[okfn-br] Translation of "We are OKF Brazil" in Portugese?

[Daniela B. Silva]

What's wrong about "Nós Somos o Brasil"? Like everybody else does?

I like it.

Dani
(who thinks that discussions over names and slogans should have a 30
seconds deadline :P)

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Kat Braybrooke <kat.braybrooke em okfn.org>wrote:

> Guys,
>
> I still prefer 'We Are ____' (country name) and then what I've done below
> on the other Local Chapter sites. It just looks much better design-wise...
>
> See here for examples:
>
> it.okfn.org
> fi.okfn.org
>
>
> I'd really rather keep it this way with Brasil too if we can so that
> things are standardised - it takes too much time to fiddle with these
> designs if they aren't all the same.
>
> Is this fine with you, Tom?
>
> Thanks :)
>
> Kat
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <
> everton137 em gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Em 18/11/2011 11:58, "Lucy Chambers" <lucy.chambers em okfn.org> escreveu:
>>
>> >
>> > Would an option be to drop the "We are" aspect?
>> >
>> > I agree that it looks really nice in English, but it will look & sound
>> > a bit weird in other languages (for example: Russian doesn't have a
>> > verb to be in the present tense...)
>> >
>> > What I would suggest is:
>> >
>> > Top left: OKFN-Country Name
>> > Bottom right: A chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation... (Not
>> > repeating but unpacking OKF)
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>>
>> I think it's a good suggestion. And when unpacking OKFn, as I said
>> before, it will be in the country language decided by the community.
>>
>> In Brazil we are still discussing the name and seeing if it's possible to
>> use the word "foundation" in the case, for instance, we are an
>> assossiantion.
>>
>> I was wondering about "We are [country]" name in Chinese and Arabic. ; )
>>
>> In Portuguese, as I said, it sounds weird, in my opinion.
>>
>> Tom
>>
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