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Grex > Coop7 > #109: Minutes of the Board Meeting of Wednesday, September 27, 1995 | |
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sidhe
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response 25 of 75:
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Oct 19 21:08 UTC 1995 |
In any case, it would be inappropriate to limit grex any more than
it is, as far as geographic scope is concerned. Grex is a world-wide
net, now, and we cannot pretend otherwise.
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steve
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response 26 of 75:
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Oct 19 21:15 UTC 1995 |
Thats for sure.
Anyone wanna start work on the multi-lingual version of newuser?
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selena
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response 27 of 75:
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Oct 22 09:57 UTC 1995 |
No habla espaniol..
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steve
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response 28 of 75:
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Oct 22 16:09 UTC 1995 |
(in case anyone thinks I'm joking, we really could use the ability
to speak to people in German, Polish, Spanish, French, Dutch, Korean,
Swedish, Danish, Norweigan, Russian, Japanese and Thai for starters.)
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scg
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response 29 of 75:
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Oct 22 16:25 UTC 1995 |
I think it would be neat to have a multilingual newuser, but I wonder how much
good it would do when people who don't know enough English to get through our
English language newuser get dumped into our English language conferences.
It's still a good idea, and maybe it could spur some conferences in other
languages.
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srw
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response 30 of 75:
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Oct 22 17:33 UTC 1995 |
I read and write Spanish well enough to answer questions for staff,
and I have done so. I also direct our Spanish speaking users to the
Spanish item in Language. We haven't reached critical mass, but there are
3 or 4 regulars who post there from time to time.
I believe #28 is correct with respect to most other languages.
There are a few who speak Dutch, German and French around here, but not
on staff, I believe.
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scg
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response 31 of 75:
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Oct 22 18:13 UTC 1995 |
I speak French fairly well, and would be willing to try to answer questions
in French if they get forwarded to me. However, my French writing skills
aren't nearly as good as my speaking, and I don't really know French computer
terminology.
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steve
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response 32 of 75:
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Oct 22 18:18 UTC 1995 |
I can read some Dutch, but can never seem to formulate a sentence
without half a hours thought. Pretty much the same for German.
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srw
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response 33 of 75:
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Oct 23 05:09 UTC 1995 |
Well My Spanish improved significantly when I tried writing in it.
The penalty was, as STeve suggests, time.
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popcorn
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response 34 of 75:
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Oct 24 15:54 UTC 1995 |
I can do German and some French.
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popcorn
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response 35 of 75:
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Oct 24 15:55 UTC 1995 |
(But I'd be happy to have some other person who speaks either of those
languages better do so.)
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chelsea
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response 36 of 75:
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Oct 24 21:37 UTC 1995 |
I'd be willing to help out with Latin.
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kerouac
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response 37 of 75:
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Oct 24 23:38 UTC 1995 |
I can do klingon and a little vulcan! :)
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remmers
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response 38 of 75:
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Oct 25 01:01 UTC 1995 |
I'll do C and Pascal.
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davel
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response 39 of 75:
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Oct 25 01:22 UTC 1995 |
Right. If Caesar, Spock, Kernigan, or Wirth shows up we're all set.
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robh
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response 40 of 75:
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Oct 25 02:30 UTC 1995 |
If Kernighan shows up, he'll probably be offering *us* help. >8)
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lilmo
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response 41 of 75:
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Oct 25 04:30 UTC 1995 |
For that matter, Spock would probably drop all his Vulcan reserve to laugh
at our system... :-)
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sidhe
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response 42 of 75:
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Oct 25 17:54 UTC 1995 |
That's quite a picture.
While I am desperatly monolingual, I see a good idea in the works,
here.. let's try and prioritize this: Would spanish be the most
often-used language, or french, or..? Once it is determined which is
the one we need the most, then we can assign someone to it, and get the
show moving..
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lilmo
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response 43 of 75:
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Oct 25 19:23 UTC 1995 |
Spanish is the most-used language in the US (after English), but I am not sure
that hispanoablantes are those we would be most exposed to here, since outside
the US, they tend to live in very poor nations (ie, less computers). Germany
is one of the largest and richest nations in Europe (which is, I think, where
most of our transoceanic traffic comes from), and French is spoken in Quebec,
which is relatively affluent, and is right next door (so to speak). Perhaps
a survey of some sort is called for?
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steve
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response 44 of 75:
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Oct 26 04:02 UTC 1995 |
We can sort of do a survey already by looking in one of the
logs that Grex has, and pull out all the machine names, and parse
out the country codes.
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popcorn
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response 45 of 75:
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Oct 26 14:56 UTC 1995 |
It *does* seem that most the non-English help requests arrive in Spanish.
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sidhe
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response 46 of 75:
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Oct 26 19:18 UTC 1995 |
Well, suvey away! Once we know for certain where our effort would
be best employed, this project can move forward..
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robh
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response 47 of 75:
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Oct 26 23:44 UTC 1995 |
The various countries of Central and South America are
getting onto the Internet in a big way these days, hence
the numerous requests for help in Spanish. (I don't
think I've seen one yet that was actually from Spain.)
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srw
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response 48 of 75:
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Oct 27 06:39 UTC 1995 |
We have had quite a number of connections from Spain and Colombia.
Mexico is way behind Colombia, I believe. So is the rest of Latin America.
Most of the Colombia connections come from University of the Andes
uniandes.edu.co, but there are other sites as well.
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popcorn
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response 49 of 75:
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Oct 27 12:48 UTC 1995 |
We've had oodles of connections from all over Europe, too, but most the
people from Europe seem to ask for help in English.
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