Hi, 2011/8/16 Florian Effenberger <flo...@documentfoundation.org>
> Hi, > > luizh...@gmail.com wrote on 2011-08-16 02:51: > > In practical terms, require all who wish to contribute are fluent in >> English >> seems rather elitist. I'm not ashamed to admit that my English is awful >> when >> you need to talk. But I am reassured when I need to read or translate any >> text >> in English or even write. Here in Brazil we have several people with >> fluency >> in English, which can be "filters". I trust these people!! And I think >> it's >> past time to treat Brazil as a trouble spot. Things have worked very well >> here. >> I agree with Florian when he says that leave this decision to the local >> community and would like to apply for this job I've always done since the >> days of OpenOffice.org. >> > > let me make it a bit clear. > > I consider it *crucial* that at least one of each local representative > speak English fluently. If we have only local representatives not capable of > speaking English, communicating with these groups will be a real problem. > So, at least one fluent English speaker per group to me is really > *mandatory*. > > She or he can, of course, then act for the others as "gateway". > > In a nutshell: From the project's side of view, I would require one English > speaking contact, and would leave the rest up to the local groups. > > Does that sound like a senseful compromise? > > Yes, Florian. It's good for me. I understood... And I vote for Paulo Lima to our gateway... Rgds, Luiz Oliveira -- 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
