Re: [libreoffice-marketing] list name for the US group

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Bernhard Dippold <
bernhard@familie-dippold.at> wrote:

> Hi Jonathon, all,
>
> jonathon schrieb:
>
>  On 10/12/2010 07:39 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote:
> >  Trying to get some structure in, so any advice welcome.
> > >
> >
> > ISO 639-3 language code, then .libreoffice.org:  These are used for
> > localization projects.
> >
> > ISO 3166-2 country code, then .then libreoffice.org: These are used for
> > marketing projects.
>
> I don't know much about ISO codes, so this question might be silly. But I'm
> quite sure that most of our users and contributors don't know either.
>
> So I don't think it to be appropriate to differ between marketing and
> localization only by different ISO codes.
>
> And probably there are similar codes for some areas: Assuming that DE is as
> well language and country code, I would not know if discuss@de.libO is a
> marketing or localization list.
>
> Coming from the OOo project, I'd like to keep the discuss lists language
> based (with language ISO code), while marketing lists should use the the
> country code.

I am not sure it makes sense to split marketing efforts between countries.
Is much better to have separation between languages instead.



> So I'd modify your examples to:
>
>
> > discuss@nz.libreoffice.org would discuss marketing in New Zealand.
> marketing@nz.libreoffice.org
>
>
>  discuss@mri.libreoffice.org would discuss Māori localization issues.
> >
> stays the same
>
>
> > discuss@glv.libreoffice.org would discuss Manx localization issues.
> stays the same
>
>
>  discuss@im.libreoffice.org would discuss marketing in the Isle of Manx.
> >
> marketing@im.libreoffice.org
>
> This would lead to
>
> marketing@us.libreoffice.org
> for the US localized group, while general language dependent discussions
> would be stay on discuss@libreoffice.org (perhaps we should think about
> replacing it by discuss@en.libreoffice.org)
>
> As I don't see much benefit from local marketing actions for the entire
> North American continent, I'd rather stick with names easily understandable.
> General marketing discussions should stay here of course.
>
> Best regards
>
> Bernhard
>
> Best regards
>
> Bernhard
>
>
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