Call for help! 'U' Release name Mandarin speakers
Hello folks, Now that we know when and where the 'U' summit will be[1] we can pick the name for the U release. I'm happy to act as coordinator but given the location I'd really like a native speaker (or 2) to help with assessing the names against the criteria, defining the geographic region and translating the civs POLL when we get there.
Yours Tony.
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On Feb 13, 2019, at 9:18 PM, Tony Breeds tony@bakeyournoodle.com wrote:
Hello folks, Now that we know when and where the 'U' summit will be[1] we can pick the name for the U release. I'm happy to act as coordinator but given the location I'd really like a native speaker (or 2) to help with assessing the names against the criteria, defining the geographic region and translating the civs POLL when we get there.
Alex Xu and I reached out via WeChat to the OpenStack community there! I’m hoping we can recruit someone :)
Yours Tony.
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On Feb 13, 2019, at 9:18 PM, Tony Breeds tony@bakeyournoodle.com wrote:
Hello folks, Now that we know when and where the 'U' summit will be[1] we can pick the name for the U release. I'm happy to act as coordinator but given the location I'd really like a native speaker (or 2) to help with assessing the names against the criteria, defining the geographic region and translating the civs POLL when we get there.
So: chatting with some folks from China and we’ve got the interesting problem that Pinyin does not have a U!
http://xh.5156edu.com/pinyi.php
I will leave it for some of the locals who mentioned that they can clarify more about that :)
Yours Tony.
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:09:35PM -0500, Mohammed Naser wrote:
So: chatting with some folks from China and we’ve got the interesting problem that Pinyin does not have a U!
I admit this doesn't surprise me.
I will leave it for some of the locals who mentioned that they can clarify more about that :)
Yup, if there isn't anything that naturally fits with the establish criteria we'd just have a number of items that are 'exceptional' and get TC endorsement for similar to https://review.openstack.org/#/c/611511/
Yours Tony.
Thanks, Mohanmmed.
In Chinese Pinyin, there are not any words starting with i, u, or v. :-(
Regarding U, the pronunciation is /u:/ in English, but it has to use together with w, like wu. There are several alternatives. 1. use some words having the pronunciation /u:/, like Wu Zhen[1], a very beautiful town close to Shanghai. 2. use some words starting with U, but not really Chinese, like Urumqi, Ulanhot, which are city names in China.
[1] https://goo.gl/maps/r6sipo1bkjn
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:18 AM Tony Breeds tony@bakeyournoodle.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:09:35PM -0500, Mohammed Naser wrote:
So: chatting with some folks from China and we’ve got the interesting
problem that Pinyin does not have a U!
I admit this doesn't surprise me.
I will leave it for some of the locals who mentioned that they can
clarify more about that :)
Yup, if there isn't anything that naturally fits with the establish criteria we'd just have a number of items that are 'exceptional' and get TC endorsement for similar to https://review.openstack.org/#/c/611511/
Yours Tony.
Yes, we do not have word start with U but we have alot of cities or sites start with U in english, mostly in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Xizang, I guess we can find something suitable.
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:21 AM Tony Breeds tony@bakeyournoodle.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:09:35PM -0500, Mohammed Naser wrote:
So: chatting with some folks from China and we’ve got the interesting
problem that Pinyin does not have a U!
I admit this doesn't surprise me.
I will leave it for some of the locals who mentioned that they can
clarify more about that :)
Yup, if there isn't anything that naturally fits with the establish criteria we'd just have a number of items that are 'exceptional' and get TC endorsement for similar to https://review.openstack.org/#/c/611511/
Yours Tony.
Zhenyu Zheng wrote:
Yes, we do not have word start with U but we have alot of cities or sites start with U in english, mostly in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Xizang, I guess we can find something suitable.
A few possibilities: http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/a/U/
Or maybe not a city, "Ussuri" river , 乌苏里江 in Chinese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussuri_River
Regards, Liping Mao
在 2019/2/14 17:12，“Thierry Carrez”thierry@openstack.org 写入:
Zhenyu Zheng wrote: > Yes, we do not have word start with U but we have alot of cities or > sites start with U in english, mostly in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and > Xizang, I guess we can find something suitable.
A few possibilities: http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/a/U/
-- Thierry Carrez (ttx)
This now seems interesting. There is no Standard Chinese Pinyin starts with 'U'. So I have a suggestion, because we have 'Wu', 'Lu', 'Hu', 'Nu', 'Yu' and so on. How about we give the OpenStack version name with the letters order of rotation? For instance, we can use 'Uw', 'Uy' to represent the Standard Pinyin. Then we will have a lot of choices. Such as 'Uwzhen' for 乌镇，'Uyxi' for 玉溪, 'Uylin' for 玉林， 'Uhbei' for 湖北，yeah, yeah, we have a lot of choices.
Thanks,
LIU Yulong
------------------ Original ------------------ From: "Tony Breeds"tony@bakeyournoodle.com; Date: Thu, Feb 14, 2019 11:14 AM To: "Mohammed Naser"mnaser@vexxhost.com; Cc: "OpenStack Discuss"openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org; Subject: Re: Call for help! 'U' Release name Mandarin speakers
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:09:35PM -0500, Mohammed Naser wrote:
So: chatting with some folks from China and we’ve got the interesting problem that Pinyin does not have a U!
I admit this doesn't surprise me.
I will leave it for some of the locals who mentioned that they can clarify more about that :)
Yup, if there isn't anything that naturally fits with the establish criteria we'd just have a number of items that are 'exceptional' and get TC endorsement for similar to https://review.openstack.org/#/c/611511/
Yours Tony.
On 2019-02-13 22:09:35 -0500 (-0500), Mohammed Naser wrote: [...]
So: chatting with some folks from China and we’ve got the interesting problem that Pinyin does not have a U!
[...]
Those with keen memories might recall we had the exact same problem when needing to come up with a name for our "I" release corresponding to the Hong Kong summit, and eventually settled on a local street which had an English name (Ice House Street). We wanted a Chinese place name, but as noted there were none in Pinyin starting with an "I" vowel.
Tony Breeds wrote, back in February:
Now that we know when and where the 'U' summit will be[1] we canpick the name for the U release. I'm happy to act as coordinator but given the location I'd really like a native speaker (or 2) to help with assessing the names against the criteria, defining the geographic region and translating the civs POLL when we get there.
Yours Tony.
Now that we are in the Train (that name just keeps on giving) there is more pressure to name 'U'...
Do we have people from China interested in helping with that process ?
As a reminder, the rules are described at: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/release-naming.html
I am a native mandarin speaker. I'm happy to work with Tony in this process.
Eric Kao
On 4/19/19, 2:25 AM, "Thierry Carrez" thierry@openstack.org wrote:
Tony Breeds wrote, back in February:
Now that we know when and where the 'U' summit will be[1] we canpick the name for the U release. I'm happy to act as coordinator but given the location I'd really like a native speaker (or 2) to help with assessing the names against the criteria, defining the geographic region and translating the civs POLL when we get there.
Yours Tony.
Now that we are in the Train (that name just keeps on giving) there is more pressure to name 'U'...
Do we have people from China interested in helping with that process ?
As a reminder, the rules are described at: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/release-naming.html
-- Thierry Carrez (ttx)
On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 4:53 PM Tony Breeds tony@bakeyournoodle.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 01:40:34PM -0700, Eric K wrote:
I am a native mandarin speaker. I'm happy to work with Tony in this process.
Great! Are you going to be in Denver? If so lets start the ball rolling while we're there
Yours Tony.
Great! I'll be there.
participants (9)
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Eric K
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Fred Li
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Jeremy Stanley
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Liping Mao (limao)
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LIU Yulong
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Mohammed Naser
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Thierry Carrez
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Tony Breeds
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Zhenyu Zheng