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

[Frederic Janssens]

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 22:49, Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Margot <margot at otfordduckscomputers.co.uk> schrieb am 2010-10-03
> > > > SO, what we need to know is: are we going by geography
> > > > (two-letter country codes as per the ISO list here:
> > > > http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_code_elements).
> > > > or by language (such as en-gb)?
> > > My opinion is that we should try to follow ISO convention where
> > > it is applicable. Therefore the IRC'S would be:
> > >
> > > #mageia-gb for United Kingdom
> > > #mageia-ua for Ukraine
>
> I don't know if we do need channels for geographic locations. E.g. there is
> a
> channel #mageia-de which - in my opinion is for all people speaking German.
> I
> don't think separate channels for Germans, Austrians and Swiss would make
> sense.
> The reason for having those "sub channels" is, that people can speak in
> their
> own language...
>
> Oliver
>

Well, I think UK is a somewhat special case : english is the language for
'everybody', so any 'local' conversation is submerged. Other laguages don't
have that problem to that extent.

-- 

Frederic
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