Hi, I wish to express my support for this request. Happily there's an increasing number of events related to Debian in the whole american region and a number of local communities, each hosting different mailing lists, so every now and then it happens that users geographically close to the events don't attend because they never knew of them.
As Fernando points out, the language barrier is a significant issue: not everyone in America speaks English or Spanish or Portuguese (or any of the dozens of other languages spoken here). Spanish is the language with the most native speakers in America, with English being second and Portuguese third. For this reason debian-events-na is not appropriate for events in the hispanic regions of America (besides the obvious geographical reason) and the communities in the individual countries or subregions are not large enough to justify individual mailing lists for each of them. Having an official Debian mailing list for this purpose would increase visibility and help bring the communities together. An -ha events list follows the same pattern as the existing -na and -eu. Thanks, Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
