Hi Sankarshan, Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ) wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:13 PM, sophie <sgautier....@free.fr> wrote: > >> May be they would like to give inputs on >> - why they are grouped this way? >> - what do they want to achieve? >> - why does it stay at the concept stage? >> - what would be needed for them to go further? >> - who is the coordinator, do they need one? > > Without speaking on behalf of any one of the existing groups, I could > put forward parts of the rationale. By a stroke of fortune or, perhaps > due to the intrinsic nature of FOSS development models, L10n teams > tend to be small, cooperative and work across a spectrum of upstream > (and, downstream) projects. Such close-knit working styles mean that > they can build upon shared experiences but more importantly, work > towards a much more rich content-localization. A Regional Group is, to > my mind, a somewhat official recognition of a federated group of folks > who work on various locales but by geography or work focus end up > helping each other out in the various stages of their workflows. > Having a Regional Group allows them to come together under some > _project_recognized_ forum_ and get more work done.
What you're explaining is very important and would help very much efforts that are disseminated and isolated in some Region. I see it in West Africa where several localization efforts (Fon, Dioula, Songhay for example) are appearing from time to time but where federation and sharing is really missing. > > Identifying a few 'leaders' who can coordinate with upstream and > within towards building shared resources and tools would augment the > power of the individual groups. Yes, make them feel less isolated and gain them recognition. Would you like also to add a page to the wiki concerning your Group and link it to this one: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Regional_Groups Thank you very much for your inputs and sharing your experience. Kind regards Sophie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org
