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Re: One-day conference on simulation in France (2nd call)


From: Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso
Subject: Re: One-day conference on simulation in France (2nd call)
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:50:01 -0400

Frederic Lehobey wrote:
By the way (unrelated), is there any French speaking mailing list
around octave. Is there a need for one? (Not sure there is, and that
it would be such a good idea... but who knows?)

On 11/10/06, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
I'm not sure of the value of splitting the forums by language, certainly
not for the developers. The only reason I could see would be a support
list in particular languages to avoid users who aren't confident in
English to pose questions.

Such language-specific forks of mailing lists (or forums, chatrooms)
are common in free software communities. I'm sure they have their
uses, but often the traffic is almost always naturally higher in the
English-speaking parts in my experience. English is the de facto
lingua franca of the world (although if I could have my way, Latin or
a similarly dead and politically neutral language would still be the
lingua franca of the academic and scientific community, but I
digress).

That being said, I don't see the harm of creating a language-specific
Octave mailing list in whatever vulgar tongue, and it would probably
do more good than harm; certainly wouldn't take away any traffic away
from the English-speaking list that wouldn't go there anyways because
the poster could be shy of eir English. Spanish speakers also seem to
be abundant in the current mailing list, and I would personally
subscribe to such a mailing list if it came into existence.

Cheers,
- Jordi G. H.


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