[Webcom] Organize and structure the wiki

[Yves Jacolin]

Le Dimanche 10 Juin 2007 16:01, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) a écrit :
> On Sun, June 10, 2007 10:57, Yves Jacolin wrote:
> > Le Samedi 9 Juin 2007 23:19, Dave Patton a écrit :
> >> Yves Jacolin wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I would like to organize the francophone section of the wiki so I am
> >> > proposing to create namespace for each local chapter.
> >>
> >> So what would you do if there were french-speaking
> >> local chapters in Montreal, Quebec and Paris, France?
> >
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > Well, today the francophone local chapter aims to group all french
> > speaking
> > people : from Quebec to Vietnam via France, Belgium, Swiss ... ;-)
> >
> > BTW, if the local chapter is not group by the langage but by geographic
> > location, indeed we could get two local chapters with the same langage.
> > Thus
> > it could be interesting to define a local chapter : is it a group of
> > people
> > speaking the same langage? Is it a group of people living close each
> > other (l. c. =geographic location) ? Both of them?
> >
> > I just proposed to get the same structure inside the wiki so if there are
> > two
> > local chapters, for instance: Quebec and France, we wil get two
> > namespaces. I
> > understand it could be seems to create a gap between them. But to me,
> > namespace is just wiki organization. Am I right?
> >
> > I would like to follow your exemple again: if there are these two local
> > chapters, it will be important that both of them work together about
> > translation, ... except for tradeshows, booths, local contact. It may not
> > be
> > useful to get this two local chapters? Together they will be stronger and
> > it
> > could be possible to organize the local chapter in order to allow some
> > people
> > to be present in local tradeshow. This is why we are creating (on-going)
> > one
> > francophone local chapter: we are stronger together.
> >
> > Thanks Dave to run this topic because it's an important question which I
> > will
> > report to the francophone mailinglist. I hope that you undestand my poor
> > english. :-)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Y.
> > --
> > Yves Jacolin
>
> Hey Yves,
> would you care to join VisCom - we are very much in need of people who are
> tied into local chapters *and* capable of communicating both in English
> and another (ideally their native) language.
>
> I think many of your questions and ideas are cross-related to technical
> and content issues addressed by WebCom and outreach and visibility tasks
> promoted by VisCom. Seeing that you are very active I would like to get
> you into one of these two chapters formally (as VisCom chair I obviously
> wnat to have you in "my" committee... :-). This might also help you
> talking to 'your' francophone community as you will be able to talk as a
> more formal representative of OSGeo. Beware of going too far though, else
> people might think that you have defected to OSGeo and deserted them
> (which is my trouble with some Grrrrmns).
>
> Best regards,
> Arnulf.
>
> PS:
> You can quit apologizing for your English - it is perfectly fine to make
> people get what you mean. I believe that many do not speak up at all out
> of fear that their English is not good enough. Bu this should never be an
> issue. If anything is unclear to people they should ask again.
Arnulf,

It seems to me that I replied to your last mail about joining the VisCom 
comitee, I accept your proposition. This is what I am interesting in hte 
francophone local chapter.

Y.
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Yves Jacolin
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