On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 21:43 -0700, C. Olofson wrote: > On 06/18/2011 11:28 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Marc Paré wrote on 2011-06-19 07.20: > >> I would tend to favour an acronym that will leave no guessing as to > >> which group one is emailing to. However, in this case I would favour > >> Carl's suggestion of "NorthAmerica.libreoffice.org" (yes, I know that > >> uppercase and lowercase do not matter ... I just did it for an effect). > >> This will make it completely obvious that we are talking of this region > >> of the globe to anyone who is not proficient in EN. It beats any acronym > >> that we could come up with. To be perfectly honest, whenever people > >> speak of "North America", they normally imagine the US market first and > >> foremost. So, in some regards, the change in name will still fill in the > >> mandate from the TDF/SC of concentrating on the US market. > > > > may I ask why you plan a name change at all? > I am assuming that 'US' actually referrs to the North American region. > If this is the case, 'US' excludes the other North American countries of > Canada & Mexico. By changing the naming convention, we're making > explicit that we are an inclusive community. > > If 'US' is solely for the US market then I withdraw my considerations. > > I still would object to it - it means a lot of work to rename the > > lists and the like, just for "optical" reasons, and we already had a > > lenghty discussion on the name before we came up with "us"... > What's an 'optical' reason? > >
Howdy all, Well, it seems to me that the action item I had from May was to explore how much work (or of a hassle) this would be. From Florian's responses I would say - a good bit. That and given the fact there really does not seem to be consensus on this at the moment I propose we table the idea till the next meeting. Right now there are other more pressing uses of our time and energies, IMO. Thanks, Drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
