[Mageia-discuss] IRC community channels - need a ruling from the board

[Patricia Fraser]

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Hi Thorsten,
 
> As already mentioned in this thread. We have to differentiate between
> the language code and the country code. Both are standardized by the
> ISO. The German language code for example is 'de' where the country
> code ... hmmm if I look at the ISO 3166 the country code is DE too.
> But nevertheless, what I want to say is, that an IRC Channel per
> language is usefull but a channel per country is useless (IMHO). So
> we should focus at the language code, if there is a need of a
> standardization.

Um... no, that's exactly the opposite of why the question was asked.
The UK (or GB) channel was opened *specifically* for local
support/action/events, not primarily for language support, so we *do*
want a locality/geographically-based channel identifier.

Some other folks want language-based channel identifiers.

Seems like we need a scheme that would incorporate both types of
identifier, and maybe some explanation of the identifiers on the
blog/chanserv/whatever.

Also we've noted that we don't have a structure for naming ops and
granting privileges and so forth - need to think about that before the
trolls turn up.

Cheers,

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Patricia Fraser
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