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quim, I never (!) wanted to blame you or the maemo team! i thought it was visible that I am only angry because of the german nokia care (who answered at my question this morning, your answer came last evening - i directly forwardet their mail to you at I think 9am), not because of nokia at all. it makes me angry that i didn't get any information from the german team except a very, very strict prohibition, the finish team (/ you) on the other hand cares more than your job demands. this is what i expect from a community-near team and i'm glad to see that the misbehavior from the german team was just a exclusion. and well - i would never run an illegal website, especially not if i have the possibility to contact the right persons directly through the community...

sorry that my sorrows made this thread go off topic - as an excusement i have another argument concerning new language categories:

imagine that sweet teeny girl next door buys a n900 with maemo (only because it looks tight, has a nice camera, facebook works and daddy lend her his credit card). then for example she wants to modify party pictures directly after she shot them. what do you think will she google for? "maemo 5 gimp port" or will she google for "nokia n900 bildbearbeitung"? i think she will search for the second one - and where will she possibly look for results, in a "geeky" developer board with mailing list and flooding people crying because of trademark **** or kernel hacks or whatever - or will she look at her native maemo / n900 community board with blinky blinky applications and other girls, grandmas etc. asking similar questions like "where can i get a lie detector for my n900" or "how can i change the background of my n900 to fit with the pink horses i painted on the plastic case"? in short: this here is the official maemo page, here are developers and here is tech-zone. all-day-users won't really fit into this and i don't think that the geeks in here can't explain their technical issues in english. also, if english stays the main language (or only language) no questions would be asked two times in different languages.

but all in all I don't think an own language section would be bad, I just think that no one would miss them if they weren't here and it would be better to concentrate officially on one language to make problems accessible for everyone!

Last edited by jph; 2009-11-05 at 17:16.