I'm pleased to announce that the Finnish Native-Lang group was awarded as the Linux Influence 2005 (lit. Linux Maker) in Finland on wednesday, for the translation of OpenOffice.org 2.0. Especially the quality of the translations was praised.
The award is given annually to a company, association, or individual, who has advanced the position of Linux or the Linux user community significantly. The award was given the first time in 2002. The award was given by Finnish Linux User's Grup (FLUG) and the award committee consisted of representatives from various Open Source organisations in Finland. I would like to thank especially Asmo Koskinen, who founded our Native-Lang project and community in 2003, and been a leading figure in our efforts since then. Last year, he assembled a team of 15 translators who did most of translation updates for OpenOffice 2.0. He has also done much of the communications with different parties and been very helpful in the translation process. The press release is available (in Finnish) at: http://www.flug.fi/tiedotteet/2006/tiedote-linuxtekija2005.pdf Well, there's a picture of me, Harri Pitkänen (who integrated a Finnish spellchecker to OOo 2.0), and Asmo Koskinen. There's also people from the Finnish Debian community in the picture, as they got another award. In my speech of thanks, I thanked the most important members of the Finnish Native-Lang community, and also Pavel Janik, who has been doing our builds for over two years. The award was presented in "Open Source 2006" seminar, which had speakers such as the CEO of Novell Finland. Speakers from the Finnish OOo community included Asmo Koskinen, who gave a presentation about the adoption of OOo and Linux in the parish of Kokkola in central Finland (about 50 OOo installations), and Pasi Dahlsted from Finnish Association of People with Mobility Disabilities (about 1100 OOo installations), who gave a management level lecture about the integration of Open Source Software. If you want to know more, I can give more details. -- Marko Grönroos, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://www.iki.fi/magi/) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
