On Thursday 25 May 2006 11:30, houghi wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 06:56:39PM +0100, Graham Anderson wrote:
> > Please keep this mailing list free for discussion about the openSUSE
> > project.
>
> Thanks for the mail, but I think we have to consider the naming. Nobody
> knows what the 'openSUSE project' is or at least it is in many ways
> interpretable.
>
> The openSUSE project could be SUSE Linux. It also could be making openSUSE
> beer or it could be (and is) the openSUSE community. When I see something
> that is called openSUSE project, I would also asume I could ask tecvhnical
> questions about SUSE, because most likely SUSE is the openSUSE project.
>
> If you have to explain things in a one-liner, the one-liner is not a real
> one-liner. ;-) My sugestion is to change 'openSUSE project' to 'openSUSE
> community' for the mailinglist description.
>
> People then realise it is about a community and not about something
> else. I know it is correct English what is written, it also is proen that
> people seem to interpret it differently.

Mmmmm I had a stack of email that suddenly made it's way onto the net & 
various mailing lists. I'm quite sure I sent this a few days ago :/

If they don't know what the openSUSE project is then they can visit 
openSUSE.org surely. If we can't call a project a project, what do we call 
it? the openSUSE !project?

'it' is the project, 'we' are the community. We are not discussing ourselves 
we are discussion it, the project. Consider; if they don't know what the 
openSUSE project is then they have definately posted to the wrong list.

Cheers the noo
Graham

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