<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><b><i>Serge Ilunga</i></b><div><b><i>Cell: +243814443160</i></b></div><div><b><i>Skype: sergekbk</i></b></div><div><b><i>R.D.Congo</i></b></div></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Mark Elkins <mje@posix.co.za> </div><div>Date: 01/02/2016 09:21 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: community-discuss@afrinic.net </div><div>Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] Improving participation of Francophone and Arab countries </div><div><br></div></div>On Sat, 2016-01-02 at 03:06 +0400, Chevalier du Borg wrote:<br>> <br>> <br>> 2016-01-01 23:57 GMT+04:00 Hytham El-Nakhal <hytham@tra.gov.eg>:<br>> Hi Borg and All,<br>> <br>> <br>> Happy New Year for All :)<br>> <br>> <br>> @Borg, Let's continue our brain-storm on how to increase<br>> participation from Francophone and Arab countries on the<br>> Community mailing-list.<br>> <br>> <br><br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> APATHY! (they don't really care). i willing to bet that you can<br>> translate entire site into arabic or french and the community<br>> engagement (as evidence by RPD discussions etc will not change. <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> to jump straight to translation might be solving the wrong problem. my<br>> evidence for APATHY is the number of french/arabic on this list even<br>> discussing this (4 arabics so far and 8 french)<br>> <br>> <br>> to be clear, there's APATHY even in anglophones ...that's why you have<br>> the same 8 - 10 people doing all the discussion.<br>> <br>The other possible explanation is that AFRINIC is seen as doing a<br>reasonable job, so for many people, there is no reason for them to raise<br>their voices. <br><br><br>-- <br>Mark James ELKINS - Posix Systems - (South) Africa<br>mje@posix.co.za Tel: +27.128070590 Cell: +27.826010496<br>For fast, reliable, low cost Internet in ZA: https://ftth.posix.co.za<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Community-Discuss mailing list<br>Community-Discuss@afrinic.net<br>https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss<br></body></html>