Hi, >Hi Ryan, Hi * > >Ryan Singer wrote: >> Daniel said it. The reason for a NL-EN is to provide grassroot >> support and implementation for the global strategy in EN locales. >> Other native-langs are very busy organizing and implementing local >> projects to a degree that just doesn't happen in english speaking >> countries, mostly because we use the same lists for global strategy >> and local implementation. The reason for a NL-EN project is so that >> there can be a place for talk about the best way to spread >> openoffice.org throughout english speaking countries that is more >> specialized than the place where we talk about global strategy.-R > >Despite the good reasons posted here, I feel like Vitor and >Louis. I wonder if the proposed EN_NL is not too global in >and of itself----I mean how do you coordinate local, >"grassroots" activities on a single EN-NL list for >Australia, Ireland, England and Cananda, for example?
>Separate lists for each region (Aus/NZ, UK, Ireland, North >America, etc for example) would sound more efficient. > Good point. I actually can conceive, however, of a project or subproject that could coordinate these activities. Right now, many NLC projects help organize and coordinate OOo user groups. For a while, Charles and I were debating how to deal with such region-based groups; I had the notion of forming a separte, "passive" project to list them, for the benefit of others. No list, etc. would be provided, as there could be easily thousands of such user groups. As well, I was concerned that introducing regional groups would affect the identity of the NLC. And that would seem to be the problem here. Grassroots marketing is a region-based and an excellent fit for Marketing. Arguably, we could hold this pattern out for all regional groups that are now sited in NLC projects; I'd certainly be for considering it. Discussions in those region lists would have to be in the relevant language, however, and fairly quickly, the situation could grow chaotic. Better to list the grassroots groups and lists from a central space, again, MP. As for English, is even this necessary? Do we have regional groups? Do the anglophone marcons engage in so much work that they need the space a speical new list provides? Usually, when we want to organize a conference, we use the all-purpose list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] By convention, discussions there are in English. Thus, it is de facto the list for anglophone conferences. You do not see, for instance, Cebit discussions going on there. So, to summarize, I'm in favor of listing regional groups and using the marketing project to coordinate such interest and work. Cheers Louis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
