Jim Henderson wrote:
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:14:34 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Jim Henderson wrote:
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:28:59 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Then they clearly *don't* want help.
If I want help, but I flatly refuse to use the communication means by which help is available, I don't really need it.
They do, but they want *convenient* help.
IMO, that is incredibly arrogant. I would like help to be provided in my native language, but when that's not available, I accept that I have to use a foreign language to get help. I don't see why the forum users cannot work like that too.
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BTW many of the users on OSF do actually get help in their native languages - one of the things we do if someone's willing to help set it up and manage it in a foreign language is to create forums for those groups who want them. We currently offer in Hungarian, Japanese, Russian, French, English, German, Dutch, Greek, and Portuguese.
I prefer Danish, can you please arrange for some helpers and a set of suitable openSUSE fora?
If there's a lower barrier to entry to get help somewhere else, then that's where they'll go.
Of course, that's how it should be. However, we are (well I am) specifically talking about the situation where there is no lower barrier.
I think 50,000 forum users would disagree about the barrier to entry for getting help in the forums being lower than the mailing lists. ;)
Yeah well, you're off on the wrong tangent again. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (9.5°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org