I can translate the page into Tamil With Warm Regards
V.Kadal Amutham 919444360480 914422396480 On 31 January 2013 04:02, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam <kman...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Rob, > > Thanks a lot for your quick detailed directions. > > I totally agree with your opinion that International Mother Language Day, > is a very sympathetic idea and it share several goals with OpenOffice for > promoting mother languages. > > Thanks a lot for your suggestions. I would love to contribute to realize > all of these. Here I send my questions about your suggestions. > > 1) Banner Design: > For making IMLD banner for OpenOffice website is there any volunteer > interested to contribute? How the tasks normally get distributed in this > community? > > 2) Blog Post: > I can write the blog, but please let me know whether it is also possible to > write the blog in different languages. For example, we can prepare a draft > blog in English and other language bloggers can translate that into their > own language. That would be a very nice way to pass the message. > > 3) Speakers in IMLD event: > That is a very good idea. In fact we are organizing a big IMLD event in > Tokyo: http://internationalmotherlanguageday.com/uec/ > > Can you please recommend any speaker in Tokyo? > > If anyone can > > 3/A.Press Release: I can prepare the message of press release. But I do not > know how to send it to every news media. Can you please suggest anyone who > have experience on this? > > 4) Video Message: > > I am now interviewing many international students and teachers in Tokyo for > our IMLD event. > We will also release that in our website: > www.internationalmotherlanguageday.com > > In the video we will explain about the importance of IMLD and history etc. > I think this video project can be a joint effort with OpenOffice and we can > request the community to send us their video with self interview. > Here I send our current IMLD Video Interview questions. > > 1. Please introduce yourself > 2. Tell me something interesting in your language. > Funny phrase, sayings? > 3.Many Japanese hate English what about you? > 4. What is your story with English? eg. History of the learning. (hated at > the beginning? Started liking it?) > > 5.What other languages you can speak? > And why you learned those languages? > 6. How can you preserve your language? > 7. What is your dream? > 8. What do you think about IMLD? > 9. Happy IMLD in your language > 10. What is your mother language and why you love it? > > 11. Can you tell us the history behind IMLD in your language?Please let me > know if you have any suggestions to add any more questions to make it more > relevant with OpenOffice. > 5) IMLD theme: > The theme for International Mother Language Day 2013, promoted by UNESCO, > is *"The Book"*. > > We can make some good OpenOffice slogan for using in the banner. For > example: > a. Love your language and use OpenOffice in your mother language. > b. Any other ideas to adapt our message to that theme? > > Thanks a lot and I am looking forward for your directions. > > > With Best Regards, > Khan Md. Anwarus Salam > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam > > <kman...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > This is Khan, Convener of International Mother Language Day > > > Celebration. I am new in OpenOffice Community but I would like to take > > the > > > leadership for celebrating IMLD together with OpenOffice. Please let me > > > know who can help me and how for this purpose. > > > > > > > Hello Khan, > > > > Thank you for writing to us. We are the Apache OpenOffice project. > > We are a volunteer-led open source project and we maintain and publish > > free office suite software called Apache OpenOffice. We are part of > > the Apache Software Foundation, a public charity with the mission to > > publish free software for anyone to use. > > > > OpenOffice has existed since 2000 and over 100 million users have > > installed our software. We are one of the most popular and familiar > > open source products. > > > > We describe the "Public Service Mission" of OpenOffice on our website > > here: http://openoffice.apache.org/mission.html > > > > As you can see, we aim for cultural and linguistic diversity. This > > includes the support of regional and minority languages that > > commercial software vendors often neglect. As an all-volunteer > > project we are not constrained by what is "profitable" in a commercial > > sense. Our only limit is the enthusiasm of our volunteers. > > > > When I heard about International Mother Language Day, I thought that > > this was a very sympathetic idea and that we shared several goals and > > a similar outlook on the importance of promoting mother languages. > > > > So what could we do in OpenOffice to support IMLD? Some things that > > we can do include: > > > > 1) Use our project's outreach via our website and social media, to > > promote IMLD. Our website receives millions of visits each week. We > > could, for example, put an IMLD banner on our website during the week > > of IMLD. > > > > 2) We could do a blog post on our blog to talk about IMLD 2013, and > > the importance for open source software to offer wide support for > > regional and minority languages. > > > > 3) Depending on location, we might be able to provide a speaker at an > > IMLD event. Or we could provide quote for a press release. > > > > 4) We could interview an expert involved in IMLD about the event and > > the intersection of these concerns and software. > > > > These are just some ideas, brainstorming. Perhaps you have some other > > thoughts. > > > > Finally, one thing I noticed is that past IMLD's had a theme. It > > would be good to know what the theme will be in 2013, so we can adapt > > our message to that theme. > > > > I am looking forward to your reply. > > > > Regards, > > > > -Rob Weir, Apache OpenOffice Project Management Committee > > > > > > > With Best Regards, > > > Khan Md. Anwarus Salam > > > Convener > > > International Mother Language Day Celebration in Japan > > > http://www.internationalmotherlanguageday.com/ > > > Phone: +81-8041803667 > > > Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/motherlanguageday > > >
