[Okfn-ca] Compte-rendu de la première réunion du groupe local, 9 juillet 2013 | OKFN Canada - Groupe local de l'Open Knowledge Foundation – Local Group : promouvoir le savoir libre

[Michael Roberts]

Hi Ted, all

Its seems like an interesting idea. From my point of view, I prefer a listserv because I like things pushed to me. I've always found discussion boards a place you have to go to. You have to be motivated to do it, and with so many discussion boards in different places, I soon forget, and simply stop going there. Email is easy and I've found because of the 'push' to my inbox, it encourages engagement, but I might simply be an old school listserv fan. One suggestion for this list however is to change it to 'reply-to-list' rather than 'reply-to-sender'.  Its makes its easier to share with the wider group, and encourages even further group dialogue.

As for the language issue, my sense is as the list grows, you are going to start to see more anglophones join the list, with more english posts than there have been to date.  I'd rather see the french posts, and make my own determination if I would like to translate it or not, rather than be excluded from the posts.   

The only exception might be OKFN team when it comes to announcements etc. where its important to share them in both languages.
My two cents.

Cheers,
Michael

On 2013-07-12, at 9:59 AM, Ted Strauss <ted at trudat.co> wrote:

> Hi Peder and all,
> I attended the OKFN-ca meetup last week and brought up the language issue 
> during the brainstorming round we did. I'm bilingual, from anglo Canada, and the
> first concern I had about a national group was the language split. I brought it
> up and this issue was grouped priority #1, along with other out-reach issues.
> 
> I also have a specific idea for how to improve communications generally, and
> specifically around the langauge issue. The idea is to move okfn-ca discussion 
> into a more feature-rich forum software. I have recently setup a forum at odx.io 
> using the new Discourse forum, and I'd be willing to modify it to become the 
> okfn-ca discussion hub. 
> 
> How would this forum help the language issue?
>  - By moving conversations out of the listserv, it's stops you receiving emails that are not in your preferred language, which can become annoying.
>  - We could mix together English and French topics inside the forum, so users could pick and choose what topics to engage with.
>  - Discussions can be all English, all French, or bilingual.
> 
> The Disourse forum has many other advantages, especially for long-term collaborations.
> 
> Cheers
> Ted Strauss
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> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Peder Jakobsen <pjakobsen at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2013-07-11, at 11:28 PM, Diane Mercier <diane.mercier at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> We understand that it is important for the rest of Canada to have a translation of French texts into English. Thanks to understand that 75% of Quebecers are functionally bilingual. 
> 
> If this is true, but only 3 % of the rest of Canada is functionally bilingual, isn't this approach kind of labour intensive, slow, and potentially unnecessary? 
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> Also, since I don't read any french at all,  how will I know which bits to plug into  Google translate?  Do I have to do every single post that lands in my inbox.  
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> This  does not seem like a practical strategy for getting traction and growing the group in Canada, nor for inviting participation from OKFN in Europe and the US.
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