Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally inse nsitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Alejandro Barrera
On Friday 08 October 2010 20:02:10 Iván Chavero wrote: > If you care that much about the rights of american indians you should be > pleading for the return of the land to their rightfull owners (and since > you'll be doing that you sould plead also for the return of Texas, > California and Nuevo Mé

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Jędrzej Nowak
Vladimir sure... I have nothing against Russians or Germans :) As you said.. that's history. Greetings, Jędrzej Nowak On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Vladimir Smagin <2...@blindage.org> wrote: > we are not devils. just people like you. history is history. poland was > key to europe. now we all

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Vladimir Smagin
we are not devils. just people like you. history is history. poland was key to europe. now we all live in peace. On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 21:03 +0200, Jędrzej Nowak wrote: > What the hell are you taliking about? That's a LOGO of a project... > what the hell it has to the "murdered/force-relocated" pe

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Jędrzej Nowak
What the hell are you taliking about? That's a LOGO of a project... what the hell it has to the "murdered/force-relocated" peoples ? Mate... first think, then write. I'm from Poland. Yes this is country which was even removed from the world map (by Germans, and Russians mostly). http://en.wikipedia

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Zachary Krebs
I will be posting this thread elsewhere and let the greater FOSS world decide on this topic, because its clear that the community here is not open to the idea. Sincerely, Zachary Krebs Voice:(541) 708-1163 Skype: ZacharyKrebs On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Max Countryman wrote: > I would

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Max Countryman
I would like to second this. At this point it's become spam. The author of this post is effectively trolling by posting off-topic in what seems to be nothing more than an attempt to incite conflict. They ignore rebuttals and carry on with poorly construed pedantic platitudes. The only aim of whi

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Jędrzej Nowak
I generally don't get your allegations about Cherokee Server logo Zachary... It's completelly ridiculous for me... ++ for Ivan mail... Pozdrawiam Jędrzej Nowak On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Iván Chavero wrote: > > It's just a logo man!! > > I'm from México but i kind of familiarized with th

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Iván Chavero
I Totally agree El 08/10/10 12:04, "Péter, Donka" escribió: > Enough of this offtopic spam. You cant do better things but flood a > technical mailing list this foolish thing? Man.. this is awful! > > 2010.10.08. 19:39 keltezéssel, Zachary Krebs írta: >> Its not destructive to say that the brandi

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Péter, Donka
Enough of this offtopic spam. You cant do better things but flood a technical mailing list this foolish thing? Man.. this is awful! 2010.10.08. 19:39 keltezéssel, Zachary Krebs írta: Its not destructive to say that the branding of a particular GOOD product is culturally insensitive. If all you

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Zachary Krebs
That is a good point, I will consider a patch or consider donating to someone to make a logo redesign. Sincerely, Zachary Krebs Voice:(541) 708-1163 Skype: ZacharyKrebs On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Iván Chavero wrote: > > It's just a logo man!! > > I'm from México but i kind of familiar

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Iván Chavero
It's just a logo man!! I'm from México but i kind of familiarized with the pollitical correctness that some part of the US citizens practice. It is good in a sense, but sometimes it just goes too far. Your mail looks like if it was taken out from a joke from a cherokee stand up comedian. It's so

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Max Countryman
Sorry, you can't ask us to 'forgo logic' for you. It's also not a method by which you can dismiss what has already been said here apropos the contentions you've made; you can't ignore our points and then move to claim we're silencing the issue. On the contrary, multiple threads of discussion hav

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Italo Maia
*I can see that there is very little receptivity around this topic. That is fine. I would suggest that instead of using your brain like a hammer to approach every issue, consider how this might feel to someone.* Consider how i feel reading you write what you're writting...Much pain!!! *As we have

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Zachary Krebs
Its not destructive to say that the branding of a particular GOOD product is culturally insensitive. If all you care about is the code, and how the product works, then why is this such a big issue that can not be reflected on? Instead of silencing the issue, we should review it and see if there is

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Jim Isaacs
Action without defense is the complete lack of confidence. --- Jim Isaacs On Oct 8, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Zachary Krebs wrote: > I can see that there is very little receptivity around this topic. That is > fine. I would suggest that instead of using your brain like a hammer to > app

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Max Countryman
I would strongly suggest you concentrate your efforts on constructive rather than destructive activities. Had the Cherokee Webserver Project made claims about the cultural identity of the Cherokee People I think you would have some ground to stand on. But they don't, never have, and most likely

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Zachary Krebs
I can see that there is very little receptivity around this topic. That is fine. I would suggest that instead of using your brain like a hammer to approach every issue, consider how this might* feel *to someone. As we have also learned, the mind is not the only source of intelligence. Looking at th

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Vladimir Smagin
It is ridiculous On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 09:06 -0700, Zachary Krebs wrote: > Please consider removing it or changing it. For some context, there is > a huge dispute in N. America about people using Native American > symbols/logos/caricatures in popular culture to demean or otherwise > insinuate that

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Max Countryman
I think your accusations are a bit of a red herring: As we have well learned by now, a symbol is not the object it represents. However you're attempting to assert the representation is the object and is therefore objectionable, this is a logical fallacy. If you care about the history of native

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Op 08-10-10 18:28, Jim Isaacs schreef: > This 'dispute' has been going on for over 20+ years, and has gone > basically nowhere. I totally agree, on the IRC channel we had a native Cherokee guy this summer. He was lost, but I invited him over in our

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Tony Zakula
Well said! I couldn't agree more. TonyZ On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Jim Isaacs wrote: > This 'dispute' has been going on for over 20+ years, and has gone basically > nowhere. > > Calling a sports team the Indians is no different than calling them the > Fighting Irish, the Buccaneers, the

Re: [Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Jim Isaacs
This 'dispute' has been going on for over 20+ years, and has gone basically nowhere. Calling a sports team the Indians is no different than calling them the Fighting Irish, the Buccaneers, the Steelers, Deamon Deacons, Boiler Makers, Musketeers, etc... If anything being a mascot for something

[Cherokee] Your logo is extremely culturally insensitive to American Indigenous Peoples

2010-10-08 Thread Zachary Krebs
Please consider removing it or changing it. For some context, there is a huge dispute in N. America about people using Native American symbols/logos/caricatures in popular culture to demean or otherwise insinuate that indigenous people are fast, quirky, half-witted, lesser-than, etc. The entire ide

Re: [Cherokee] One Love.

2010-10-08 Thread Alvaro Lopez Ortega
On 08/10/2010, at 21:32, Jim Isaacs wrote: > Thank you very much to all who have contributed. > Now I am recommending Cherokee every chance I get. Thank YOU so much for these kind words. We do appreciate it!! - I believe I speak for everybody who's involved on the project. :-) -- Octality http:

[Cherokee] One Love.

2010-10-08 Thread Jim Isaacs
To the Rockstars, You know who you are. I'm sorry if I'm clogging up the email lists or anything of that sort. But I just have to share how much I love Cherokee. Some of you might remember me from the lists when I was was researching light weight webservers and was undecided as to which one to g

Re: [Cherokee] mix static content handlers for different filesystem paths in same virtual server?

2010-10-08 Thread Taher Shihadeh
On 07/10/10 13:59, David Taylor wrote: I have a virtual server: [...] I already have static content handlers as full paths: [...] Served from document root /var/www/www.example.com. I need to add static content handlers for the Django application's CSS, images, etc, preferably as a directo