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

2011-06-29 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Proposed-By: Paul Tagliamonte ; LoCo Council 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 Dire

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

2011-06-29 Thread Dmitry Agafonov
What about language-based loco teams? -- Dmitry Agafonov ~ http://agafonov.pp.ru/ -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

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

2011-06-29 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Hi, Dmitry, This will be the subject of an upcoming LEP / RFC Mail, let's just focus on "true" LoCos, first All the best, Paul On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Dmitry Agafonov wrote: > What about language-based loco teams? > > -- > Dmitry Agafonov ~ http://agafonov.pp.ru/ > > -- > loco-contacts

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

2011-06-29 Thread Alan Bell
interesting example to pick. The ISO country code for the United Kingdom is GB. We have an exceptional reservation on "UK" which means no new country can claim it, but the code is GB. On Freenode #ubuntu-gb redirects to #ubuntu-uk as I think xchat automatically joins #ubuntu-$countrycode I am

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

2011-06-29 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Alan Bell wrote: > interesting example to pick. > The ISO country code for the United Kingdom is GB. We have an exceptional > reservation on "UK" which means no new country can claim it, but the code is > GB. On Freenode #ubuntu-gb redirects to #ubuntu-uk as I thin

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

2011-06-29 Thread Dmitry Agafonov
> http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams isn't ideal for a number of reasons. My > expectation on clicking the map on the front page of loco.ubuntu.com is that > when I click europe it should take me to a larger map of Europe, then I > click my country and it takes me there. I never want to see the huge list

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

2011-06-29 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Alan Bell wrote: > http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams isn't ideal for a number of reasons. My > expectation on clicking the map on the front page of loco.ubuntu.com is that > when I click europe it should take me to a larger map of Europe, then I > click my country and i

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

2011-06-29 Thread Søren Bredlund Caspersen
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Proposed-By: Paul Tagliamonte ; >  LoCo Council > 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 stan

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

2011-06-29 Thread Charles Profitt
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 17:25 -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Proposed-By: Paul Tagliamonte ; > LoCo Council > 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 s

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

2011-06-29 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Alan Bell > wrote: >> http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams isn't ideal for a number of reasons. My >> expectation on clicking the map on the front page of loco.ubuntu.com is that >> when I click europe it should

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

2011-06-29 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
> First let me say that I fully support the development of a respectful > and logically consistent way to name LoCo teams. I am positive that as a > group we can arrive at such a solution. Given that I do see some issues > with the current suggestion put forth in the original email. Awesome. That'

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

2011-06-29 Thread Mark Cox
On 06/29/2011 09:01 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: First let me say that I fully support the development of a respectful and logically consistent way to name LoCo teams. I am positive that as a group we can arrive at such a solution. Given that I do see some issues with the current suggestion put fo

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

2011-06-29 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Currently we use something like: ubuntu-us-ny This is the state's namespace, so anything beyond this is "theirs", so: ubuntu-us-ny-ny would actually be OK :) Let's just worry about display names at the moment :) On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Mark Cox wrote: > On 06/29/2011 09:01 PM, Paul T

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

2011-06-29 Thread Charles Profitt
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 21:01 -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > First let me say that I fully support the development of a respectful > > and logically consistent way to name LoCo teams. I am positive that as a > > group we can arrive at such a solution. Given that I do see some issues > > with the

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

2011-06-29 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: >> I don't think another renaming effort is going to help all that much >> and it's terribly frustrating to teams who have put work into their >> branding (it's not just Ubuntu UK

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

2011-06-29 Thread Rich Johnson
Works for me! Ubuntu United States Illinois Chicago Local Community Team, I guess that will make it easier for dumb people to comprehend. To us here in Chicago, where Ubuntu Chicago matters, it will always be Ubuntu Chicago. --Rich "I could care less" Johnson -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-c

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

2011-06-29 Thread YoBoY
Hi, First, sorry to ask, but what is a "LEP" ? I don't understand why a LoCoDirectory display problem is making its way to give headaches to the loco teams. I am well aware of this display problem I have pointed it last year in august in my review of the loco directory, and I'll welcome every

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

2011-06-29 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:26 PM, YoBoY wrote: > A last thing, this naming convention is not a locoteam problem for me, it's > a loco directory problem. Stop trying to make the loco directory a front-end > of launchpad if you want to resolve this and let teams choose a "main > country" and an opti