Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 19 June 2010 13:34:03 Per Jessen wrote:
> Rajko M. wrote:
> ...
> > The recognition of cultural and economic diversity will influence how
> > we create and distribute openSUSE:
> ...
> Your ideas are not bad, they're not just about cultural diversity.  I'd
> like to discuss them, but this isn't the right thread. 

The list was created with some Asian and African countries in mind where we 
have to address both ** cultural and economic ** diversity.

I jumped on practical questions without explaining background. 

==Default desktops are heavy for older hardware==
LXDE inclusion is partially addressing economic issues, giving light and 
supported desktop. 

==Artwork judgment can be a problem==
We can label "don't like" something that is too colorful for our taste and 
some other people can find our too simple, not exciting enough. There is a big 
difference in perception what is modest, or tasteful, in various cultures. 

There is also implicit discrimination when we give comments on another distro 
artwork. In particular commenting on Ubuntu selection of colors, or 
associating such colors with some ugly items, is indirect discrimination 
against people that would like that colors in openSUSE. 

==Expressing ideas in a written form==
Is also subject that can lead to unintentional discrimination. 
We are used to language difficulties, but that is not only difference between 
people. Majority on northern hemisphere doesn't like too many exclamation 
marks and some new users can get disgruntled comments about them, without dong 
anything wrong for their local environment. 

Listing and addressing such issues is priority if we want to have the same 
appeal to different world regions. 

-- 
Regards Rajko,
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