[Owncloud] Translation to German: 2 Questions

[Florian Rüchel]

Okay thank you all for your feedback. I will translate it with "Du" and
we then later have the option to translate it with "Sie" if we want to
ship a corporate version.

On 24.05.2012 10:35, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote:
> The standards for Gnome (& Ubuntu) and KDE are the »Sie« form. I find
> it very important to have the more friendly »Du« form though. Since
> there are not a lot of strings with the specific form anyway, I would
> say we keep the community edition »Du« as it is, and ship the company
> version with »Sie«.
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Thomas Tanghus <thomas at tanghus.net> wrote:
>> 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
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