[okfn-help] Translation of "We are OKF Finland" in Finnish?
Jonathan Gray
jonathan.gray at okfn.org
Thu Nov 17 16:31:19 UTC 2011
Beautiful.
2011/11/17 Kat Braybrooke <kat.braybrooke at okfn.org>:
> 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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>>> Jonathan Gray
>>>
>>> Community Coordinator
>>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>>> http://www.okfn.org
>>>
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