Re: [tdf-discuss] Multilingualism and discussions

Le 2010-10-18 20:22, Jean-Christophe Helary a écrit :
> 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.
>
> The status quo under Sun and Oracle came from the fact that both Sun and Oracle were American based 
> and mostly English speaking structures but we have no reason to reproduce that in the TDF.
>
>
> That basically means that:
>
> All the English speaking lists are @en.libreoffice.org
>
> And that all the lists @libreoffice.org are multilingual.
>
> This is the only way to ensure that no linguistic community has more power in the decision process 
> than any other which is a basic requirement for all democratic process.
>
> There are enough multilingual people in the respective communities to ensure that the communication 
> gap is bridged in all those lists.

I was under the impression that we were all in agreement, that the 
"lingua franca" of the mailists is English and that localized mailists 
were to encourage users to contribute in their own language.

Therefore, we should then make sure that information/issues from the 
localized mailists is passed on to the main English mailist through 
either the mailist moderator or some ambassador/spokesperson to the 
localized mailists to assure the flow of information to the SC or 
appropriate decision making group.

Maybe we should work on improving the process of the reporting of 
localized groups' concerns to the main English mailists.

Having a multi-lingual approach to the mailist, IMHO, would not be an 
effective way of running the LibO project. Having to translate and 
interpret cultural idiosyncrasies would be far more difficult and 
confusing than having to deal solely with English as the default 
language of communication between groups.

I can well imagine that, if you consider the various cultural/language 
backgrounds of SC members, we could also ask that SC members at least 
try to frequent mailists that are compatible with their mother-tongue or 
language comprehension. For example, if an member of the SC is from 
German background, then this SC member could easily frequent the German 
localized groups and participate in their discussions as well as help to 
report back to the main English mailists of any concerns from the German 
groups.

Therefore, the localized groups would have the following to help with 
the flow of any concerns to the main English mailist:

1. An ambassador/spokesperson would make sure that the flow of 
information/concerns of localized groups would be taken up in the main 
English mailists. These ambassadors could also report back, perhaps on a 
monthly basis, or the topics of conversations that were taken up in 
their localized groups during the month.

2 SC members lurking/participating in their native localized group 
mailist could also take part in reporting back to the main English 
mailists of any information/concerns of their respective localized group.

The main responsibility would however be shouldered by the 
ambassadors/spokespersons of the localized groups. These people would be 
the backbone of the reporting process of the localized groups.

Marc


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