Finnish board

Flammie · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 12:09 pm Post subject: Finnish board

Other languages forum currently seems to have some dozen questions in Finnish and people are looking in irc and on other boards for Finnish gentoo board. I think that a separate board would encourage people asking questions and ease locals to find the questions since they are rather hard to seek for from the other languages mess. I'm putting up a poll as well but the main stress should be on the conversation.

Mikessu · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 3:15 pm Post subject:

Yes, I think finnish forum could be a good idea. There are pretty many finnish users in Gentoo forums already and there are very many finnish topic in other languages section.

EDIT: If needed I can also be a moderator, I have experience with PhpBB moderating and I have plenty of time for that.

ronmon · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 4:21 pm Post subject:

As an uninterested party, I'd have to vote for this. After all, you are number 4 overall in per capita users (and first among those with a significant population).

Not to mention, the father and benevolent dictator of Linux is Finnish

jaska · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 11:07 am Post subject:

I agree that there should be our own forum in Finnish. That way everything posted in Finnish will be in one place and not scattered around the other languages.

dfC · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 5:36 pm Post subject: Finnish forum?

Godfather · n00b Joined: 21 Mar 2004 Posts: 17 Location: Canada

20 - 0

Well we don't have much to lose by adding Finnish, so why not

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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 6:39 pm Post subject:

Flammie,

Its more likely to happen if you can find a few finnish readers to donate some time as modertors of the new board. That was a problem with a recent new language board.

You have my vote.
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jaska · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 8:57 pm Post subject:

If there is a need of moderators, I could become one since I already spend too much time in the forums anyway.

Flammie · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 11:01 pm Post subject:

I have just finished some heavy work at university and have also way too much time at my hands if it is acceptable for a (lurker) n00b to moderate

Icer · Guru Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 395 Location: @home

Allright, we need to advertise this in the other forums/threads.

And Thumbs up for Jaska for volunteering! :wink:

jaska · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 3:12 pm Post subject:

32 votes, 31 for and 1 vote against. If there is to be a Finnish forum this is definitly not making anything happen

Flammie · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 8:29 pm Post subject:

Spawn of Lovechild · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:33 pm Post subject:

I have previously voiced my opinion on the many none english subforums on f.g.o, and my argument remains WHY??

Learn english or register www.gentoousers.<foo> - seriously we have quite to many forums here as it is.

Another option would be to make viewing them on the forum root an option in the profile - personally I think they are just clutter so I would like to see them go the way of /dev/null.

tstf !!
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Flammie · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:58 pm Post subject:

[lengthy ranting ahead]

Spawn of Lovechild · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 10:13 am Post subject:

I tell you what... I'll support your every demand for a finnish forum (since you guys and your language kicks ass), if you will join in the fight to get spammer registration protective meassures installed and a kernel forum set up.

But if you don't understand english the odds of you actually succesfully installing Gentoo are about zero. As for the bad english, if people would only add their location to their profile it would be easier to weed out the none natives, hell I'm a none native english speaking kinda guy, I spell like crap - yet I'm fairly easily understood (or so I gather), posts take time to be correct in so cases.
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Flammie · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 10:52 am Post subject:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 7:16 pm Post subject:

Spawn of Lovechild,

I support the various language forums becase some users are not comfortable having to read and write in a foreign language.
Reading and understanding a second language is 'much' easier than writing and speaking.

Where can I vote for the Kernel forum ????
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Spawn of Lovechild · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 9:44 am Post subject:

Flammie · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 12:46 am Post subject:

Duck-Billed Platypus · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 3:56 am Post subject:

I support you all the way

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I think that people should learn a 'real' language instead of English; the English language is horribly messed up. The 'gh' in 'ghost' is pronounced with a 'g' sound, whereas the 'gh' in 'laugh' is pronounced with an 'f' sound. This also makes it harder for foreigners to learn English, I think.
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Kenja · n00b Joined: 21 Mar 2004 Posts: 27

maybe everyone should start hijacking threads and stuff.

Post a whole bunch of Finnish stuff in a random thread then follow it up with.

Flammie · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 2:34 pm Post subject:

Kernel board is up

pilla · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 5:53 pm Post subject:

Mikessu · Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 6:01 pm Post subject:

jaska · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 9:27 am Post subject:

I looked at the Polish forum's amount of votes, we are still 20 or so votes short of what they have in total.