[SAC] Re: [Webcom] OSGeo and internet domains

[Lorenzo Becchi]

Right Jorge, your opinion is sane.
:-)


Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote:
> 2007/10/12, Lorenzo Becchi <lorenzo at ominiverdi.com>:
>   
>> the idea, if  I've understood, was to redirect from osgeo.es and other
>> regional extension to osgeo.org
>>
>> but your idea could be good to have direct language choice.
>> es: spanish.osgeo.org ->
>> http://www.osgeo.org/switchuilocale/es?destination=bienvenido
>> or something like that....
>> than www.osgeo.es could redirect to spanish.osgeo.org
>>
>> does it make sense?
>>
>>
>>     
>
> IMHO, it doesn't make sense because I think we are not going to get
> all the .mx .cl .co .ar and the rest of Spanish spoken countries.
>
> Maybe at this time in the Spanish LC, Spaniards are the majority but I
> hope we will count with more and more people from SouthAmerica. And I
> expect that LC name is not confusing them...
>
> I wonder why all the people say "Spanish" for the language and in
> Spain we say "Castellano", not "Español" for our language. It's like
> the "Free" ambiguity in English... OK, forget me :P
>