On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Søren Bredlund Caspersen < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Paul Tagliamonte <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Proposed-By: Paul Tagliamonte <[email protected]>; > > LoCo Council <[email protected]> > > Scope: All LoCo Teams, Worldwide > > Status: Draft > > Rational: loco.ubuntu.com looks inconsistent and sloppy > > > > Howdy, LoCo Contacts, > > > > The LoCo Council has drafted up a proposal to standardize the display > > name of all LoCo teams to help un-uglyfy the LoCo Directory team > > list[1]. > > > > [1]: http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ > > SNIP > > > We have come up with a basic standardized format for team "display > > name" on Launchpad, they should be in the following formats:- > > * "Ubuntu COUNTRY_NAME Local Community". e.g. "Ubuntu United Kingdom > > Local Community" > > * "Ubuntu REGION_NAME, COUNTRY_NAME Local Community". e.g. "Ubuntu > > Hampshire, United Kingdom Local Community" > > > > In addition the "team name" field should be standardized to:- > > > > "ubuntu-CC" (where CC is the agreed de-factor ISO country code of your > > country). e.g. ubuntu-uk > > "ubuntu-CC-Region" e.g. ubuntu-uk-hampshire > > > > The Country name and/or Region name should be specified either in > > English _or_ in the local language - at the preference of the team > > itself. > > If the whole point of the loco directory and this name change is to > make it easier for people to find their local team I would guess that > using the local language for the country name will be preferred by > most teams. > But mixing two languages in the same name gets... ugly. So I would > suggest that the "Local Community" part be stripped away. > > I agree. "Local Community" doesn't make sense outside the English speaking world. > Imagine you don't speak English and you are looking for the team > closest to you. Won't the gibberish behind your country name confuse > you? > > So, I would like to hear some good arguments for that requirement, or > suggest that the "Local Community" part of the name can be removed (or > translated as well) as the individual team would prefer. > > Cheers > Søren > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts >
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