I think the same. A good number of us can communicate on English and don't have problems asking on the international lists, but exist another universe of people, starting with Pharo/Squeak, most of them students that prefer to have a beginners list on their own language.
Just an opinion. Cheers. 2009/11/27 Serge Stinckwich <serge.stinckw...@gmail.com>: > 2009/11/27 Mariano Martinez Peck <marianop...@gmail.com>: >> Sorry Alex, I wanted to speak with you about this in Smalltalks 2009 but I >> couldn't find it. >> >> My personal view is that I am not sure if it would be good to have a Pharo >> in Spanish mailing list. Why ? Most of the Argentinian (and I guess others >> spanish countries also) people speaks english. At least well enough to >> communicate. And even more nowadays where you have google translate and all >> that stuff. So, maybe those you are not use to speak english they do a >> little effort. With this, everybody can read those emails. If they are only >> sent to the spanish lists, only those people will read it. And maybe the >> answer was in an another guy. >> >> In addition, if someone cannot write english at all, then the mailig list is >> spanish is a good idea :) > > I think it's very important to have local Smalltalk mailing lists. > It's easier for beginners to speak in their native language. > Not every one is a core Pharo developpers, some people are just plain > users that want to expose their problems. > In french, we have only one mailing with all the Smalltalk flavors. > You can talk also about specific needs for example the translation of > books in your language or some local events. > > -- > Serge Stinckwich > UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam > Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)] > http://doesnotunderstand.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
