On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 13:24 +0200, Charles Schulz wrote: > > Except that there is not a NLC for England, for example. > > > Then refer to OOo Team.
In Germany! Great I am an English citizen and I have to refer to OOo Team in Germany who publish no accounts and give me no idea whether money raised in England would ever be spent on English priorities. > And besides, that's not true. There is a Welsh > Native-Lang project and a Scottish Gaelic one. If England hadn't invaded > and spoiled the Welsh and the Scots we wouldn't have this problem... :-P I would expect the NL lead to be a bit more sensitive in terms of race relations, I'm English, not Welsh and certainly not Scottish. You want to look at some of the politics involved in the Scottish and Welsh National Assemblies. OOo could learn from it. God forbid I should say anything similar about the French :-p > >> There's really no reason to ship a T-shirt from let's say U.S. to > >> Denmark since shipping costs would be much more than the price of a > >> T-shirt. > >> > > > >> So, why havent we done it in the Danish NLC? Because we don't have a > >> bank account. And we can't have a bank account because we're not a > >> formal organization. So the problem is really an organizational one. > >> > > > > We set up an Open Document Foundation UK here in the UK for about £25 > > and it took a couple of hours. Setting up a bank account takes a little > > longer because of all the security stuff now in place but its not hard > > to do. > > > IMHO the goal of this foundation was not to make it easier to print > T-Shirts. Especially when you can get the official ODF apparel here: > http://www.cafepress.com/oasis_open/622258 Who said it was? Its not currently in use but if we do need it, its there so we won't need to miss opportunities. I was saying simply that setting up a foundation is easy in England, it might or might not be in other countries - its certainly a bit more work and more expensive in the USA although Gary Edwards seems to have managed it. The point was made that its significantly more expensive not to say environmentally unfriendly to import stuff from the USA that could be sourced locally. Ian -- www.theINGOTS.org www.schoolforge.org.uk www.opendocumentfellowship.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
