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

Thu Nov 17 16:30:11 UTC 2011

Okay, tried it like this. I think it looks good :) Thoughts?

http://fi.okfn.org/

Kat
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2011/11/17 Kat Braybrooke <kat.braybrooke at okfn.org>

> 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?
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
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