[Ubuntu-ch] About being positive and contribute instead of lamenting, was: Language

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Should have gone to the list, but I'm tired...

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From: Myriam Schweingruber <schweingruber at pharma-traduction.ch>
Date: Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-ch] Language
To: Dirk Deimeke <dirk.deimeke at ubuntu.com>


Hi DIrk,

I'm getting sick with this discussion, as I have pretty much explained
all that's relevant. Read my mails in detail please, all the answers
are there. We are preparing a release party in Zürich, its going to be
in German and where are all these so many contributors then? I want
them to show up and really, seriously give a hand, not just "I would
but not in English". There is a wiki page IN GERMAN for that party and
we need people to help, where the heck are they?

Excuse me if I can't take these laments seriously, because every time
we ask for people to give a hand it ends up in hot air and the
existing Team members give their arms and legs to make things happen,
working evenings and weekends. That's the reality and the oh so
precious Swiss way and "Kantönligeist" that even seems to persist in
younger generations. If it's not in their village and in their
particular dialect, they always come with lame excuses. I live in this
beautiful country since my birth and know it ways better than you even
imagine, participating in all the four cultural and linguistic
communities and knowing the Swiss attitude, lurking and hiding
everywhere and preventing things to happen. Complaining is a Swiss
national sport, but doing it better is not amongst the qualities.

Instead of complaining and being negative, at least some of these
folks so eager to work with us could have gone to the wiki pages and
come up with suggestions and really, concretely contribute, I haven't
seen one so far...

All the necessary indications have been given, over and over again, in
already 3 of the four languages (waiting for an Italian translator to
help with the fourth one), nobody showed up so far, that the reality.

Consider this discussion over. No complaining, acting please!

Myriam

who should have spent her Sunday in a better way than that, really!

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