[RFC] LEP#1, Standardize the LoCo Team Display Names

[Leandro Gómez]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Søren Bredlund Caspersen <
soeren.b.c at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Paul Tagliamonte <paultag at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
> > Proposed-By: Paul Tagliamonte <paultag at ubuntu.com>;
> >  LoCo Council <loco-council at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Scope: All LoCo Teams, Worldwide
> > Status: Draft
> > Rational: loco.ubuntu.com looks inconsistent and sloppy
> >
> > Howdy, LoCo Contacts,
> >
> > The LoCo Council has drafted up a proposal to standardize the display
> > name of all LoCo teams to help un-uglyfy the LoCo Directory team
> > list[1].
> >
> > [1]: http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/
>
> SNIP
>
> > We have come up with a basic standardized format for team "display
> > name" on Launchpad, they should be in the following formats:-
> >  * "Ubuntu COUNTRY_NAME Local Community". e.g. "Ubuntu United Kingdom
> > Local Community"
> >  * "Ubuntu REGION_NAME, COUNTRY_NAME Local Community". e.g. "Ubuntu
> > Hampshire, United Kingdom Local Community"
> >
> > In addition the "team name" field should be standardized to:-
> >
> > "ubuntu-CC" (where CC is the agreed de-factor ISO country code of your
> > country). e.g. ubuntu-uk
> > "ubuntu-CC-Region" e.g. ubuntu-uk-hampshire
> >
> > The Country name and/or Region name should be specified either in
> > English _or_ in the local language - at the preference of the team
> > itself.
>
> If the whole point of the loco directory and this name change is to
> make it easier for people to find their local team I would guess that
> using the local language for the country name will be preferred by
> most teams.
> But mixing two languages in the same name gets... ugly. So I would
> suggest that the "Local Community" part be stripped away.
>
>
I agree. "Local Community" doesn't make sense outside the English speaking
world.


> Imagine you don't speak English and you are looking for the team
> closest to you. Won't the gibberish behind your country name confuse
> you?
>
> So, I would like to hear some good arguments for that requirement, or
> suggest that the "Local Community" part of the name can be removed (or
> translated as well) as the individual team would prefer.
>
> Cheers
> Søren
>
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