[illumos-Discuss] [Discuss] IE? (Illumos En Español)

[Joshua M. Clulow]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Matt Lewandowsky wrote:
> I honestly think that in the scheme of things, those who are totally
> unable to participate in the English-language lists are a small
> percentage. (I'd be happy to see numbers showing what the make-up is in
> the average open-source project, but I've never found any!) However, those
> who prefer to communicate in their native tongue, or are more effective in
> communicating with their native language probably makes up a much more
> sizeable number.

On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Andre van Eyssen wrote:
> I am unable to manage such a list due to lacking the required language
> skills.

It would be good to get some kind of mechanism for ensuring important
information flows over the walls between the primary English and other
non-English mailing lists.  Perhaps some localised FAQs that explain the
multi-lingual situation or point folks toward people willing to help with
translation.

Google translate is always a fallback but I think people helping people keep
the entire community 'in sync' might be a win for inclusivity.  At least for
important announcements, notification of people taking on specific bodies of
work and such.


Disclaimer: I only speak English and a variety of programming languages so
               I'm mostly talking out of my hat.

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