[PD] What about multilingual Pd ?

[Marc Lavallée]

Le 13 Décembre 2005 06:26, derek holzer a écrit :

> Shouldn't a software, free or not, be usable whether the user is a
> developer or not?
> ... 
> merging of the user and the developer communities in this 
> particular case of Free Software often leaves the developers and the
> "power-users" as a kind of "hacker elite".
> ...
> This is a barrier to more widespread use of the software 
> among (non-programmer) artists. Or do we ONLY want users who are also
> developers?
> ...
> I guess 
> the main difference I have is a user-centered perspective, rather then a
> developer-centered one.

The idea is not to merge users and developers communities, or create an 
elite, or leave users behind, or anything like that. As long as people will 
consider software literacy (or technology in general) like artists usually 
do, we'll be in trouble. Honestly, I don't know what is a "user-centered 
perspective", because I don't believed in restrictive concepts that divides 
people into clear techno-classes. Technology is a natural extend of our 
bodies (including our brains), so if we want to live together with 
technology, we should stop thinking in terms of users vs developers.
--
Marc