Re: [native-lang] Position of Native-Lang and other non-coding parts of the communty [was: New template project]

On 04/12/2006, at 10:25 PM, Sophie Gautier wrote:

> As Andre said, we (NLC leads) have already been notified that Sun  
> is not interested by our user base feedback. I voted for the last  
> survey conducted by IDC but again it's English only so what would  
> be the results of this survey and what should I answer when users  
> ask me what to do with this survey they don't understand a word ?  
> They feel useless.

I'm very concerned by what you have said in this thread, Sophie. I've  
been working to get my community to take the risk of participating  
and trust the overall project to respect our needs and skills.

As you say, if our users are let down by the overall project, we are  
the focus of their disappointment. It's a very difficult position.

I haven't encountered this in any other free-software project, so it  
can't be that hard to include the user base. For projects, the user  
base is their strength. They can't afford to disregard it.

With regard to the user survey, can we get access to the files and  
translate it, provide a localized version which would be activated by  
the use of a localized OpenOffice?

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN