On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 11:55 -0400, Karen Sandler wrote:
On Fri, May 10, 2013 10:55 am, Bastien Nocera wrote: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?To chime in here as another US-based native english speaker, I've come across the negative reaction more than once in the past when telling people to join us "on GIMPNet" and also when talking to newcomers about what other awesome free software is available for them to use. It's a connection that I think people naturally make, as the word is a well known slur. Since for GNOME it's out of context to anyone who doesn't know about the GIMP and the historical relationship with GNOME, I think it can make people unnecessarily uncomfortable.
irc.gnome.org exists for a *very* long time ago. This is how I use it and how I advertise it. It seems to me that you should do the same. I am afraid that changing irc.gnome.org from CNAME to an A record is not going to change social customs. If we want to change social customs, we do not really need an A record for that, I bet most people are not going to run "dig irc.gnome.org" to see how it is resolved. It is up to us (call it a campaign or goal to update web/wiki pages where we advertise IRC). -- Germán Poo-Caamaño http://calcifer.org/
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