[openstack-community] Chinese Ask OpenStack

Rich Bowen rbowen at redhat.com
Mon Sep 12 13:44:31 UTC 2016



On 09/11/2016 02:33 AM, Gene Kuo wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I found that the Chinese version of ask.openstack.org is inactive for a long time. 
> There're only 143 questions asked over 3 years and quite a lot of them aren't answered.
> 
> I've contacted the Chinese user group leader Ye Lu and the reply is that people rarely use it and there're already better methods for getting help in the Chinese user group.

Can you elaborate on these 'better methods', so that I can be sending
people to the right place? Thanks.


> 
> My idea is to remove the Chinese version of ask.o.o and leave only the English version to better improve the user experience.
> 
> I would like to gather some comments from the community mailing list to see if there's any other great ideas that can put into consideration. Thanks a lot.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Gene Kuo
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Yelu" <yeluaiesec at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 9, 2016 11:14pm
> To: "Gene Kuo" <gene at openstack.org>
> Cc: tom at openstack.org
> Subject: Re: Chinese Ask OpenStack
> 
> Hey Gene,
> We did not use the ask.openstack.org much, for most open-source developers
> English reading is not a problem.
> Another reason here, in China we got many handy ways to communicate and
> discuss, like csdn website, online forum or wechat group like slack.
> 
> And We had tried to let people to ask on the platform, but it's not as
> active as the global site.
> 
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 8:56 PM Gene Kuo <gene at openstack.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ye Lu,
>>
>> I'm currently working as a community intern in Foundation.
>>
>> I would like to ask your opinion about the Mandarin version of
>> ask.openstack.org
>> There're only 143 questions asked in Mandarin in over 3 years and quite a
>> lot of them are not answered. I'm thinking if the Mandarin version if
>> necessary for ask.o.o.
>>
>> From your experience in Chinese OpenStack user group, do most people
>> require a Mandarin version of documents or platform for reading and
>> learning or it's just optional as English reading is not a problem?
>>
>> Greatly appreciated for any feedback.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Gene Kuo
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 
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