Re: [tdf-discuss] Multilingualism and discussions

Hi Jean-Christophe,

Jean-Christophe Helary wrote (19-10-10 11:25)
> On 19 oct. 10, at 18:15, Florian Effenberger wrote:
> > Jean-Christophe Helary wrote on 2010-10-19 02.22:
> >
> > > I would like to propose that unlike what existed under Sun and
> > > Oracle, the linguistic communities _including_ the English
> > > speaking community, are all identified by a specific language
> > > marker and that all the lists that do not use that language
> > > marker are explicitly multilingual.
> >
> > I would not suggest doing so. This simply leads to chaos.
>
> Certainly not. The reason why is that most people would still use
> English as the communication language.
>
> In any case, the current "global" lists are not global, they are
> English lists and should be identified as such.

They are handling global items, as I see it.
I do not mind if some people post there in a language that I do not 
understand (and there are many) but then I cannot join nor help.
That is not what you intend I think?

> There is no need for a "global" user list

Joining the global users lists, gives the largest public, so more 
knowledge / international exchange. I find that useful in some cases.

> and the "global" discussion
> list should not be a mere "discussion" list but a "policy" list where
> only items of global interest regarding TDF or LO are discussed.
>
> > As you might have seen, we're currently setting up more local(ized)
> > mailing lists, which will also help in reducing the traffic on this
> > main discussion list.
>
> Ok, then create a few @en.libreoffice.org lists too to ensure that
> all the low interest English traffic is redirected there please.

If you mean that people interested in English localisation should have 
own lists, then I am not sure if that will work, since all the global 
work is is done in English already.

What indeed is needed, is a way to make it work that people doing 
activities as marketing in areas where English is the language, have 
their lists. As far as I have seen (many unread messages) that is 
discussed also in another thread.

Regards,
Cor

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