[Groups] What's the rationale for regional group names?
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Regional groups should allow for the native languages the cover, imho. Sometimes it is hard to express the problem in english - way not all of us are native english speakers and many have may have only some limited knowledge of english. If the problem is important enough, it will pop up in the main forums too, I'm sure.
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I see a big advantage for people, that are not that well in English or that can't describe their problems in English. There already exist some forums in German for Qt, because those people want to talk German (why ever :-)). So that's why the language groups perhaps should talk in native, if they want.
I agree that the disadvantage is, that not all people can follow the discussions, but that's why it's a language / regional group, isn't it? Otherwise they could also talk in the global forum. -
just a side note, in India we have about 850+ languages that are spoken of which, about 23 languages are considered official ... so at present we stick to English here :)
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Perhaps we should have regional and/or language groups?
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For me the best way is to have languages groups.
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Both "types" of group seem to make sense. You may want a Brazilian/Brazil group for people that live in Brazil and want to share experiences, make "close contact", find job opportunities, ...
But you may also want to have a "Portuguese speaking group" for people that feel more comfortable or can only speak Portuguese. This one would be a good starting point for documents written in Portuguese.
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Ok, now how comes that I see a "Qt Germany" forum and a "Spanish" one (i.e. Qt + country vs. Language)?
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I thought it was Qt German? Volker, could you please change that?
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In fact, it's a Qt German group (I had a look now)
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Yes and there is italian forum.
[quote author="peppe" date="1292516492"]Ok, now how comes that I see a "Qt Germany" forum and a "Spanish" one (i.e. Qt + country vs. Language)?[/quote] -
Ok, I think I had a look while renaming was in progress. Nice job, everybody! :-)
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Hm... it was always "Qt German". I did not notice it changed and further changed back...