Please no more E-Mails -----Original Message----- From: Kay Schenk [mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 5:07 PM To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Web page for NL communities ?
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > > > >> We currently have a web page that lists all of our mailing lists: > >> http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html > >> > >> However, the native language lists that we're creating recently are > >> not there. And I think adding them to that page would not be the best > >> approach. I wonder if it would be better to highlight these > >> communities on their own page. > >> > >> So something like this: > >> > >> On our podling page here: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/ > >> > >> Add new page under Community called "Native Language Communities" or > >> maybe something a little shorter. > >> > > > > This sounds like a lovely idea! > > > > > >> > >> On that page, explain a little what these groups are and are not. > >> They are not separate Apache projects, but are "interest groups" or > >> "language sections" within the AOO project, concentrating on native > >> language support, localization, marketing efforts, etc. > >> > >> Then have a table listing the languages and the mailing lists. We > >> could also have links to the website, e.g., de.openoffice.org. If > >> there are official social media accounts used by that community (a > >> Facebook page ot Twitter account, for example) we could link to those > >> as well. > >> > > > > It might be easiest, considering the state we're in with the NL mailing > > lists right now, to document these on a wiki page, and just link to THAT > > from the new NL info page you suggest. > > > > Wiki is fine also. Personally, I prefer the Apache CMS and mdtext > over Confluence wiki. It is easier to make a good looking page that > has a consistent style with the rest of the site. But as Emerson > wrote: > > "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by > little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a > great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself > with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think today in hard words, > and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it > contradict every thing you said today." > > So inconsistency is fine with me as well. > Well it would certainly be easier for the mailing list "requestors" to update a wiki page once their request had been processed, and then link the web site page *TO* that I think. I will start this page, and hopefully folks will update. > > > I've seen messages/setups go by for the new mailing lists, but honestly, > I > > have not been paying close attention. > > > > I think we have current or requested lists for Japanese, German, > Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and French. > This is what I've found so far... ooo-users-de ooo-general-ja ooo-geral-ptbr ooo-general-es ooo-utenti-it ooo-progetto-it OK, I'll get started on this. > > If someone could create this new wiki page, I would happy to create the > > front-end for it (and figure out how to modify the project menu). > > > > Thoughts? > > > >> > >> > >> > >> -Rob > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ > > MzK > > > > "Follow your bliss." > > -- attributed to Joseph Campbell > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ MzK "Follow your bliss." -- attributed to Joseph Campbell
