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[Cassidy James <cassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As Dan said, we've already promised CDs this cycle. In addition, yes, that
forces us to be disciplined about image size. But the main issue is that
we've already promised CDs. ;)
On Sep 24, 2012 9:11 AM, "satchitb@xxxxxxxxx" <satchitb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think CDs are obsolete technology. Even here in India, CDs are slowly
> being phased out as the price of USB drives drops daily. USB drives are
> reusable, install and run OSes faster and, as Chris Triantafillis points
> out, are less harmful to the environment.
>
> If elementary is trying to be disciplined about the image size (as Ubuntu
> is), then I respect that. But there's no need to adhere to such an ancient
> and restrictive limit.
>
> On 24 September 2012 19:35, Chris Triantafillis <christriant1995@xxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
>> My opinion is that we should increase the size limit and encourage people
>> use USB rather than CD...
>> CD is harmfull for the enviroment too...
>>
>>
>> 2012/9/24 Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> Alrighty, well if we think it'll fit, I'm down with adding more
>>> languages.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Daniel Foré
>>>
>>> El sep 23, 2012, a las 10:50 p.m., Eduard Gotwig <eduardgotwig@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> escribió:
>>>
>>> Daniel Fore:
>>>
>>> The stuff gets compressed with squashfs to like 1/3 of the original
>>> size.That means around 46/47 MB.
>>>
>>> 2012/9/23 Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>> Currently we want to fit on a CD, so 700MB
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Daniel Foré
>>>>
>>>> El sep 23, 2012, a las 12:32 p.m., Chris Triantafillis <
>>>> christriant1995@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:
>>>>
>>>>  What is the size limit?
>>>>
>>>> 2012/9/23 Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>>> Sounds like we really don't have room for that. We have room for 50
>>>>> more MB. So maybe we can choose like 3?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>> Daniel Foré
>>>>>
>>>>> El sep 23, 2012, a las 12:25 p.m., Eduard Gotwig <
>>>>> eduardgotwig@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:
>>>>>
>>>>> I included here Russian as well, couse its used quite often:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 140 MB are going to be used after this operation by apt-get : sudo
>>>>>> apt-get --no-install-recommends --download-only install
>>>>>> language-pack-gnome-pl  language-pack-gnome-es language-pack-gnome-it
>>>>>> language-pack-gnome-ru language-pack-gnome-nl language-pack-gnome-fr
>>>>>> language-pack-gnome-pt language-pack-gnome-de language-pack-gnome-en
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When someone wants to test that, go for it and include it in your
>>>>>> custom build with congrego ;)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2012/9/23 Craig <weberc2@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think American English is pretty standard in computing, even
>>>>>>> internationally. Not that it will be a serious impediment d either way.
>>>>>>> On Sep 23, 2012 1:28 PM, "David Gomes" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> First of all, English and Portuguese will be a problem. How can we
>>>>>>>> decide which "version" of English and Portuguese to include? Sure,
>>>>>>>> Portuguese is one of the most spoken languages in the world, but it's not
>>>>>>>> because of the roughly 10 million inhabitants of Portugal, it's more due to
>>>>>>>> the 200 million inhabitants of Brazil. So, we'd probably include Brazillian
>>>>>>>> Portuguese.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> But English would be harder. There are more Americans than British,
>>>>>>>> but a lot of people are anti-American English or so.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The whole move of including 8 languages. I'm not sure, I'd like to
>>>>>>>> know how much space that is.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> David "Munchor" Gomes
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Eduard Gotwig <
>>>>>>>> eduardgotwig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 2012/9/23 Eduard Gotwig <gotwig@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hey,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I think about if we can add the 8 most popular languagee packs
>>>>>>>>>> for GNOME to the ISO image? There is still space left.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> These 8 languages should be the ones, that are available on our
>>>>>>>>>> new website:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>    - [image: English]English
>>>>>>>>>>    - [image: Français]Français
>>>>>>>>>>    - [image: Deutsch]Deutsch
>>>>>>>>>>    - [image: Italiano]Italiano
>>>>>>>>>>    - [image: Español]Español
>>>>>>>>>>    - [image: Português]Português
>>>>>>>>>>    - [image: Polski]Polski
>>>>>>>>>>    - [image: Nederlands]Nederlands
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> We cant include all, becouse they take too much space I guess.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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