Re: [Mldonkey-users] New Forums

[kami petersen]

vnc wrote:

> Hi,
>
> devein wrote:
>
> > > for all the frenchs....
> > >
> > > is someone patient enough to setup somewhere a french forum ( may be 
> > > is it
> > > already done ) ?
> > > the number of french linux/mldonkey users is growing ....
> > yeah! and polish forum too!
> > devein, polish mldonkey user
>
>
> If there is not already such a forum (please check extensively)
> I think we could add a polish, french and brazilian (yes, we had a 
> request!) forum to mldonkey.berlios.de. The main point is that we need
> reliable moderators.

spontaneously, i think adding more fragmentation to our community would 
be really bad. cross posting would increase and valuable information and 
view points would dilute. what's next? at some point we have to ask 
ourselves if it's not more important for a small community to try to 
focus on a compromise.
maybe more effort should be put into maintaining a concise faq, wich 
could be synch'ed across languages, and possibly an i18nalized help 
system for the guis (it should be part of the main daemon, so that all 
guis could utilize it).

however, i think that the main problem is not in understanding written 
english, rather, i think many people might hesitate when they have to 
write english themselves. i think that there might be a need for 
"help-only" forums in specific languages. these should really be just 
for direct problem solving, catered by fellowed countrymen with good 
hearts. not bug reports, not general debate, not even feature requests, 
since the chance that these would ever reach outside of that particular 
forum is probably small.

i think that when certain language groups are big enough, they will 
start their own forums. as has the french and the germans (i think). 
there's nothing that can be done about that, but let's try to keep the 
mldonkey world site mainly in english.

cheers,
kami