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

[Margot]

On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 22:59:02 +0200
Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Frederic Janssens <fjanss at gmail.com> schrieb am 2010-10-03
> > On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 22:49, Oliver Burger 
> <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com>wrote:
> > > 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...
> > 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.
> 
> Agreed,
>  but what about the Republic of Ireland? And other countries
> speaking English as their native language?
> 
> Oliver

We wanted our own UK channel so we could organise the physical
presence of Mageia promotors at events in the UK, and also for
discussing problems relating to UK-specific hardware & services.

I can see no reason why there couldn't be a channel for IE, US, CA,
NZ, AU and other English-speaking countries as well if they have
people who want to organise local activity in their countries - we
have taken the lead, it's up to people in those other countries to
decide if they want to follow our example.

-- 
Margot
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