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Subject: Re: Posts in languages other than English on help-guix?
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 16:15:06 +0100
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Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:
>
>> What about allowing posts on help-guix in one of the languages that
>> regular contributors know, in addition to English?
>
> Most of time people with a specific language create a disconnected
> community forums or mailing lists.  For example, we have Russian
> communities in Arch [1] and Ubuntu [2].  Because of that experience I
> think it's not worth to merge all languages in one place.
>
> - [1]  https://archlinux.org.ru/
> - [2]  http://forum.ubuntu.ru/

I guess an obvious difference is that these two groups are much bigger
than Guix.  :-)

I like the idea of creating strong ties among people around the project,
and I think avoiding fragmentation is one way to achieve it.  But I
agree it=E2=80=99s also a question of scale, and perhaps eventually we=E2=
=80=99ll do
just like Arch, Ubuntu, and others (and by =E2=80=9Cwe=E2=80=9D, I really m=
ean =E2=80=9Csomeone=E2=80=9D
because these things aren=E2=80=99t centralized at all).  We=E2=80=99ll see!

Ludo=E2=80=99.