New PUG Needed

Polish User Group.

http://www.plus.net/pl/

Already included on the new Community Site http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php?board=20.0

Heh. I wonder why they chose to rollout in Polish? Was it a full blown business decision or is someone Polish and just thought it would be fun to do a bit of localisation in their spare time?

Seems a bit daft if you ask me.

Many other more common languages in use in Britain ... yet they chose Polish ....

Any chance to spin eh

bs0d.

Given the number of very good Polish computer specialist available relatively cheaply I suspect it was because they have the resources to do it.

Perhaps because Polish has become synonymous with the word cheap in the UK, as has Plusnet. Although the latter does not have such a good reputation for quality of its workmanship. It seems like a perfect choice for attracting more cusomers.

Edited by deleted (Mon 25-Jun-07 17:37:56)

Obviously much more important than answering questions about the report

Hi there,

We do have a few Polish people working here at PlusNet and they decided to undertake this project. They would have had no ownership in the responding to queries regarding the report.

It's a fair point that there are other larger communities within the UK that are non English speaking - I've seen references towards those of the Cymru dialect earlier today, but unfortunately I don't believe we have anyone here fluent in Welsh!

I don't really see how this could be seen as a negative thing.

No, I think it's quite fun to be honest And a nice way to have people working for a company be involved and able to be proud of their language.

Thanks for the explanation of how it came to be. Hopefully some more languages will appear in time!

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I don't really see how this could be seen as a negative thing

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I'm not saying it's a negative thing, in fact it's a positive step forward. I was just pointing out that it appeared to be higher on the agenda than answering the questions, and thereby reassuring your current customer base.

The impression was given that "everyone" was fully committed to Project 20:08, resulting in the slippage. Apparently this is not actually the case.