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