Re: proposed International Technical Writers Group

[Alexia Prendergast <alexiap -at- SEAGATESOFTWARE -dot- COM>]

Good points -- my responses are:

1. Well, I can read several languages, but I don't know
about inflicting my poor written grammar in those languages
on everyone....  I think this is a practical issue. While we
can create a web page in several languages (TBD, depending
on who volunteers to translate, probably), the list should
be in one language. (Esperanto? ;-)

2. I absolutely expect for the charter to change -- the items
are suggestions only.

3. I hadn't thought about mail-list moderation, to tell you
the truth. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
A.

--
Alexia Prendergast
Senior Technical Writer
Seagate Software
mailto:alexiap -at- sems -dot- com

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Elna Tymes [SMTP:etymes -at- lts -dot- com]
>
>Looks good to me.  Three caveats, however:
>
>1.  How are you going to handle the multilingual issue? Are all messages
>on the maillist to be in English?
>2.  Be prepared to add/change/delete things in your charter having to do
>with purpose and activities, especially in the first year.
>3. Do you intend to moderate the maillist?  If so, what are the
>criteria?  There are strong arguments pro and con, incidentaly, so be
>prepared for objections no matter what you do.
>

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