[loco-contacts] Our teams reject the new LoCo Council policy

José Antonio Rey jose at ubuntu.com
Tue Oct 14 17:48:28 UTC 2014


And not only culture. It could be for any motives that are reasonable
enough (that's why categories may seem wide).

--
José Antonio Rey
On Oct 14, 2014 12:41 PM, "Michael Hall" <mhall119 at gmail.com> wrote:

> That is the intention, yes. If a specific culture within a country that
> for whatever reason they don't feel like they are a part of the parent
> country's community, they can ask the LC for an exception.
>
> Michael Hall
> mhall119 at gmail.com
>
> On 10/14/2014 01:35 PM, José Antonio Rey wrote:
> > You can make a request for what is currently considered a sub-team per
> > the policy.
> >
> > --
> > José Antonio Rey
> >
> > On Oct 14, 2014 12:34 PM, "Ming-ting Wei" <medicalwei at gmail.com
> > <mailto:medicalwei at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     To make a question clear, could it be an exception to make a
> >     culture-based LoCo instead of country-based one?
> >
> >     On Oct 15, 2014 1:28 AM, "marcoslans" <marcoslans at hotmail.com
> >     <mailto:marcoslans at hotmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >         We understand perfectly the meanings of 'subordinate' and all of
> >         them
> >         are not acceptable for most of us. So this point should be
> >         removed and
> >         volunteers will being respected.
> >
> >         On 14/10/14 11:29, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> >         >
> >         > On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Ubuntu-ast
> >         <admin at ubuntu-ast.org <mailto:admin at ubuntu-ast.org>
> >         > <mailto:admin at ubuntu-ast.org <mailto:admin at ubuntu-ast.org>>>
> >         wrote:
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >     This new politic has been thought regardless of cultures
> and
> >         >     languages of possible regions on the countries, we
> >         consider this
> >         >     extent against Ubuntu philosophy, where from the beginning
> >         cultural
> >         >     and linguistic richness were promoted. As for translation
> >         teams,
> >         >     always related to their LoCos, this compulsive
> >         subordination is
> >         >     offensive for Galician, Basque, Catalan and Asturian
> >         translators and
> >         >     could carry abandoning some language translations.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > I am an outsider to all this. I think that the source of the
> >         problem is
> >         > your phrase "this compulsive subordination is offensive
> for...".
> >         > In Spanish, sabordinar
> >         > is http://www.wordreference.com/definicion/subordinar and I
> >         can feel how
> >         > it might be offensive to you.
> >         > I think the problem is that the real translation of
> >         'subordinate' into
> >         > Spanish is something else that 'sabordinado', etc.
> >         > I do not know enough Spanish to offer the correct translation.
> >         > You got caught into this translation error and it has caused
> >         so much
> >         > grief in the rest of the thread.
> >         >
> >         > In English, "subordinate" is just a word to show the type of
> >         association
> >         > between groups.
> >         > Make your 'Asturian team within the Spanish LoCo ombrella',
> >         and then see
> >         > how you can make the next step for LoCo status.
> >         >
> >         > Simos
> >         >
> >         >
> >
> >           * Inglés - detectado
> >           * Galego
> >           * Castelán
> >
> >           * Galego
> >           * Castelán
> >
> >          <javascript:void(0);>
> >
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