From: Patrick M. <pa...@mo...> - 2007-11-30 11:00:03
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#333399"> Hi,<br> <br> My intention for this was really not to create a "proper" sub-group where technical support / dev issues would be handled outside the main forum.<br> It was just an ide of a way to get in touch with people from a specific region, to make people aware of the location of the people on the list.<br> <br> A map showing the location of the members of the list (on a country level) would be a great help, then it would be up to each member to contact other members on an "off list" level.<br> Just a thought.<br> <br> <br> /Patrick<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Per-Olof Norén skrev följande, 2007-11-30 11:34: <blockquote cite="mid:474...@al..." type="cite">Hi, <br> <br> Well, since here in sweden english is taught as a mandatory second language in school, I say no need for changing the language. <br> English is the de facto least common denominator. <br> But, It might be of some interest to put a wiki page (or similar) where one could register as a user or offer comercial support? <br> I know this is the case with postgresql. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support">http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support</a> <br> <br> Cheers, <br> Per-Olof <br> (Stockholm, Sweden) <br> <br> Andrea Aime skrev: <br> <blockquote type="cite">Patrick Mollbrink ha scritto: <br> <blockquote type="cite">Hi List, <br> <br> I'm fairly new to the list and I have noticed a few active members that have Swedish (or Nordic at least) looking names. To further reveal my vague knowledge of this community :-D I'm wondering if there is any region specific sub-groups? <br> <br> What I'm after here is really to get in contact with Geoserver developers/users in Sweden. <br> <br> My company is right now involved in a project using Geoserver here in Sweden and I thought it would be nice to be able to share experience with other "locals". <br> </blockquote> <br> To my knowledge there is no Swedish developer. Current developers <br> are based in USA, Canada, Italy, France and Spain. <br> I guess Swedish looking name were either users on the wrong mailing <br> list or advanced users that really needed to address some complex <br> topic with the developers. <br> <br> <blockquote type="cite">So, what do you say list, would it be possible to either set up "regional/country sub-groups" or make it possible to search the member list for country origin or similar? <br> </blockquote> <br> For the developers list that would not make sense, we are few and dev <br> matters are better kept in a single place. <br> <br> For the users mailing lists, it might make sense to setup national <br> users lists in native language, it may help people who have troubles <br> with english in fact. At the same time, it would make it harder for us <br> to help people, so to setup one of these I guess we would need someone <br> to take care of it and relay back issues and observations onto the <br> english mailing list (I for one can speak only italian and english, <br> and a little bit of french). It would also make it harder to search <br> for solutions in the archive since there might be one, but in one <br> of the mailing lists you don't understand :) <br> What do other users think? Would you find this helpful? <br> <br> </blockquote> <br> <br> <br> </blockquote> <br> <div class="moz-signature">-- <br> <title>Patrick Mollbrink</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <meta content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0" name="GENERATOR"> <meta content="FrontPage.Editor.Document" name="ProgId"> <br> </div> </body> </html> |