Dear Louis,
Thanks for setting up Oromoo Language project.
We have submitted the ssh2key.
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From: Louis Suarez-Potts <louis.suarez-po...@sun.com>
To: Belayneh Melka <demb...@yahoo.com>
Cc: dev@native-lang.openoffice.org
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 5:22:44 AM
Subject: Re: [native-lang] proposal
Dear Belayneh,
To echo what Charles and others have said, welcome! I set up the project and
await now your request to add your ssh2 key.
I'm also deeply interested in seeing what we, OpenOffice.org, can do to advance
Foss and OOo in the Horn of Africa. As you may know, OOo was localized to
Swahili a while ago (Jamba Office), and is already available in Arabic, but
not, I believe, Hausa.
So: what kind of (alas non-monetary) support can we provide?
best
louis
On 2009-04-06, at 10:57 , Belayneh Melka wrote:
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> Proposal of translating Openoffice to Oromo Language
>
> This proposal is about creating NLC project for Oromo Language. It
> addresses 3 isues.About the target language, the project goal, and Our team.
>
> The target language
> Oromo Language(called Afaan Oromoo by the native speakers) is the first
> most spoken language in Ehiopia(more than 50%) and the horn of africa.Within
> Africa, it is the language with the fourth most speakers(more than 40
> million), after Arabic, Swahili, Hausa. In addition to Ethiopia, it is spoken
> in Kenya, Somalia, Djibuti, Tanzania and many countries in the rest of the
> world. It is written with modified latin alphabet called Qubee.
> Although spoken widely, this language is used by people who live in the
> poor part of the world(daily income of less than $2 per person). So the
> translation of Openoffice to this language is very significant for this
> people.
>
> The Project Goal
> Our team needs the openoffice Writer to be translated to Afaan Oromoo,
> Inside the Native Language Confederation.We wish to register a level two
> project. We have also already established a team of contributors for this
> project.
>
> The team
> The Project initiators are from Ethiopia.All team members use Oromo
> Language as their first language. Our team comprizes:Dawit ......(the
> cordinator of this project) - Bsc. degree in Linguistics and Litrature. Has
> done lots of thesis on Afaan Oromoo.He is committed to act as a responsible
> entrepreneur and inspired many Afaan Oromo speaking people to participate in
> this project. Belayneh Melka, Bsc. degree in Electrical Engineering. Has
> developed some Applications and Database Systems in Afaan Oromoo.In addtion,
> some students and teachers of Addis Ababa University Department of Oromo
> Language will participate on this project.
>
> About the project:
>
> Information for setting up the project:
>
> Username: barreessaa
> Project Name: om
> ISO code: om
>
> thank you
>
>
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Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD
Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
OpenOffice.org
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