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From: Ganesan Rajagopal <rganesan@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Chinese Language Maintainer
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:10:28 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xkvhwsx1j70j.fsf@grajagop-lnx.cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070715195008.6bdf48c7@the-village.bc.nu

>>>>> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> That aside, please remember that Europe as a whole is a small place on the
> bigger world stage. The total volume of potential developers in the huge
> and rapidly modernising nations like India and China is vast, and there
> are large highly skilled technical nations that don't teach English to
> everyone technical by default.

Speaking for India only, while the medium of instruction in primary and high
school is available in native languages, English is almost universally
preferred.  Moreover, technical education is completely in English. I don't
see much value in translating developer documentation into Indian
languages. User documentation is another story.

Ganesan

-- 
Ganesan Rajagopal


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-16  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 134+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-13 15:06 [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages holzheu
2007-06-13 16:37 ` Dave Hansen
2007-06-13 17:11   ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-13 17:42   ` holzheu
2007-06-13 16:50 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-06-13 18:09   ` Rob Landley
2007-06-13 18:11   ` holzheu
2007-06-14  8:47     ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-06-15  8:49   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-13 17:16 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-06-13 17:46   ` holzheu
2007-06-13 17:51 ` Greg KH
2007-06-13 18:18   ` holzheu
2007-06-13 18:32     ` Greg KH
2007-06-13 18:49       ` Dave Hansen
2007-06-13 18:49       ` Kok, Auke
2007-06-14  8:17       ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-06-13 19:04     ` Joe Perches
2007-06-14  2:54       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-06-14  7:05         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-15  8:51       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-13 18:15 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-14  8:31   ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-06-14  9:41   ` Jan Kara
2007-06-14 10:38     ` holzheu
2007-06-14 11:47       ` holzheu
2007-06-14 12:26         ` Jan Kara
2007-06-14 15:22           ` holzheu
2007-06-15 18:42       ` Gerrit Huizenga
2007-06-15 18:51         ` Randy Dunlap
2007-06-15 19:27           ` Gerrit Huizenga
2007-06-15 20:01           ` Greg KH
2007-06-18 12:55         ` holzheu
2007-06-18 13:12           ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-18 13:33             ` Jan Kara
2007-06-18 13:53             ` holzheu
2007-06-19  1:36               ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-19  8:51                 ` holzheu
2007-06-19 19:24                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-19 11:31                 ` holzheu
2007-06-19  5:41           ` [Lf_kernel_messages] " Kunai, Takashi
2007-06-18 13:11         ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-18 15:35           ` Randy Dunlap
2007-06-19  0:13         ` Tim Bird
2007-06-19  3:52           ` Gerrit Huizenga
2007-06-15 12:40     ` Pavel Machek
2007-06-18 13:42       ` holzheu
2007-06-18 14:02         ` Pavel Machek
2007-06-25 13:48   ` Documentation of kernel messages (Summary) Michael Holzheu
2007-06-25 15:44     ` Rob Landley
2007-06-25 18:05       ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-27 15:11       ` Michael Holzheu
2007-07-09  5:15         ` Kunai, Takashi
2007-07-09  5:36           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-09 16:48             ` Rob Landley
2007-07-09 17:18               ` Gerrit Huizenga
2007-07-10 16:12                 ` Rob Landley
2007-07-11 12:15                   ` Michael Holzheu
2007-07-11 14:26                   ` Li Yang
2007-07-11 18:13                     ` Rob Landley
2007-07-11 21:32                       ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-13 10:53                         ` Alan Cox
2007-07-13 12:49                           ` Li Yang
2007-07-13 13:43                             ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-13 13:25                           ` Stefan Richter
2007-07-13 21:10                             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-07-13 18:05                           ` Rob Landley
2007-07-14  3:54                             ` Randy Dunlap
2007-07-15  1:56                               ` Rob Landley
2007-07-15 16:28                                 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-07-16 19:53                                   ` Rob Landley
2007-08-03 18:11                                     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-08-03 19:32                                       ` Rob Landley
2007-08-04  3:50                                         ` Greg KH
2007-08-04 19:02                                           ` Rob Landley
2007-08-04  3:52                                         ` Greg KH
2007-08-04 18:54                                           ` Rob Landley
2007-08-04 20:04                                             ` Stefan Richter
2007-08-06 15:50                                               ` Rob Landley
2007-07-11 21:53                       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-07-12 16:56                         ` Rob Landley
2007-07-12 13:53                       ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-07-12 16:05                         ` [PATCH] Chinese Language Maintainer Rob Landley
2007-07-12 19:52                           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-12 20:02                           ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-13  7:42                             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-13 16:06                             ` Rob Landley
2007-07-13 12:43                           ` Li Yang
2007-07-13 17:52                             ` Rob Landley
2007-07-15 14:42                               ` Li Yang
2007-07-15 18:12                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-15 18:50                                   ` Alan Cox
2007-07-15 19:11                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-15 20:25                                       ` Rik van Riel
2007-07-16  4:40                                     ` Ganesan Rajagopal [this message]
2007-07-16 21:43                                       ` Alan Cox
2007-07-17  7:19                                         ` Ganesan Rajagopal
2007-07-15 18:53                                   ` Li Yang
2007-07-15 20:25                                   ` Rene Herman
2007-07-16  9:17                                   ` Dr. Keith G. Bowden
2007-07-16  2:49                                 ` Tsugikazu Shibata
2007-07-16  3:03                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-17 16:24                                   ` Li Yang
2007-07-17 21:06                                     ` Rob Landley
2007-07-12 16:41                         ` Documentation of kernel messages (Summary) Tsugikazu Shibata
2007-07-12 17:35                         ` Rob Landley
2007-07-13  2:54                           ` Tsugikazu Shibata
2007-07-13 17:12                             ` Rob Landley
2007-07-14  1:46                               ` Tsugikazu Shibata
2007-07-15  2:12                                 ` Rob Landley
2007-07-15 16:46                                   ` Tsugikazu Shibata
2007-07-17 16:06                                     ` Rob Landley
2007-07-17 23:30                                       ` Tsugikazu Shibata
2007-07-13 11:54                           ` Li Yang
2007-07-15 20:30                             ` Rik van Riel
2007-07-09 18:33               ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-10 16:25                 ` Rob Landley
2007-07-10 18:54                   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-10 19:53                     ` Rob Landley
2007-07-17  0:31                   ` Tim Bird
2007-07-17  1:17                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-17 16:42                       ` Rob Landley
2007-07-17 16:29                     ` Rob Landley
2007-07-10  7:59               ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-07-10  6:38             ` Dave Young
2007-07-09  7:01           ` Oliver Neukum
2007-07-09 22:59             ` Satyam Sharma
2007-07-10  6:15               ` Oliver Neukum
2007-07-09 18:10       ` [Lf_kernel_messages] " Theodore Tso
2007-07-09 22:12         ` Alan Cox
2007-07-10 16:50         ` Rob Landley
2007-06-13 18:23 ` [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages David Miller
2007-06-13 18:27   ` holzheu
2007-07-19 18:06 [PATCH] Chinese Language Maintainer Tsugikazu Shibata

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