On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 22:59:02 +0200 Oliver Burger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Frederic Janssens <[email protected]> schrieb am 2010-10-03 > > On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 22:49, Oliver Burger > <[email protected]>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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **Otford Ducks Computers** We teach, you learn... ...and, if you don't do your homework, we set the cat on you! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
