[Qgis-user] add new spanish-speaking list ?

[Agustin Lobo]

Disagree with what? I'm not saying people should use this list to post
in any language.
What I'm saying is that we are not that many and splitting by languages is going
to make things more complicated and might even reduce the
communication exchange, as many
interesting questions in Spanish, french, german etc will not be
followed by everyone. Not to say
to reduce the probabilities of getting a correct answer to a question.

Also, in my honest opinion, an elementary knowledge
of English is actually much more useful than an elementary knowledge
of GIS, and, at least for an Spanish speaker,
not very difficult. Nobody asks people to post messages in perfect
English, mine is actually quite poor
and everybody has always been kindly patient with that, going to the
core of the problems, not to the syntax.

But, as I said, if people want to do lists in different languages,
just go on. I'll miss their input to the general one.

Agus


On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans at geograph.co.za> wrote:
> On 2012/09/21 04:23, skampus wrote:
>>
>> Agustin Lobo wrote
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>> I do not think this is a good idea. Virtually anybody working/learning
>>> GIS understands English
>>> and there are many advantages on keeping one single list, as the most
>>> difficult is to find time
>>> to answer questions. And there is the added value of exchanging
>>> opinions and ideas worldwide.
>>> Obviously this is not an obstacle for people wanting a separate list to
>>> do
>>> it.
>>>
>>> Agus
>>
>>
>> + 1
>> i totally agree with you
>
> -1
> I totally dis-agree.
> Most open source users follow a number of lists, so spend a lot of time
> weeding out emails.
> If you cannot understand a language, then there is point whatsoever.
> My suggestion is, is that this list enforces total English, and that a
> Spanish (or other lists) be created as needed.
>
> Although frowned upon, cross posting in this case (ie: to Spanish list in
> Spanish, and English list in [good or bad] English) is preferable as it will
> waste less time of the people who are willing to help, but can only
> understand English.
>
> In short, if you want help, make the effort to make it easier and less
> annoying for those who are willing and able to help.
> No one (to my knowledge) ever minds bad or broken English - in fact I have
> seen "bad English" users get better treatment because as a list, we are
> really willing to help. (Bad English posts seem to get less RTFM responses).
>
> So, think of it this way:
> You get a a post in velly bad Eastern English, but you are willing to help.
> If that post was in kanji (or something), you would probably think wtf?
>
> So, spare a thought for those on this list who are just as clueless about
> Hispanic and other languages.
>
> What if I posted in Hungarian?
>
> My 2c
> Zoltan
>
>
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