Re: [opennic-discuss] [PROPOSAL] Require voting in English

Seems more like an opportunity more than 'a risk'. If there's enough participants an alternative regionalized lists may allow people who lack the ability to express their thoughts in English to participate. On a second thought we might be at risk of widening our reach than.

The English speaking list will remain the 'core' channel of communication where all the important 'spaghetti-talk' takes place.

~ 
Sebastian Makowiecki

On 8 August 2018 19:54:42 GMT+01:00, Daniel Quintiliani <[email protected]> wrote:
>But then there's the risk of having e.g.
>"[email protected]" form eventually.
>
>--
>
>-Dan Q
>
>On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 10:04:34 -0500, Jonah Aragon <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>> You’re coming to the same conclusion as me, just via a different
>route. I don’t care what language people communicate in unofficially or
>off the record, I’m merely saying that all communication on official
>channels (i.e. proposals and votes, here on the mailing list)
>absolutely need to be conducted in English.
>> 
>> Jonah
>> 
>> > On Aug 7, 2018, at 11:17 PM, Daniel Quintiliani <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>> > 
>> > I think that's a really bad idea, people should be allowed to
>communicate in whatever language they want. It's just the proposals and
>votes that should be in English, and when I come up with the proposal
>for this, the text would be limited to proposals and votes.
>> > 
>> > Spilling over into your "yea/nay for the whole package only"
>proposal thread, perhaps looking at a situation like this (English for
>proposals,votes,discussions) can encourage the same line-item yea/nay
>which successfully standardized our voting and discussion policies?
>> > 
>> > For example, the ongoing vote on invalidating the previous
>contested vote originally included Jonah's not-so-popular rushed-in
>addon. This is too often how US Congress works (think how REAL ID was
>unpopular until it passed as an addon to the Hurricane Katrina
>emergency funding bill). Limiting ourselves to this is a bad idea,
>especially given our past successes with line-item yea/nay.
>> > 
>> > --
>> > 
>> > -Dan Q
>> > 
>> > On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 19:59:53 -0500, Jonah Aragon <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>> > 
>> >> 
>> >> That being said, this proposal should require that not only votes,
>but all discussion on this list be in English. This is an English
>speaking community, and it should be required on all official
>communication to prevent confusion.
>> >> 
>> >> Jonah
>> > 
>> > 
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