Possibility to 'other-than-english-language' sub-forums ?

henke54 · General User Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 12

hi... is it not possible to create other-language sub-forums here , which are not native to english?
i think there is kind of a 'reservation' for people who are not familiar with english to ask questions about their problems with ooo ... i see lots of 'scattered' questions about ooo on other forums which aren't specific ooo-focussed (for example 'general'-software-forums).

Villeroy · Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:26 am Post subject:

Your nick indicates a German origin. Try http://oooforum.de/
No, the moderators can not add more sub-forums. The one and only administrator of this forum does not care about content. He just keeps it running.
And then there are mailing lists like comp.openoffice.general.german

henke54 · General User Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 12

Villeroy · Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 12:36 pm Post subject:

henke54 · General User Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 12

Villeroy · Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:13 pm Post subject:

That depends on the activity of the local groups.
See http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html

Google search on discussion groups:

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jrkrideau · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:40 am Post subject:

keme · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:21 am Post subject:

I'd love to use my native language, but I realize the fact that English is the closest we get to a universal standard for international communication. I.e., most people worldwide (I guess... at least those likely to use office software) can use English, or know someone who can. Hence, if I use English...:

my questions have a better chance of being answered.
my answers reach out, directly or indirectly, to a larger number of users.
I improve my English.

That's why the second best choice is the optimal solution (as it often happens). Wink

pitonyak · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject:

Another forum should be coming online which should provide for other languages - or at least they have them in mind during the current creation phase.
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henke54 · General User Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 12

Hagar Delest · Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:44 pm Post subject:

Yes. The forum Andrew talked about has been launched 16 months ago: http://user.services.openoffice.org. If you want to setup a new area however, you need some volunteers to act as moderators, and a user base if possible, willing to develop their language forum.
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henke54 · General User Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 12

Hagar Delest · Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:15 am Post subject:

Yes. Note that http://user.services.openoffice.org/ has now 4 sub-forums for French, Spanish, Hungarian and Japanese. And there are 2 more that should come soon (Vietnamese and Chinese).
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