Idea for Newsletter

[Louise McCance-Price]

Hi all

Alexander Poslavsky wrote:

>On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 22:10:49 -0500, John Hornbeck
><hornbeck at freeshell.org> wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 22:48 -0400, Kevin Mulligan wrote:
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>>>Today I thought of the possibility of having a 'tips and tricks' type
>>>newsletter, or something to that effect, that would share with users how
>>>to do some neat things (I'll let you all fill in what those are ;).
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>>>Anyways, I was thinking the name could be "You-buntu" ... a play on
>>>letters with Ubuntu... U = You... You -- Buntu.
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>>>Terrible? :)
>>>
>>>--Kevin
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>Sounds nice, You-buntu as name for something like a
>newsletter/magazine. Just check it with upstream so that it is not
>copyrighted or has some horrible meaning like You-dirty-stinking
>something. 'Ubuntu' is an existing african word, 'buntu' might be as
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Bantu is not a word that we use anymore in Southern Africa - as in the 
Apartheid era
it became a non-PC word.

My suggestion is that we leave "Ubuntu" untouched and have something 
like Ubuntu Mag
or something funkier.

best
Lu



>well, how do we know, you know. :)
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>greets , AP
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