[Please CC me in reply] On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Luca Capello wrote:
> Please keep the events@d.o address in the loop. Doing so. > In the first case, I do not think that we should enforce any policy > about how to define the name for a specific event. This because it is > up to the organizers of the event to decide its name. Agreed. > In the second case, AFAIK the current policy is "CITY, COUNTRY" and it > has been like this for the events since 1999, with some exceptions like > "PHYSICAL_LOCATION, CITY, COUNTRY" (with PHYSICAL_LOCATION being the > building or the institution) or "CITY, STATE, COUNTRY" (especially true > for some USA locations). I would like as much specificity as possible in the location information, possibly even including GPS co-ordinates of the reception/start point and or a link to OpenStreetMap or the map provided by the event organisers if any exists. > I would enforce the policy defining the location as "CITY [(STATE)], > COUNTRY", for the very simple reason that the PHYSICAL_LOCATION is not > always well defined (e.g. a university is not a building). STATE is not > mandatory, but if present it should be in parenthesis. If it should be > abbreviated (my preference) or not is another point that should be > defined. State abbreviation should be fine IMO. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6G-VCWd8WtMYe=-wkfaj5h7opq-kwefvccsb7of+vk...@mail.gmail.com
