Hi :) Yes, I think the problem of "middle-men" (or women) is more a theoretical risk that is likely to be worked-around naturally.
Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Florian Effenberger <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 16 August, 2011 10:46:30 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Building a network of marketeers Hi, [email protected] wrote on 2011-08-16 02:51: > In practical terms, require all who wish to contribute are fluent in English > seems rather elitist. I'm not ashamed to admit that my English is awful when > you need to talk. But I am reassured when I need to read or translate any text > in English or even write. Here in Brazil we have several people with fluency > in English, which can be "filters". I trust these people!! And I think it's > past time to treat Brazil as a trouble spot. Things have worked very well > here. > I agree with Florian when he says that leave this decision to the local > community and would like to apply for this job I've always done since the > days of OpenOffice.org. let me make it a bit clear. I consider it *crucial* that at least one of each local representative speak English fluently. If we have only local representatives not capable of speaking English, communicating with these groups will be a real problem. So, at least one fluent English speaker per group to me is really *mandatory*. She or he can, of course, then act for the others as "gateway". In a nutshell: From the project's side of view, I would require one English speaking contact, and would leave the rest up to the local groups. Does that sound like a senseful compromise? Florian -- Florian Effenberger <[email protected]> Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
