On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 14:28, Pekka Savola wrote: > http://fedora.redhat.com/about/rhel.html says about Fedore Core: > > Users: Early adopters, enthusiasts, developers > > How big a percentage of the above-mentioned user group does not speak > English? > > Note that it's about being able to read/speak/write English, it has > nothing to do with "US" or not. > > My personal belief is that most of the internationalization efforts are of > very low priority for that particular user group. There are more pressing > issues to handle (such as, making it possible to get external > contributions on packages etc. to Fedora, getting the infrastructure ready > all in all, etc.) first. I think you're coming at this from the wrong direction. In GNOME, we have a huge l10n effort and a lot of contributors from all over the world: these people run GNOME in their native language whenever possible. Yes, developers speak English and yes, a lot of people in all countries speak English nowadays. But when it's your second language, internationalisation efforts are of utmost importance. English people, Americans, Australians, etc. are a subset of linux enthusiasts, not the whole. -- Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>
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