On Sonntag, 8. Juni 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 080608 Chuanwen Wu wrote: > >> We try to translate the GMN to our local language, > >> but I found it was really hard to understand the section > >> of "Council Meeting Summary", for example: > >> "The appeals will *not* be decided then > >> -- it's about figuring out the validity and the process." > >> ----what "validity" and "process" is? > > > > "What we should be doing in all cases & how it would be best to do it, > > rather than deciding what to do about this particular person, > > who has been disciplined & has appealed to have his case reviewed" : > > it is poorly expressed & not clear even to a native speaker (wry smile). > > but I can't still see the relation between your reply and my question? > From the paragraph: > > Enforced retirement: After 2.5 hours on the previous topics, people > had to go to sleep and jokey's computer broke. Instead of waiting till > the next regular meeting, because of its urgency, we scheduled a > special session next week at the same time. The appeals will *not* be > decided then -- it's about figuring out the validity and the process. > > I know the meeting once stopped and was rescheduled, and then ?
It is all about 'how to deal with appeals' and 'are the appeals even valid' It got 'rescheduled' and then nothing happened, that is why we have elections of a new council soon . > > >> "105 minutes were closed and 57 were open" ----- what is "57"? > > > > Minutes : what else ?! > > You mean the new meeting continued 105 minutes and then 57 minutes again? no. That 105 minutes were 'closed' - only council members could speek. And 57 minutes were 'open' - everybody was allowed to speek. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
