[IAEP] new technical list in spanish

[David Farning]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Tomeu Vizoso<tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 13:38, Luke Faraone<luke at faraone.cc> wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 07:15, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Please join if you would like to participate in discussions about
>>> Sugar development in Spanish.
>>
>> Won't this have the side effect of a segmented development community?
>
> It has all the downsides of creating a new mailing list. But given the
> low (almost null) participation in the existing mailing lists of the
> people who this new list is targeted, I think the benefits will
> outgrow the downsides.

The education nature of the project is engaging many people who are
not traditional open source contributors.  This is an excellent out
reach opportunity.

>> On
>> which list would consensus be authoritative?
>
> If someone is opposed to someone else doing something, then that
> feedback needs to reach that someone else. I see how this can get
> messy but unless we bar participation in the community of people who
> don't speak english, we'll need to find a way to cope with this.

I'll do my best to continue writing in mangled English:( to help keep
the bar low for non-native English speaker who might feel their
ability to communicate in English is not up to par:)

david

> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
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> What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David
> Farning
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