hello,
if i may answer some of Christoph's question i may suggest the following:
a) +1 to have a basic Arabic users list and later derivatives would be
subject to traffic load.
b) a list name of "arb-users" seems good for me, i.e. having a distinguished
prefix while keeping the same rhythm of abbreviations.
c) as i noticed through various Arabic forums and websites that there is no
haze in understanding different accents of Arabs. thus, clear communication
is possible.
hav a nice day ^_^
2010/4/11 Zied Fakhfakh <fzied(a)dottn.com>
Hi,
We are running a local Fedora community in TUnisia:
http://fedora-tunisia.org, with our own mailing list, handling local
events and activities. This is some king of Tunisian Fedora Users group, not
only ambassadors.
might that inspire you ?
regards,
Zied.
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Christoph Wickert <
christoph.wickert(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 10.04.2010, 17:51 +0200 schrieb Gerold Kassube:
> > Hi Tareg,
> >
> > instead of starting a new list and re-invent the wheel again, ...
> > My personal opinion is: Point them to that list and invite them to be
> > part of the "big family"; here everybody will get "support",
ideas and
> > an answer on (mostly) every question which is related to "be Ambassador
> > and spread the word" ...
>
> Tareq was talking about users, not ambassadors. And I assume - although
> he did not state this explicitly - he is looking for a list where people
> can speak their own native language instead of having to speak English.
>
> Diversity is a gift, we should be thankful to have users around the
> globe. Therefor we already have a number of localized mailing lists:
> * bangladesh-users
> * br-users
> * cs-users
> * de-users
> * el-users
> * es-users
> * Fa-community (should be fa-users I guess)
> * he-users
> * it-users
> * malaysian-users
> * nl (should be nl-users)
>
> Looking at
http://fedoraproject.org/maps/f12/ I think there are indeed
> quite a few users in the middle east and northern Africa. Arabic is one
> of the most popular languages world wide:
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers
>
> I think we should really have an Arabic list. My questions to Tareq:
> 1. Would it be ok for you to start with an Arabic users mailing
> list? If there really is high traffic we can still divide it
> later.
> 2. If so, what would be the correct name for this list?
> arabic-users? (ar-users might be confused with Argentinian
> users.)
> 3. Will all users understand each other on this list or are there
> different dialects that differ too much?
>
> Regards,
> Christoph
>
> --
> ambassadors mailing list
> ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors
>
--
Zied FAKHFAKH
Dot TN - CTO
@: fzied(a)dottn.com
t: +216 71 82 89 58
f: +216 71 82 89 58
w:
http://www.dottn.com
a: Centre Molka, Esc E, Bur 17 - Manar 2 - 2092 - Tunis - Tunisia
--
ambassadors mailing list
ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors
--
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Eng. Hisham Isam M. Abdel-Magid
Civil & Infrastructures Engineer
Dar Al-Handasah Consultants (Shair and Partners)
P.O.Box: 40358, Doha, Qatar
Mobile: +974 5042547 - +974 7130994
E.mail: hisham.abdelmagid(a)dargroup.com
Websites: