On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:30:22 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
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?
We are happy to set up Danish forums if you're willing to help us find people to staff them. That's how the process works: Someone helps coordinate and recruit people to staff the forum who speak the language natively, and we set them up. That's how we've done this for each of the groups of language-specific forums (excepting English). Nelson did this for the Portuguese forums that we've recently opened. The resources come from within the community that has such a desire - not from a request from someone who isn't willing to help out. So if you're willing to help out (or if you know someone who is), absolutely we can make that happen.
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.
Well, I disagree - you seem to want to discount the opinion of those 50,000 users, though, which is why I think you think that it's tangential. The users *are* important, and their preferences are important. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org