XMPP Summit - 2019-01-21

"[..] leaving a program called Biboumi as the best option. Except … it wasn’t an option for me, because my cheap-ass servers aren’t compatible." biboumi doesn't require that up-to-date stuff does it

or are they talking about resource consumption :/

How do I properly translate "hand-rolled couscous" in French?

couscous roulé à la main

?

"rolled" for couscous sounds weird. I had no idea that's how it's made

"Un autre terme qui dérive de la même racine berbère que seksu est le verbe berkukkes, de kukkes « rouler la semoule » et de ber qui signifie « redoubler le travail dans le but d'agrandir les grains5 »."

Interesting

Guus, so yeah I guess that's a thing

You'd "roll" the "semoule" though, "couscous" is the prepared dish right

pep. All I know is that the Dutch menu included this dish (which I translated): "Sea bass with hand-rolled couscous, zucchini, tomato & ras el hanout"

Oh I just now realized, that this is the summit discussion muc, while I intended to send the blog post to the newsletter muc :D

Best I could come up with was: "Filet de Bar avec couscous roulé à la main, courgettes, tomates & ras el hanout"

Could just translate it as couscous :)

What's "ras el hanout"

Kev, and mess with the French culinary experience? I think not 🙂

haha

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ras_el-hanout

I see

Guus: yes

goffi: yes?

Yes.

Guus: yes your translation is right.

Tx

I am pretty proud of one particular translation I did.

🙄😏

someone needs to translate 'zucchini'

To which language?

I thought French, English, and Dutch would be sufficient.

Or is it that you prefer courgette?

ralphm: you mean French, en-US, Dutch

en-GB uses courgette

I fixed it for Matt

English is theori{z,s}ed to be a creole anyway.

I was actually surprised the first time I learned that. Talking to an English colleague: "You know the.. *turns to Link Mauve* comment tu dis courgette ?" "Ah courgette! Yes I know courgette" (that colleague replied)

:D

So many French words you can use as-is in English, as long as you use the right accent. ^^

In doubt, use French

It's often a French thing to try to pronounce French words using a more or less English accent when they don't know the right one, sometimes it works, sometimes it's just… funny

But more often they use right words with a very french accents (and it's just funny too).

goffi, you can s/they/we/ :p

My favorite is Cherry.

MattJ: does the correction I did help?

Link Mauve: and I think I have a specially terrible accent, event for French standards ;)

ralphm, perfect, thanks

I only learned what zucchini was a few years ago

but you knew of courgette before?

Of course, that's what it's called

In Italian too it's Zucchino

The thing that is like a cucumber but more disappointing

Didn't know that... We call it Carbassó, not easy to guess

Seve/SouL: which language?

Catalan

Calabacín in Spanish

(if at some point this discussion evolves beyond 'naming of vegetables', kindly ping me again 😉 )

Sorry for interrupting your language findings ^^ *Syndace* comes crawling, slightly ashamed: I've planned to apply for XSF membership for a while but I've been quite lazy and haven't done so in the Q4 period of last year. Well now I'm all hyped for the summit and I obiously want to attend the XSF dinner, but because I'm not a member the dinner is 75€, which is.. a lot for me. Can I maybe slip in a last-second XSF membership?

I heard non-members have already been able to attend the dinner and not pay anything(?)

Just say you're poor

pep.: I mean, I don't want to hardcore beg.

Saying that I'm poor would be a lie, even though 75€ for one eveninh really is a huge amount for me.

Well, it is indeed an amount

Syndace, submit your membership application, submit the dinner form, and I'm sure we can deal with this :)

Syndace - I'll talk this over with the sponsor we have, that's paying for the dinner.

I'm pretty sure we can't sneak in an XSF Membership, but I'll ask about the dinner.

We're already hosting quite a few people - more than last year, judging from the summit attendees.

Guus: Thank you :) I ageee that it might not be a good idea to try and cheat the application progress.

Syndace could you drop me an email please?

I'm _swamped_ and cannot follow up immediately

an email is a good reminder for me.

Mondays...

MattJ: the dinner form is available already? On the wiki it doesn't seem so.

goffi, see the summit list and xsf@

I'll add it to the wiki

goffi: yes, working on my choices right now. Google translate and image search helps me a lot ;-)

:D

is the second main course lamb?

> Couronne de veau avec stoemp de chou vert - Veal crown with green cabbage stoemp (stew) - Kalfskroon met stoemp van groene kool

that one?

Veal

Kalbfleisch

I'm on the summit list, and see nothing about dinner

that sucks

I've sent an invitation email to both summit@ and members@ lists

tl;dr: fill out https://goo.gl/forms/vMZt0enMfFiAdSYM2

The google form right?

yeah

goffi, https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/summit/2019-January/001917.html

are there other people that didn't receive that mail?

I don't think I'm on the list to begin with.

(We've had blacklisting issues before, although I had hoped they'd be resolved by now)

... that's a good reason for you to not receive that mail...

But I found the form anyway, all good

Guus: thanks, will fill it later today.

Guus, you don't need "Le" btw, in "Le potage de saison" and "Le Poussin Braisé [..]" :)

Also french only takes capital letter at the beginning of a sentence and proper nouns

Hints for next time :P

refresh, and 'le' is gone

yeah, that's how I got it from the restaurant. I removed most capital letters, but forgot a few

some courses were copied from last year's form too

I suck at copy/pasting 🙂

next year, it'll be in Dutch only 😋 😇

haha

no, next year pep. will edit it. Right? RIGHT?

Sure I can

pep. if you do, please don't cat-call the dame, as _some people_ in here tend to do...

cat-call?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cat%20call

I see

There's one dame on the menu that gets treated with ... much enthusiasm... by someone here 🙂

ugh recaptcha..

Guus: FYI I've actually received the dinner email, it ended up in the wrong folder that why I've missed it, probably something wrong in the rule used for sorting.

goffi: k, tx

It is great that looks like this Summit + FOSDEM is going to rock, but it sucks for me, damn you guys

15:03:58 MattJ> someone needs to translate 'zucchini' → I indeed had to search for this because "there's no way 'courgette' is zucchini"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zucchini

> The zucchini (/zuːˈkiːni/, American English) or courgette (/kʊərˈʒɛt/, British English) is a summer squash (...)