Hi; 2010/2/26 Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]>
> I'm getting more and more inquiries about place to discuss CouchDB in > German. > I know there are quite a bit of German-speaking folks here: Do you think > setting > up [email protected] would get any traction? Would *you* > subscribe? :) > Not me, my german skills are too old and not related to IT subjects ;-) > Also: Are there other languages/countries where this would make sense? > I don't think this should be a "me too" contest but rather a means of > helping > more people get help with CouchDB. Do you think your language's community > would benefit from a separate place to talk? > On one side, it can help as you can express in your mother language. On the other side it can split/spread the community into smaller blocks with no necessary links between them (not sure it's an issue). Not sure couchdb community is big enough to split it. As english is the IT language by default, I now think it's not an issue to follow only the "official/main" user list. Using english ressources by default allow also to have the most up to date documentation (as translation needs time and quite hard to maintain on the long term) > What do others think? What are your experiences from other projects or > communities? > Being part of French django community, the french user list is not really used and with a very small traffic (a few msg / month). Looks that the whole community is on the django-users list ; I did not check for other languages. For french couchdb user list, there is one created by benoit but it lacks of visibility I think. So it can explain why it has no success so far. For both french django & couchdb community, I guess that IRC is the main channel to get help in your own language (even if it's not my prefered tool and can't join during work if I need) So at the end, I would say I'm 0 on this (if I have to note between -1 / +1) ;-) Nicolas -- Nicolas Steinmetz http://www.steinmetz.fr - http://nicolas.steinmetz.fr/
