[23:06] <wxl> Lubuntu is planning on adding some localized channels. I trust that's not something I need IRC Council permission about?
[23:10] <dax> wxl: correct. preferred channel naming would be #lubuntu-de, #lubuntu-es, etc. if there are existing channels that you need access in, feel free to poke one of us :)
[23:10] <wxl> dax: thanks, i saw that about the naming convention. what would i do for a channel targetted towards arabic?
[23:12] <dax> !arabic
[23:12] <dax> i guess something like that
[23:13] <wxl> ah there we go
[23:13] <dax> -ar is argentina, which i guess is why they spelled it out instead
[23:13] <wxl> makes sense to me
[23:13] <wxl> well yeah and arabic is very widely dispersed geographically
[23:13] <wxl> VERY widely
[23:13] <dax> yeah, exactly
[23:14] <dax> oh, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrcTeam/Coordination might be useful too
[23:14] <dax> (not the name list, that's largely out of date. the stuff above that, including the chanserv commands)
[23:15] <wxl> i was going to say the name list might prove useful :) but ok
[23:15] <tomreyn> ISO 639-1 for arabic would be ar indeed
[23:16] <dax> tomreyn: yeah, channels are named by country rather than language though, because they're theoretically run by LoCo teams
[23:16] <wxl> according to the docs, the #*ubuntu-YY format is supposed to use ccTLD conventions for YY
[23:16] <wxl> with exceptions for regions
[23:16] <dax> which is fine for e.g. -es, but get a bit weird sometimes
[23:16] <tomreyn> oh ok
[23:16] <dax> especially since there aren't exactly a lot of active LoCos any more
[23:17] <wxl> so just to confirm: Spanish -es Portuguese -pt Italian -it Russian -ru Japanese -jp French -fr Chinese -cn German -de
[23:17] <dax> sgtm
[23:17] <wxl> thanks again
[23:17] <dax> i think some of those exist already, so yeah, feel free to poke if you end up needing channel access to one
[23:18] <wxl> well since these are meant to be specific to lubuntu i don't think they do
[23:18] <wxl> it would be news to me!
[23:18] <dax> oh, i knew there was another document for this
[23:18] <dax> i meant https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/CreatingChannels not the Coordination link (though that one has useful info too)
[23:18] <wxl> yep i got that
[23:19] <dax> :)
[23:38] <wxl> so it seems someone already got #lubuntu-it?
[23:39] <wxl> also #lubuntu-fr
[23:42] <dax> looks like it. do you want me to get them transferred to you?
[23:42] <wxl> please and thank you
[23:50] <dax> wxl: both done
[23:50] <wxl> thanks!