On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 22:49, Oliver Burger <[email protected]>wrote:
> Margot <[email protected]> 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
