On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:36 AM, sophie <[email protected]> wrote: > This is what language communities are supposed to do : give those who don't > speak English a chance to be part of the project. We can't rely only on > English speaking people to grow the community and represent it every where > in the world. This is why settling each of our actions on an i18n point of > view first is very important.
That conjure to me the following quote (from a brazillian TDF member on the aooo-dev ML) "4 - Suddenly, TDF was requesting that every person who wanted to be called a "contributor" should fill a agreement request in order to be "recognized". So we became to be concerned about that huge amount of people who contributed and didn't want to fill a formal agreement to a foreign organization that don't speak their language and has a lot of "channels", many of them obscured. 5 - In addition, people who we were fighting bacame key persons in TDF. One of them became a "brazilian" member of the BoD, with 70 votes, when brazilian accepted members in Brazil were less than 15 and most of them didn't vote for him." Which, to me, indicate that the language barrier is being use and abuse to mislead (*), and the underlying 'nationalism' is disturbing to me. the notion the TDF should be the UN with 'national representative' is pretty scary (**) :-( Norbert (*) TDF does not _require_ anything to 'contribute'. for code contribution we ask for the proper licensing... but that is true of nay project. member need to be contributors but contributors are not required to be member. For instance last time I checked Tor is not a member, yet he is undeniably a contributor. Sure, to become a member, one is asked to agree to the tenet of the organization one want to become a member of... nothing shocking about that... (**) the notion of 'brazillian' member is shocking to me, just like the notion of 'French' member or 'Finnish' member... a member is a member, his national origin is irrelevant. And voting for a BoD member based on such irrelevant criteria is disturbing to me.
