyone is fluent - only an elite can reach that > linguistic level whereas Openstreetmap need the masses. That is yet > another reason for subsidiarity : local communities police themselves > better using their own cultural framework and there is a role for > ambassadors who will keep the local communities coherent within the > whole. So you don't need to be a polyglot : French contributors have > offered to take that representative role and keep the communication > channels open in tongues that each side understands and accepts.
If the French community has contact info (email preferred) for someone who speaks both English and French and is willing to take on dealing with contacting users and getting them to use dedicated accounts I'd welcome it. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
