On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:45 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: >> da brat mir einer einen Storch, nach Franzoesisch geht es los mit den > > Diesen Ausdruck habe ich noch nie gehoert - muss aber sofort > Gelegenheiten finden, ihn zu benutzen! > >> Andererseits baut eine Adresse wie die im mit "Um Fehler des Documents >> zu melden oder für Anregungen ..." beginnenden Absatz angegebene >> "sagemath- at -arcor.de" nicht gerade Vertrauen auf. Das soziale >> Netzwerk rund herum um das Sage-Projekt lebt davon, dass >> weitestgehende Offenheit herrscht. Fuer so eine mehr oder weniger >> private Adresse ist leider nicht klar, was mit den Mails geschieht. >> Ein Ausschlusskriterium an sich. Geschweige denn, dass auch Jahre >> spaeter in den Fragen und Antworten gestoebert werden koennte, von >> jedem, der sich dafuer interessiert. Und dass dort Fragen nur und >> allein zur deutschen Uebersetzung des Installationshandbuchs behandelt >> werden, das wird ein Hilfesuchender im Zweifelsfalle eben doch nicht >> glauben wollen! > > I think it's worth pointing out the broader point of this to the non- > German-speaking part of the Sage community (Georg's specific point is > that the proposed documentation sends things, purportedly only for > translation issues, to some random email address instead of a > searchable database like Google groups). > > Namely, what should a longer-term policy be for questions/support in > many languages? Even other open source math projects seem to have > different strategies - should there be sage...@goog..., sage-de@, and > so on? Or (yikes!) sage-fr-support/sage-support-fr/fr-sage-support or > other such monstrosities...
I like the idea of there being a sage-support-fr list. I found the GIAC forums offputting since they are all in French: http://pcm1.e.ujf-grenoble.fr/XCAS/ I wouldn't feel comfortable posting there in English. I don't see why providing a French, German, etc., forum for Sage wouldn't be a good idea. We could start small with only sage-support-fr and some german thing. -- William > > Soon Sage will be big enough in a number of linguistic communities > that this decision should be made, and (if possible) somehow > coordinated so that it's accessible from one site, maybe even with > automatic-but-poor translation services to browse archives in, for > instance, fast matrix multiplication in several languages. Right now > it seems that most of the posters from places with non-Latin > alphabets, and certainly from Spanish, French, and German-speaking > countries, are fluent enough in English to function, but we've also > seen a fair number of posts where the language barrier clearly posed > some delay in support, which is unfortunate. > > Thoughts? > > - kcrisman > > -- > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
