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

Rory Albertyn rory.a at radiantnet.co.za
Sun Oct 3 23:21:36 CEST 2010


On 10/03/2010 10:49 PM, Oliver Burger 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
>
>    
Here in South Africa, we have Both English and Afrikaans users, never 
mind the other 9 out of the 11 official languages we have.


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