[om-council] Motto/Slogan

rugyada rugyada at gmail.com
Thu Mar 17 20:28:16 EDT 2016


Hello,

Few words about the subject.

First of all please note I don't want to strongly defend current motto.
I rather may be a bit surprised that issues arose 2 years and more
later since we all agreed on it. Mainly by one only person, afaik :)
Long story short, for people not knowing the history, given that devs
are aka "cookers" it was imagined as a recipe: the basic ingredients
(community, passion, innovation) and the condiment (as in
wordreference http://www.wordreference.com/iten/condimento =
condiment, seasoning, spice, dressing, relish) or flavor
(http://www.wordreference.com/iten/insaporire = to season, to flavor)
- so to make it clear for all what's the meaning intended.

Arguments adduced against were (IIRC):
- It's ~childish. In fact Colin used another cultured word which I
definitely cannot remember not being native English, sorry for that.
In my opinion it's not ~childish. Sure it's not that kind of serious,
severe, boring corporate thing, but are we?
We want to have fun and enjoy ourselves, don't we?
- It's difficult to translate.
Sorry I never understood why the motto should be translated. We, as an
international community are using English language.
The first motto/slogan always comes to my mind is OpenSUSE "Have a lot
of fun!" I never read (unless I missed something) "Divertitevi!" or
"Amusez-vous bien!" as OpenSUSE motto local translation.

Finally, it's not written in stone. If anyone got a nice idea we can
make a loomio poll and ask the community. As for me, I have nothing,
nothing against at all.

Just one side note: motto is about us as Association/Community, it's
not about the product (OMLx or else).

Have a lot of fun! :P

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Best regards,
Cristina



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