Vitor, see my comments inline.
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 17:23 +0000, Vitor Domingos wrote: > I'll have to heavily disagree on this. > > English could not have a Native Lang project, it's our working basis > language. All projects belong to this already created english NL and it > doesnt need to be created all over again. We're just duplicating work, > lists, members and leaders. No, certainly not. Remember that we use English between us because it's the common language. Hence, the Marketing Project deals (or should deal) with issues regarding everybody, not just the english native speakers, and so forth for any project. As Louis stressed it, if we had lived in the 18th century, we would all speak French, yet, there still would have been a need for French native speakers to have their own community, outside of the global and technical projects. > > The localization work is build in OOo and all the other work could be > found on the general mailing lists and projects. Actual Marketing > project is the English marketing project, which has and defines the > global marketing plan for OOo. well, if this was true, this would be unfair, don't you think? :-) Marketing project should not deal with matters only regarding a part of our users, but should deal with marketing on a global scale. > > But I understand that England MP plans could be diferent from the USA, > and it could all still be done in the actual MP. Maybe we're just > talking about having MP divisions, for USA, UK, AUS, etc and not having > the need for English NLC. You forget users support, QA, documentation, etc... This all makes a Native-Lang project. And for all this, there is a need to gather English native speakers in one community while letting the "central" projects deal with general issues at large. Regards, Charles. > > Best regards, > //VD > > Ryan Singer wrote on 02/15/2005 06:57 PM: > > Native-Lang project: English > > Project code: en > > Project level: Level II > > Project lead: Ryan Singer > > Project co-lead: Ian Lynch > > > > This is a proposal to start an English Native-Lang Project. This NL > > project is intended to cover all variations of English. That is, it is > > not specific to either US or British English, or any other variant. > > > > The reason to start this project at Level II is that all of the > > localisation work is already done for English, allowing the project to > > immediately get started with grass-roots marketing. For every other > > language, the respective NL project looks after grass roots marketing > > efforts (banners, flyers, handing out CDs, etc) and the global > > marketing goals (like the SMP) are left to the marketing project. > > Since the MP operates in English, the English language doesn't have an > > NL project dedicated to this sort of grass roots effort. This creates > > an unusual burden on English-speaking MarCons and results in missed > > opportunities in English speaking countries. > > > > An English NL project would also help lower the disparity between > > projects. Right now the OOo project is roughly divided into "English" > > and "everyone else". An English NL project is a first step towards, > > eventually, having all languages on the same level, with English as a > > modular part of the whole, like every other language. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
