2011/8/16 Kostas Mousafiris <kvisi...@gnugr.org> > I think that if we are to be realistic, then the use of English has been > established for a long time as a "de facto" universal means of > communicaton! > So, I don't honestly believe that the use of any other language would > work.....It just could not serve our main purpose! > > Just one more thought: > I vote strongly in favour of leaving it to the local communities to > decide who- among their volunteers- is the best suited person for the job! > Apart from his/her fluency in English, let us not forget that behind > him/her stands the power of the local community! > Therefore, even if there should be minor translation problems, just by > using the Community's good will and coo, everything will be smoothed out > nicely. >
+1. In my view, those people have no need to know the language, but his/her duties. Anyone else with language skills could act like a interpretor, translating either e-mails and/or conference calls. > > Regards from Greece > Cheers. > > Constantine > > > -- Paulo de Souza Lima Técnico em Eletrônica e Administrador http://www.pasl.net.br http://almalivre.wordpress.com Curitiba - PR Linux User #432358 Ubuntu User #28729 "For people to achieve peace in their relationships, spiritual peace and the peace among people, it's necessary, earlier, to win the internal battle between virtues and defects" - Talal Husseini - Acropolitan Philosopher -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
