[okfn-help] Translation of "We are OKF Finland" in Finnish?

Thu Nov 17 16:21:17 UTC 2011

I prefer it being "We are ____" (insert country name) for the design to
look best, which is why I did it that way.

I think having the top part in the nation's language and the bottom part in
English works too.

Kat

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> (cc'ing okfn-help so others can join the discussion)
>
> Amazing - thanks!
>
> What about "Me olemme OKF Suomi" and then "a local chapter of the Open
> Knowledge Foundation"? ;-)
>
> J.
>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Jussi Nissilä
> <jussi.nissila at finnish-institute.org.uk> wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > "We are Finland" would translate literally to "Me olemme Suomi" and "We
> are
> > OKF Finland" to "Me olemme OKF Suomi".
> >
> > However at the same time I have to say that we were talking about the
> > language issue and we couldn't decide if we'd like to have the
> communication
> > (and the site) in English or in Finnish, as the field of open knowledge
> is
> > quite international and we don't want to exclude people who don't know
> > English (and at the same time having Finnish as the language would lower
> the
> > barrier for the Finns to participate). This was something we intend to
> > discuss at the Meetup.
> >
> > Jussi
> >
> >
> > On 17/11/11 4:05 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> Wonder if one of you could send us a translation of "We are OKF
> >> Finland" in Finnish?
> >>
> >> It would be great to have this instead of "We are Finland" in English
> >> on the fi.okfn.org website. :-)
> >>
> >> What do you think?
> >>
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
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> The Open Knowledge Foundation
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>
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>

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