I'm in favor of everything that moves the whole Maemo universe away from its current English-only status and adds some user-friendliness by making people able to at least read what we've got.

OTOH, there already is a German thread here, but it isn't too active at the moment. Maybe it's the old chicken-egg-problem. Maybe N800.de is still too popular. Maybe to attract people who don't speak english, you need a site that's completely in their respective languages, not only a sub-forum. I don't know.

The only thing I do know is that those fellow tablet-owners I know here in Austria don't have access to the most basic information (how to encode videos for the tablets, how to install software, how and why to update your OS) because they don't find it in German. It must be very frustrating to own a tablet and not know about all these basic things.