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@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@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

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