On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts < louis.suarez-po...@sun.com> wrote:
> Next week, I shall be presenting (keynoting) on OpenOffice.org at > Gnome.Asia 2009 in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). (See http://2009.gnome.asia/) > The summit runs from 20-22 November and promises to be both interesting and > large. The OOo community (Vietnamese) as well as others interested in the > suite, such as government and business representatives, are slated to be > there. > > A focus--major focus--is the free desktop, a topic that Stormy Peters of > Gnome and I have discussed in a different context. It's an important topic, > and though everyone is tired of saying, "This is the year of X," still, > informing would-be users (esp. public and private enterprise users) of the > existence of real alternatives that provide both the functionality they want > as well as develop sustainable ecosystems, is of critical importance. The > regional (and global, I hope) emergence from the economic crisis has, I > hope, given us all the vantage of a new perspective. Or maybe we'll just > repeat the same mistakes. But let's work to make sure we don't. > > One of my interests in going to Vietnam is to help firm up the community > there and see about making it sustainable, so that it does more than > localization. We need developers of all levels, and localizers, though > important, cannot make a regional community self-sustaining. I'll thus be > investigating the nature of the existing ecosystem (support, services, etc.) > there, education options (to train users as well as contributors) and the > good-will interest of the government and others embarked in moving to free > software and OOo in particular. > > Any help and information the OOo community reading this can provide would > be appreciated! > > Thanks > Louis > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org > > Hi Louis, do you have a strategy on getting new developers on the project and can we know more about that? -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: j...@jabber.org
