[om-council] Motto/Slogan
Kate Lebedeff
kate at lebedeff.co.uk
Wed Apr 27 07:22:32 EDT 2016
If I see it right, this email was unfairly forgotten:)
Just couple of comments
- I do not have anything against current motto.
And though Colin’s judgement on any linguistic issues is undeniable, 98% of our audience are not native english speakers and will not see the nuances.
Probably we wish to be perfect anyway.
So no judgement from my side.
Probably indeed a vote can help..
- Other motto Q.
Probably it is time to refresh. We could think of something short and strong, what then should _always_ stand next to the name
To give you an example: “LG. Life is good”.
Here it is kind of abbreviation, but it does not have to be one.
Example:
“OpenMandriva. Cooking the innovations for you”.
(btw, if we ever finally decide to rebrand, one can later take away the name and leave motto - so it stays recognizable but refreshed. But that we leave to possible future for now..)
Given the fresh website and so many new things we have, probably worth to look into new motto: not because current is bad or whatever, but to make it fresh, short, easy to repeat and recognize. We could make use of that
?
Cheers
> On 18Mar, 2016, at 01:28, rugyada <rugyada at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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