RE: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list-

2005-01-13 Thread Mark Lundquist
> From: Glen Ezkovich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Its a user list. Those who participate in it ask and answer questions. >[..snip] > If it were a developer list I could see this discussion. excellent point -ml-

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list-

2005-01-13 Thread Glen Ezkovich
Its a user list. Those who participate in it ask and answer questions. Its success depends on the level of participation by french speaking users. I wouldn't worry about translation of the list its a resource for those who speak french not those who speak english, italian, german, polish, japan

RE: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list-

2005-01-13 Thread eric . jacob
> -Original Message- > From: Bertrand Delacretaz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 9:35 AM > To: dev@cocoon.apache.org > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list- > > Le 13 janv. 05, à 15:28, Ralph Goers a écrit : &g

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list-

2005-01-13 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 13 janv. 05, à 15:28, Ralph Goers a écrit : ...I've used the Google translator for non-English docs before and while they are mostly readable I am sure they are nowhere as good as speaking in the native language... That's the problem, automatic translations are IMHO far from being good enough

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-13 Thread Tim Larson
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:39:00AM +0100, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > Matthew Langham wrote: > ... > >However I also see a problem in having additional "channels" in _any_ other > >language because it would essentially mean that people would probably only > >post to their native list (which again i

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list-

2005-01-13 Thread Ralph Goers
Rajaneesh wrote: How about having a single repository with english and use the google translater for translating from English to French? I used the following link http://www.google.com/language_tools to learn few words in French :-) Regards Rajaneesh This is what I was proposing as well, althoug

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-13 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Matthew Langham wrote: ... However I also see a problem in having additional "channels" in _any_ other language because it would essentially mean that people would probably only post to their native list (which again is understandable). But this would eventually reduce the common discussion on the

RE: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-13 Thread Matthew Langham
> > Please cast your votes. > Hmm...this is really a point for discussion. I certainly understand the reluctance of non-English speaking people to write in English to the list (we get similar Emails from our German speaking customers for example). However I also see a problem in having additio

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-13 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Leszek Gawron wrote: Sylvain Wallez wrote: Therefore, I would like to create a new mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a few pages in french on the website. Those pages will be a translation of the introductory pages of our site, and pointers to the mailing list and its archives. I do not plan

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-13 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 13 janv. 05, à 10:11, Antonio Gallardo a écrit : ...We could add to the list: es, it, sk, pl? God! ... this could be a real babel tower! ;-) Sure. Let's start with the french (as we have a convincing leader in Sylvain, and some helpers), and see what benefits it brings, we can then decide for

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-13 Thread Antonio Gallardo
On Jue, 13 de Enero de 2005, 2:52, Leszek Gawron dijo: > Sylvain Wallez wrote: >> Therefore, I would like to create a new mailing list, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a few pages in french on the website. >> Those pages will be a translation of the introductory pages of our site, >> and pointers to the m

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-13 Thread Leszek Gawron
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Therefore, I would like to create a new mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a few pages in french on the website. Those pages will be a translation of the introductory pages of our site, and pointers to the mailing list and its archives. I do not plan to provide a full tra

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-13 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 12 janv. 05, à 23:50, Sylvain Wallez a écrit : ...And I (and Bertrand?) don't want to spend precious time syncing translations... I cannot volunteer for website translations to french ATM, sorry. If you do some I'll certainly review them, but not more. I feel bad enough about not being able t

RE: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list-

2005-01-12 Thread Rajaneesh
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 4:21 AM To: dev@cocoon.apache.org Subject: Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list Vadim Gritsenko wrote: > Sylvain Wallez wrote: > >> Therefore, I would like to create a new mailing list, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a few

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-12 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Vadim Gritsenko wrote: Sylvain Wallez wrote: Therefore, I would like to create a new mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a few pages in french on the website. Those pages will be a translation of the introductory pages of our site, and pointers to the mailing list and its archives. I do not pla

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-12 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Nathaniel Alfred wrote: -Original Message- From: Ralph Goers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2005 17:30 To: dev@cocoon.apache.org Subject: Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list As far as the list goes, I'm generally OK with it but it mak

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-12 Thread David Crossley
+0 for the French list. (i.e. i cannot help). and i echo Geoff's concerns. The list should have more than just two Euro-centric moderators. Perhaps a French-speaking Canadian dev will offer to be another. --David

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-12 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 12 janv. 05, à 23:05, Juan Jose Pablos a écrit : Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Great, it will be good to have several people who can act as bridges between the french and english list, to avoid fragmentation or duplication of issues. ¿? When you say about duplication of issues, are you thinking

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-12 Thread Juan Jose Pablos
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Great, it will be good to have several people who can act as bridges between the french and english list, to avoid fragmentation or duplication of issues. ¿? When you say about duplication of issues, are you thinking on bugzilla? The issues should be written in englis

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-12 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Therefore, I would like to create a new mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a few pages in french on the website. Those pages will be a translation of the introductory pages of our site, and pointers to the mailing list and its archives. I do not plan to provide a full tra

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-12 Thread Markus Heussen
I'm just a user and I know that I cannot vote. But from my point of view english is the one and only IT worlds language, lets say the Lingua Franca. You shouldn't seperate neither users nor developers experiences in different mailing lists. Markus Torsten Curdt schrieb: Please cast your votes.

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-12 Thread Torsten Curdt
Please cast your votes. Due to the possibility of a fraction of the user base I give only a +0 I am wondering how they survive in the IT world. Anyway... if it helps... cheers -- Torsten

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-12 Thread Geoff Howard
sage- > >From: Ralph Goers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2005 17:30 > >To: dev@cocoon.apache.org > >Subject: Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list > > >As far as the list goes, I'm generally OK with it but it makes m

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-12 Thread Tony Collen
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Bertrand already offered to moderate this list, and I of course also volunteer for this. Please cast your votes. Here's my +1. +1 Tony

RE: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-12 Thread Nathaniel Alfred
>-Original Message- >From: Ralph Goers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2005 17:30 >To: dev@cocoon.apache.org >Subject: Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list >As far as the list goes, I'm generally OK with it but it makes me wo

RE: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-12 Thread Mark Lundquist
> From: Sylvain Wallez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[..snip..] > > Therefore, a very large part of Cocoon users in France have no link with > the community and "just use" Cocoon. And because of that, they don't use > it very well, as their only source of information is - ahem - the docs. Ouch. We

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-12 Thread Ralph Goers
Sylvain Wallez said: > > Therefore, I would like to create a new mailing list, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a few pages in french on the website. > Those pages will be a translation of the introductory pages of our site, > and pointers to the mailing list and its archives. I do not plan to > provide a f

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-12 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Folks, We discussed this a bit on the PMC list, and we now need some formal decision in the open about this. Over time, I found many people in France using Cocoon but not subscribed to the ASF mailing lists. I asked myself the reason for this and discussed with some of the

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-12 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Sylvain Wallez wrote: ... Therefore, I would like to create a new mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a few pages in french on the website. +0 (good idea, but I don't speak French, so I can't help much there ;-) -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant,

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-12 Thread Sylvain Wallez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please cast your votes. Here's my +1. Sylvain I'm not a Cocoon Committer, but I'm a "French Canadian", so here's my +1. Even if non binding, your opinion matters, as it shows the interest for the creation of this list. I've been using Cocoon since the days of vers

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-12 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Here's my +1 for the creation of the list. Le 12 janv. 05, à 16:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : ...I've been using Cocoon since the days of version 2.0.4, so I can certainly help to answer some questions on the new list Great, it will be good to have several people who can act as bridges betwe

RE: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-12 Thread eric . jacob
> Please cast your votes. > > Here's my +1. > > Sylvain > I'm not a Cocoon Committer, but I'm a "French Canadian", so here's my +1. I've been using Cocoon since the days of version 2.0.4, so I can certainly help to answer some questions on the new list. Thanks. Eric

Re: [VOTE] Creation of a french-speaking users list

2005-01-12 Thread Reinhard Poetz
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Folks, We discussed this a bit on the PMC list, and we now need some formal decision in the open about this. Over time, I found many people in France using Cocoon but not subscribed to the ASF mailing lists. I asked myself the reason for this and discussed with some of the