When we installed our group the guy who checked this said that the description on the frontpage has to be in english. Beyond that on drupal.org it seems to be OK for geographical groups to use the particular language of the country. Many of the geographical groups do this, e. g. http://groups.drupal.org/france or http://groups.drupal.org/münchen .
Me too I believe that most people on drupal.org are able to understand english. But in our special region the other languages (in particular German and French) are quite common too.
I voted for the 2nd option, that is the free choice between de, fr, en and - for reasons of equality - lu.
Not all of the French people understand "English", not all of the Germans understand "French" and nobody in our region understand "Letzeburgisch" ... in the end the result will be that every group stays within the borders of their own language ... English is something that everybody in our region understands - especially the IT people. I think only this way you can achieve a real community feeling ... That way Saar-Lor-Lux is different from groups in Munich or some other region, in our region you need something like a "gemeinsamer Nenner" and that can only be English.
For testing I inserted two links on the top of the page http://groups.drupal.org/node/106999 for Frensh and English translation by Google. It's certainly not perfect, but quite usefull, isn't it?
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Übersetzer
Beim Verständnis von Beiträgen in fremden Sprachen kann http://translate.google.de/ helfen. Auch sehr gut: http://www.leo.org/ .
Luxemburgisch ist da aber leider nicht bei. :-(
Language in this group
I think it should be usable and easily readible by all users on drupal.org.
Therefore English is a must from my point of view.
Other geographical groups
When we installed our group the guy who checked this said that the description on the frontpage has to be in english. Beyond that on drupal.org it seems to be OK for geographical groups to use the particular language of the country. Many of the geographical groups do this, e. g. http://groups.drupal.org/france or http://groups.drupal.org/münchen .
Me too I believe that most people on drupal.org are able to understand english. But in our special region the other languages (in particular German and French) are quite common too.
I voted for the 2nd option, that is the free choice between de, fr, en and - for reasons of equality - lu.
Language
Not all of the French people understand "English", not all of the Germans understand "French" and nobody in our region understand "Letzeburgisch" ... in the end the result will be that every group stays within the borders of their own language ... English is something that everybody in our region understands - especially the IT people. I think only this way you can achieve a real community feeling ... That way Saar-Lor-Lux is different from groups in Munich or some other region, in our region you need something like a "gemeinsamer Nenner" and that can only be English.
Google Translator
For testing I inserted two links on the top of the page http://groups.drupal.org/node/106999 for Frensh and English translation by Google. It's certainly not perfect, but quite usefull, isn't it?