[HanoiLUG] subscribers vs languages

[Jean Christophe André]

chairuou a écrit :
> On 9/21/06, *David Favro* <HanoiLUG at meta-dynamic.com 
> <mailto:HanoiLUG at meta-dynamic.com>> wrote:
>
>     Let's be honest: English is the language of IT. [...] But if we
>     want to grow VN's IT sector, one of the current obstacles is the
>     lack of English-language skills.
>
> Agreed ;)
I (almost) agree this too, for IT specialists it's true, and I won't 
detail here and today why French is still spoken in 58 countries and has 
been choosen as the reference language for important things like Olympic 
games, anyway (and yes, I love vietnamese too, even if I'm really lazy 
at learning foreign languages).

But, I think you miss the point of a LUG here!

IMNSHO, a LUG aims at *users*, not at IT specialists. Off course it 
needs IT specialists to *help* users. And these users *may* be IT 
specialists too. But usualy they are not the majority, or the goal would 
have been failed.

This is why we should *not* require LUG *users* to learn english.

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Jean Christophe "プログフ" ANDRÉ — http://asie-pacifique.auf.org/
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