Re: [us-marketing] Changind the URL for this mailing list from US to NA

On 06/18/2011 11:28 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Marc Paré wrote on 2011-06-19 07.20:
> > I would tend to favour an acronym that will leave no guessing as to
> > which group one is emailing to. However, in this case I would favour
> > Carl's suggestion of "NorthAmerica.libreoffice.org" (yes, I know that
> > uppercase and lowercase do not matter ... I just did it for an effect).
> > This will make it completely obvious that we are talking of this region
> > of the globe to anyone who is not proficient in EN. It beats any acronym
> > that we could come up with. To be perfectly honest, whenever people
> > speak of "North America", they normally imagine the US market first and
> > foremost. So, in some regards, the change in name will still fill in the
> > mandate from the TDF/SC of concentrating on the US market.
>
> may I ask why you plan a name change at all?
I am assuming that 'US' actually referrs to the North American region.  
If this is the case, 'US' excludes the other North American countries of 
Canada & Mexico.  By changing the naming convention, we're making 
explicit that we are an inclusive community.

If 'US' is solely for the US market then I withdraw my considerations.
> I still would object to it - it means a lot of work to rename the 
> lists and the like, just for "optical" reasons, and we already had a 
> lenghty discussion on the name before we came up with "us"...
What's an 'optical' reason?
> Florian
Thanks,
-Craig

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