[OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-fr] Continued aggression against French contributors (cadastre integration)

[Cartinus]

On 10/18/2012 09:44 PM, Christian Rogel wrote:
> By the way, could you stand receiving any message in a language you
> cannot understand. that seems to be looking for
> infuriating the non-English speaking users?


On 10/18/2012 10:30 PM, Eric Marsden wrote:
>   - the way in which DWG is undertaking its monitoring+blocking, by
>     sending aggressive messages to contributors in a language which they
>     can be presumed not to understand

<sarcasm on>
So a requirement for the membership of the DWG should be that you are a
polyglot. Of course all messages about issues in country X should be
send in the official language and those of all known minority languages
of the country.
<sarcasm off>


I think it is more reasonable to assume that any contributor to a
multinational open project like openstreetmap knows how to use
<http://translate.google.com> or any other such service.

The continued use of the argument "the message was not in French" is
just silly. You don't have to like that the lingua franca of the
internet age is English, but if you want to be heard in projects like
OSM, you better accept it.


---
m.v.g.,
Cartinus


P.S. No, English is not my native language.