Re: Proposal: DNS change irc.gnome.org becomes A record and irc.gimpnet.org starts getting phased out.

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 10:02 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> To many, 'gimp' is an offensive term an given our dedication to a11y
> it seems counter-intuitive to have this name in our infrastructure.

I've never heard the word "gimp" used as a slur against handicapped
people (which I guess is what you're getting at[1]). What made you think
that there was a connection between those 2 uses of the word?

Cheers

[1]: Rather than people who might need a11y technologies, which is
pretty much everyone (keyboard on touchscreen, text sizes, inverse
colours, etc.)