Thanks Marcus for the additional thoughts.  I think we may be able to avoid this issues bu summarizing questions and responses, and attempting to outline differing thoughts or conflicts surrounding certain issues.  As I understand it, anything I post to this forum is public, and aside from egregious plagiary or slander, recycling this information would be OK.  I do understand your concerns regarding attribution, or directly quoting anyone in a translation situation.   This may warrant further discussion, and there will likely be some trial and error.  <br>
<br>Saludos,<br><br>Alex  <br><br>  <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Markus Schlattmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:firmen@schlattmann.de">firmen@schlattmann.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

  
    
  
  <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
    Hi Alex,<br>
    <br>
    some other problems I just became aware of after thinking a few
    minutes about this translation issue: <br>
    It may be a little bit complicated getting agreements for copying
    and translation (especially if this must be done with every single
    user of a list or a board) and giving source information.<br>
    It also will be diffilcult managing the translation of replies to
    the original user in the language of the original posting.<br>
    Direct private messages and requests to the original poster will
    nearly become impossible.<br>
    <br>
    Markus<br>
    <br>
    his posting is somewhere * how are is the user treated<br>
    <br>
    Am 30.11.2010 21:46, schrieb Alexander Eaton:
    <div><div></div><div class="h5"><blockquote type="cite">
      
      Thanks Marcus, <br>
      <br>
      We also fear that automated translations are not sufficient for
      this type of discussion, but we may have a bit of funding for
      summarized translation as necessary.  Since Spanish is now the
      second most spoken language, we feel like it would be appropriate
      for this type of discussion in that language to serve this large
      population.  English is a good catch all for the scientific
      community, but I can imagine that access to German and Chinese
      discussions on the theme would be useful.  We are lucky that our
      colleagues from India speak English!  We will be working on this
      theme further if anyone has any ideas or is interested in
      participating.  <br>
      <br>
      Saludos,<br>
      <br>
      Alex  <br>
      <br>
      <div>On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Markus Schlattmann <span><<a href="mailto:firmen@schlattmann.de" target="_blank">firmen@schlattmann.de</a>></span>
        wrote:<br>
        <blockquote>
          <div> HI Alex,
            <div><br>
              <br>
              <blockquote type="cite">Markus, do you ever post across
                the languages between the German and English
                discussions? Of all the discussion groups I have found,
                this seems to be the most comprehensive and active.  <br>
                <br>
              </blockquote>
              <br>
            </div>
            No, there's no cross-posting between my german and english
            language boards. They are each independent boards. Some
            years ago I also have set up a French and Hungarian language
            board with help of users speaking those languages, but there
            was almost no traffic. So I decided to just keep the german
            and english language boards only.<br>
            <br>
            It's quite ease to set up a group or discussion board but
            it's permanent work to keep it running if it's still small
            and not well known. Since I started my site in 2004  it now
            will have about 1.600.000 page views generated by about
            165.000 visits (this year 2010, robots are not counted).<br>
            So now it's quite well known in Germany and there are new
            postings almost every day. But it will take a lot of
            additional work to get some more action in the other areas
            and english language boards.<br>
            <br>
            If I would translate each posting manually => this would
            be too much work (I also have a "normal" job to do at a
            biogas company :) ).<br>
            And I think automated translation and cross-posting between
            my boards would not be a very good idea, since the quality
            of translations may be very wrong and also the topic
            interests between the english language board users and
            german board users are quite different. <br>
            <br>
            Markus
            <div>
              <div><br>
                <br>
                <blockquote type="cite"><br>
                  Alex <br>
                  <br>
                  <br>
                  <br>
                  <div>On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Markus
                    Schlattmann <span><<a href="mailto:firmen@schlattmann.de" target="_blank">firmen@schlattmann.de</a>></span>
                    wrote:<br>
                    <blockquote>
                      <div> There's also a biogas group on Facebook (not
                        very active) and my own discussion boards on <a href="http://schlattmann.de" target="_blank">schlattmann.de</a>
                        (german: very active, english: still not very
                        active).<br>
                        <br>
                        Markus<br>
                        <br>
                        <br>
                         Am 30.11.2010 16:20, schrieb Anand Karve:
                        <div>
                          <div>
                            <blockquote type="cite">
                              <div>Dear Hooroo,</div>
                              <div>I am the member of only this one
                                group.</div>
                              <div>Yours</div>
                              <div>A.D.Karve<br>
                                <br>
                              </div>
                              <div>On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:21 PM,
                                Mattocks, Richard <span><<a href="mailto:Richard.Mattocks@veoliawater.com" target="_blank">Richard.Mattocks@veoliawater.com</a>></span>
                                wrote:<br>
                                <blockquote>
                                  <div lang="EN-US">
                                    <div>
                                      <p> <span>That was easy. Might
                                          you share contact info for the
                                          org’s?</span> </p>
                                      <p> <span> </span> </p>
                                      <p> <span>Thanks for all your
                                          work.</span> </p>
                                      <p> <span> </span> </p>
                                      <div>
                                        <div>
                                          <div>
                                            <div>
                                              <p> <span>Richard</span>
                                              </p>
                                              <p> <span> </span> <span></span>
                                              </p>
                                            </div>
                                          </div>
                                        </div>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>
                                        <div> <span> </span> </div>
                                        <p><b> <span>From:</span> </b>
                                          <span> <a href="mailto:digestion-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank">digestion-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>
                                            [mailto:<a href="mailto:digestion-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank">digestion-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>]
                                            <b><span>On Behalf Of </span></b>Paul

                                            Harris<br>
                                            <b><span>Sent:</span></b>
                                            Monday, November 29, 2010
                                            9:23 PM<br>
                                            <b><span>To:</span></b> 'For
                                            Discussion of Anaerobic
                                            Digestion'<br>
                                            <b><span>Subject:</span></b>
                                            [Digestion] Biogas Groups</span>
                                          <span></span> </p>
                                      </div>
                                      <p> <span> </span> </p>
                                      <p> <span lang="EN-AU">G’day All,</span>
                                      </p>
                                      <p> <span lang="EN-AU"> </span> </p>
                                      <p> <span lang="EN-AU">As the
                                          number of Anaerobic
                                          Digestion/Biogas Discussion
                                          forums grows I thought it
                                          would be interesting to see
                                          who is a member of what. I
                                          have set up a one question
                                          survey where you can click on
                                          the appropriate lists (or add
                                          any that I have not found
                                          yet!).</span> </p>
                                      <p> <span lang="EN-AU"> </span> </p>
                                      <p> <span lang="EN-AU">Please
                                          participate in the survey at <a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZBCWSH7" target="_blank">http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZBCWSH7</a>
                                          and I will publish the results
                                          for your enlightenment.</span>
                                      </p>
                                      <p> <span lang="EN-AU"> </span> </p>
                                      <p> <span lang="EN-AU">Happy
                                          digesting,</span> </p>
                                      <p> <span lang="EN-AU">HOOROO</span>
                                      </p>
                                      <p> <span lang="EN-AU"> </span> </p>
                                      <p> <span lang="EN-AU">Mr. Paul
                                          Harris, Room S116b, Waite Main
                                          Building Faculty of Sciences,
                                          The  University of Adelaide,
                                          Waite Campus, PMB 1, Glen
                                          Osmond SA 5064 Ph    : +61 8
                                          8303 7880      Fax   :
                                          +61 8 8303 4386 <a href="mailto:paul.harris@adelaide.edu.au" target="_blank">mailto:paul.harris@adelaide.edu.au</a>  


                                          <a href="http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/paul.harris" target="_blank">http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/paul.harris</a></span>
                                      </p>
                                      <p> <span lang="EN-AU"> </span> </p>
                                      <p> <span lang="EN-AU">CRICOS
                                          Provider Number 00123M</span>
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