Re: [us-marketing] Re: [steering-discuss] Re: User Groups in each country approved LibreOffice

Hi Drew,
On 05/05/2011 17:25, drew wrote:
[...]
> > Hi Sophie, others
> >
> > Alright - this is the part I find difficult to reconcile "only official
> > representation". Naturally there are certain functions here, such as
> > translations where the language based association of individuals should
> > make a team and that team should have responsibility for that function.
> sorry - poor typing
>
> However, once you step past translation work I do not see the clear line
> that says this group has official responsibilities with other functions
> performed.

The primary goal of our project, in my eyes, is to offer an office suite 
in the language of the user. To achieve that, you need to put the 
language at the first place and whatever the history, the politics or 
the countries where this language exists, try to exists or has existed. 
An example can be Macedonian  [1], but there are others even more touchy.

So to evacuate this issue that is far from the goal of the project, 
languages are officially represented, not countries. This doesn't hinder 
the creation of local associations and representations [if it doesn't 
constrain the members of the language team to enter into political wars, 
of course, we won't support/endorse political actions in this way too].
This is the reason why also we don't use flags to represent the 
languages on our sites, wikis, etc.

I hope you understand better my position, but don't hesitate if it's not 
clear.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_naming_dispute

Kind regards
Sophie




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