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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