On 23/08/2008 André Schnabel wrote: > So - if you are member (or know) of such an association, can you please > send me information about it? > I'm interested in the ways you support OOo, how you coordinate with the > OOo contributors, what the main reasons for funding the assocition were.
The Italian Native-Lang Project is itself an association, named PLIO (Progetto Linguistico Italiano OpenOffice.org, which simply means Italian OOo Native-Lang Project). We decided to transition from an informal group to an association a couple of years ago, and we succeded in encouraging the volunteers -the most active of them, at least- to join the association. So there is virtually no difference between people involved in PLIO and in the Italian community. The advantages of being an association include: possibility to receive donations (from taxpayers too because we are recognized as a charity in Italy), being a legally recognized organization (so we can be admitted to working groups and official talks), having a well-defined internal structure. The English version of our first press release can still be found at http://robertogaloppini.net/2007/02/02/openofficeorg-italian-association-is-born-press-release/ Our web site is http://www.plio.it/ Regards, Andrea Pescetti - Italian N-L project lead. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
