[Foundation-l] [Announce] Brion Vibber to rejoin Wikimedia Foundation

[phoebe ayers]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:51 AM, church.of.emacs.ml
<church.of.emacs.ml at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 03/08/2011 10:25 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
>> I'd like to see that tested, personally. More than 50% of the
>> Foundation contributors do not write in English, and don't read
>> English as a primary language; if this is true, then we should
>> implement a better solution for foundation-level discussions in other
>> major language families.
>
> Indeed, language barriers should not be underestimated.
>
> But I don't think making foundation-l multilingual would solve any
> problem: It'd just make this list even more confusing and unclear :)
>
> We already have mailing lists in other languages (e.g. WikiDE-l), what's
> really missing is communications between those lists.
> (Just to throw in a crazy idea: Informal monthly reports on what's going
> on in the communities and what's bothering them? And on the other hand a
> summary of what's being discussed on foundation-l?)

*cough* Please someone revive LSS please: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS

:)
-- phoebe

p.s. welcome back Brion! We should have Esperanto-only day just for you.