[Owncloud] Translation to German: 2 Questions

[Thomas Tanghus]

On Thursday 24 May 2012 00:34 Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> On 23.05.2012, at 21:26, Florian Rüchel <florian.ruechel at googlemail.com> > > 
The first being whether we should talk to people in the formal "Sie" or
> > the informal "Du" in German? As a third option one might consider two
> > languages but that might also be a bit too much.
> > For those of you not familiar with the distinction between the two
> > salutations: You would a address your friends with "Du" and your
> > business partners and strangers with "Sie", both meaning "you".
> > 
> > My personal opinion on that topic is "Du", since I would see the service
> > more targeted against private users (like in Dropbox) than business
> > customers, but I am aware of the "Company support" option so I would
> > like to have your opinion before I start translating the corresponding
> > strings.
> 
> Currently the translation is using "Du". Today I had a meeting with a big
> government organization in Germany than will use ownCloud in the future.
> They complained that we use "Du" So using "Sie" might be saver because it
> works for everybody.

So very German ;-)

> But this is open for discussion of course.

Or you could deliver customized translations?

-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards

Thomas Tanghus