Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-summit (64 mails)

[Shayon Mukherjee <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 4, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Athanasios-Ilias Rousinopoulos <zoumpis@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> Hello Summit-Geekos!
>
> Well it's too dificult to find the appropiate flag but instead of this
> i suggest using this term
>
> " Espanol (Castellano/Latino) "
>
> In order to "cover" all the spanish-spoken countries.
>
> As for Catalan , Euskadi and Gallego these are not a language but a
> dialect which are spoken only in some "states" of Spain.

Well not sure if I want to have that long name in the navigation area :). And I 
very much agree with jos too, people should care more about event that politics 
:).

Really appreciate all the comments. But may be this part can go somewhere on 
the ed version of the site, in case we need to be a bit informative about the 
languages and stuff :).

> 2012/4/4 Shayon Mukherjee <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Apr 4, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Jos Poortvliet <jos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wednesday 04 April 2012 12:08:04 Shayon Mukherjee wrote:
> > > > On Apr 4, 2012, at 9:12 AM, Bryen M Yunashko <suserocks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 12:23 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > > > > > On Tuesday 03 April 2012 22:52:54 Shayon Mukherjee wrote:
> > > > > > > Hello Ppl,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I am wondering what flags should we be using for Es and En on the
> > > > > > > website? Its for the links to the respective language / site  content.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Just pick what's included in the distro - there are flags in
> > > > > > /usr/share/locale/l10n/
> > > > > >
> > > > > > :D
> > > > > > :
> > > > > > > Thanks
> > > > >
> > > > > I think Shayon is trying to come up with a "politically-correct"
> > > > > solution.  In general, the obvious flag to use for "Spanish" is Spain.
> > > > > But our particular target here is Latin America, or more specifically,
> > > > > Central America.  So, Spain would  not be a good flag in this case, yet
> > > > > there's several countries, so picking one might offend another.  :-)
> > > > >
> > > > > So, Shayon's aim is to pick a flag (or some other icon) that is not
> > > > > country-specific or potentially offensive.
> > > >
> > > > Yep exactly :) . Thanks Bryen !
> > >
> > > I actually got that and would suggest to go with the flag we've picked for
> > > the spanish language... 'cuz that's been thought of already. We call the
> > > language 'spanish' too, right, despite the equally politically-incorrect
> > > 'spain' in there :D
> > >
> > > Go to YaST's language settings. There's no 'Mexican' language. There's
> > > Catalan and that other language in Spain but they gave those Spanish flags
> > > too... So I think we should go for the Spanish flag, or if you really think
> > > ppl won't like it, go for the letters ES. Doesn't make much difference
> > > (stands for 'espana', right?) but might make some feel better :S
> > >
> > > It's indeed not correct - the majority of spanish is spoken outside of
> > > Spain. But it's reality that we call the language 'spanish', shorten it with
> > > "es" and use a Spanish flag as easiest way of showing what language we're
> > > talkin' about.
> > >
> > > I hope ppl will care about the event, not politics.
> > >
> > > And we should take a clue from KDE, something I was recently reminded off:
> > > "Always assume people mean well". Should be our philosophy, too - perfect
> > > when dealing with different cultures etc :D
> >
> > Okay. Well in that case, i will go with the Spanish flag as you mentioned 
> > above.
> > Thanks jos :).
> >
> > Btw a quick update, I have asked to submit the summit site to the piwik 
> > instance and all the caching has been taken care off as well.
> >
> > > > /S
> > > >
> > > > > Bryen
> >
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