Dear Zanga, Le Wed, 19 May 2010 12:02:43 +0200, Zanga Chimombo <z.chimo...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> > My name is Zanga Chimombo. I am IT professional living and working in > Blantyre, Malawi. I would like to propose my native language ChiNyanja > also known as ChiChewa, Chewa or Nyanja (ISO 639-1: ny, ISO 639-2: > nya) to be considered as an NLC project of the Open Office suite of > software. ChiNyanja is spoken in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. > > I have some experience of involvement in an open source software > project (http://bawo.sourceforge.net) and I am aware of prior work on > a ChiNyanja spell checker by Kevin Scannell and Soyapi Mumba > (myspell-ny version 0.01) released in January 2005. As a start I would > like to update this work in order to make a ChiNyanja spell checker > dictionary available as an Open Office 3.0 Extension Dictionary. > > I would then be in a position to expand the dictionary as well as > create a thesaurus and maybe even grammar checker. I am hoping that by > this stage, significant interest can have been generated for the > project within Malawi and surrounding countries. > > I look forward to your favourable consideration. > > Kind regards, Zanga. > Thank you for your proposal. Your request is a bit atypical, as it does not involve a direct localization work of OpenOffice.org in your language. I therefore suggest you work with our Lingucomponent project that is in charge of dictionnaries: http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org At the same time, we can open a native-language project (level 2) for ChiNyanja, but you would have to create pages for the website in your language, manage mailing lists, etc. What do you think? best regards, Charles-H. Schulz Lead of the NLC. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org
