[native-lang-dev] Re: Fwd: [marketing-dev] Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-26 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
I think we are aware enough of Florian's post. :-) As I mentioned a couple of days ago on the marketing list, I would much rather have a neutral space made available for this sort of discussion, and do not want OOo lists to be dominated by this sort of post. If someone wants to suggest a

[native-lang] Updates....

2011-02-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
means that, as always, I remain attentive to what you need, want, desire, wish for, and will try my best to communicate those desires to whomever must hear them. Cheers, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Chair, Community Council Co-Lead, Marketing (and several other) Lead, Native Language

[native-lang] Re: [marketing] Updates....

2011-02-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
if we work with the engineers, not with the tenders of the last car, the caboose. From there, you can only see the past. Been there. Me, I want to do the future thing. Good luck, Peter Thanks, Louis On 02/11/2011 09:58 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: All, I've left Oracle but continue

Re: [native-lang] Change in Lead

2010-10-14 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2010-10-14, at 18:43 , Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: Le 14/10/2010 21:32, Louis Suárez-Potts a écrit : All, I have asked that Charles Schulz recuse himself from his role as lead of the NLC category because of the confusion his new role outside of OpenOffice.org would produce in the minds

Re: [native-lang] Change in Lead

2010-10-14 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2010-10-14, at 18:11 , Lior Kaplan wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts louis.suarez-po...@oracle.com wrote: All, I have asked that Charles Schulz recuse himself from his role as lead of the NLC category because of the confusion his new role outside of

[native-lang] Re: [project leads] Re: [native-lang] Change in Lead

2010-10-14 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2010-10-14, at 21:40 , Joey Stanford wrote: This is not an Oracle issue. Rather, it's a longstanding OpenOffice.org policy not to permit the use of our resources for the advocacy of other projects or interests. The issue at stake is not an us vs. them thing. By your own admission,

Re: [native-lang] We blogging too now

2010-09-08 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Thanks, Raphael! Is this blog part of the OOo general planet? Louis On 2010-09-08, at 14:14 , Raphael Bircher wrote: Hi at all OpenOffice.org Switzerland has started a blog for the contributors from Switzerland. The main part is in german for the moment. If you are interested

Re: [native-lang] Re: [marketing] What to do for 10 years OpenOffice.org?

2010-06-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Danishka, On 2010-06-27, at 03:20 , Danishka Navin wrote: Folks, I suggest to have a survey in addition to all proposed and planned activities. Would you do the actual survey work of setting it up and putting it on? and the questions you ask below are far too vague to be useful, as a

Re: [native-lang] Downloads for Irish Gaelic NLC

2010-06-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
This may be useful: http://ooopackages.good-day.net/mirrorbrain/query_chart.rb -Louis On 2010-06-20, at 23:47 , Kevin Scannell wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts louis.suarez-po...@oracle.com wrote: A researcher is interested in tracking downloads of the Irish

Re: [native-lang] Proposal for Native Language Confederation (NLC) Project - NY

2010-06-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
, at 5:59 AM, Louis Suarez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, On 2010-05-19, at 06:13 , Roderick Young wrote: Zanga A student in Waikato University, New Zealand (Aotearoa -Maaori indigenous language of Aotearoa (land of the long white cloud) New Zealand, Southern Hemisphere) back

Re: [native-lang] Proposal for Native Language Confederation (NLC) Project - NY

2010-06-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Zanga, I'm delighted to see your effort represented here! I've created the project and added a link to it to our native-lang.html page of projects. best Louis On 2010-05-19, at 06:02 , Zanga Chimombo wrote: My name is Zanga Chimombo. I am IT professional living and working in Blantyre,

Re: [native-lang] Proposal for Native Language Confederation (NLC) Project - NY

2010-06-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi all, On 2010-05-19, at 06:13 , Roderick Young wrote: Zanga A student in Waikato University, New Zealand (Aotearoa -Maaori indigenous language of Aotearoa (land of the long white cloud) New Zealand, Southern Hemisphere) back in early 2000's was from Malawi, Africa. We ate together and

Re: [native-lang] Icelandic as a NLC-project

2010-06-01 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
What is the issue tracker number and link associated with this request? Louis On 2010-06-01, at 13:20 , Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Hi Yes, of course. Louis On 2010-06-01, at 10:27 , Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Sveinn, Indeed, that's problematic. I'm sorry about this. Louis, can

Re: [native-lang] Icelandic as a NLC-project

2010-06-01 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
IN future, it helps to expedite to provide the actual link. Louis On 2010-06-01, at 13:55 , Sveinn í Felli wrote: Seems like Issue 108716 Sveinn Þann þri 1.jún 2010 17:24, skrifaði Louis Suarez-Potts: What is the issue tracker number and link associated with this request? Louis

[native-lang] Re: [l10n-dev] Results for the Community Council Elections (2010-03)

2010-05-04 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Olivier Welcome to the team :-) I'm delighted to see you on the Council and look forward (a trite but true phrase) to working with you! And I think that the strong presence now of a key BrOffice lead is of immeasurable value. Few other community organizations have proven themselves in quite

Re: [native-lang] Translation of odt2daisy new version and website

2010-04-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Thanks! On 2010-04-10, at 11:46 , Nino Novak wrote: On Saturday 10 April 2010 14:33, Sophie wrote: This is a call to help on the translation of odt2daisy [1] (this is the format who allow visually impaired people to read books :-). If nobody complains, I'm going to take the German

[native-lang] Re: OpenOffice 3.2 QA workshop in Sri Lanka

2010-03-30 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
And I blogged. Louis On 2010-03-30, at 13:32 , Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi Danishka, Danishka Navin wrote on 2010-03-30 17.02: Thanks all; here is the Blog post : http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2010/03/openoffice-32-qa-workshop-2010-sri.html thanks a lot for sharing - I've

Re: [native-lang] The Swiss NGO is online!

2010-03-30 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Raphael, My apologies for not congratulating you first, fastest, and most :-) I've witnessed, and I hope, helped, you and your team arrive at this point, and it is great. I shoiuld hope that your work can prove to be a model others can follow in setting up regional (and sustainable) groups. I

Re: [native-lang] Scam sites and openoffice

2010-03-28 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Thanks. I'll forward this to the trademark group. Louis On 2010-03-28, at 13:21 , Simon Brouwer wrote: Hi, One of our users encountered this one: http://www.downloaden-office.com/ Although there appears to be a Chilean company behind this, the Dutch text on the website is quite well

Re: [native-lang] OpenOffice 3.2 QA workshop in Sri Lanka

2010-03-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Danishka, et al. Thanks for the information and great news! I look forward to hearing more of what happens in your workshop and, more broadly, in the acceptance and adoption of OOo in Sri Lanka. I think you probably do not need our specific help, but I'd like to second Charles' offer of an

Re: [native-lang] Scam sites and openoffice

2010-03-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, I have notified the trademark list members of this site and will contact them (the Greek site). They seem to be engaging in risky behaviour. -louis On 2010-03-10, at 15:35 , Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: Le 10.03.2010 19:19, Kostas Papadimas a écrit : I've just spotted a scam site

Re: [native-lang] Scam sites and openoffice

2010-03-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Thanks, Jesús, I had not been aware of this company. -louis On 2010-03-10, at 13:34 , Jesús Corrius wrote: Here it is another one in Spanish: http://openoffice.es-2010.net/es/ You just have to do some searches in Google and they will appear easily. 2010/3/10 Kostas Papadimas

Re: [native-lang] Re: [Fwd: Re: [Issue 103426] Albanian team leader not active for 4 years]

2010-03-07 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
/NLC Until any of these steps have been completed we cannot consider that we have a project and a leadership. If necessary, Louis Suarez-Potts can change the role of the person whose new leadership role has been agreed on. But even today, it's even unclear who we're talking to. Please note

Re: [native-lang] Re: [Fwd: Re: [Issue 103426] Albanian team leader not active for 4 years]

2010-03-01 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Subject: Re: [Issue 103426] Albanian team leader not active for 4 years From: Louis Suarez-Potts lui...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:34:55 -0500 To: linuxmas...@verizon.net To: linuxmas...@verizon.net CC: southerncr

Re: [native-lang] Re: [Fwd: Re: [Issue 103426] Albanian team leader not active for 4 years]

2010-03-01 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Subject: Re: [Issue 103426] Albanian team leader not active for 4 years From: Louis Suarez-Potts lui...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:34:55 -0500 To: linuxmas...@verizon.net To: linuxmas...@verizon.net CC: southerncr

[native-lang] eGov monitor - A Policy Dialogue Platform | Promoting Better Governance

2010-01-25 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Well, this is good news. Louis http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/32907

[native-lang] projects updated

2009-12-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
I've (finally) acted on the requests for NLC projects and have created them, along with updating the germane Issue Tracker components and projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html page to reflect the changes. If you do not see your project there or if the data are inaccurate, let me know by

Re: [native-lang] Create Haitian Creole website for OOo

2009-12-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
I'll get to it today, provided that Charles has filed--as I am sure he has--the issue. -louis On 2009-12-18, at 10:58 , Jean Came Poulard wrote: Me and the Logipam(http://logipam.org) team continue to wait for the creation of the Haitian Creople Localization Project. As we have resources

Re: [native-lang] Sweden redux....

2009-12-17 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2009-12-17, at 06:13 , Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Hello Louis, Le Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:29:59 -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts louis.suarez-po...@sun.com a écrit : I'm concerned about the Swedish language group and for that matter, the OOo advocates and OOo members in Sweden

[native-lang] Sweden redux....

2009-12-16 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
I'm concerned about the Swedish language group and for that matter, the OOo advocates and OOo members in Sweden. There are numerous activities going on and there are also quite a few businesses interested in or engaged with Foss and even OOo. ODF is also big there. But none of these factors has

Re: [native-lang] Proposal of translating Openoffice to Sidama Language

2009-12-12 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Apologies; this will be done tomorrow (Sunday; actually, later on today). Along with this, the other keys and projects that need to be done. best Louis PS the inefficiency really lies in requiring me to upload the keys and create the projects. I'm not persuaded this madness is justified by

Re: [native-lang] Create Asturian website for OOo

2009-12-01 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2009-12-01, at 10:59 , Charles-H.Schulz wrote: Marcos, As soon as Louis will have opened it. There is usally some time between proposals and the actual set up of the project... And that is intentional. The idea is to excite interest in the developer / contributor communities in

[native-lang] November 2009 Election Results

2009-11-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, The election held earlier this month ended quite satisfactorily and we held our first Council meeting with the newly elected members this last Thursday 26 Nov. [0]. On behalf of everyone concerned in the process, I'd like to congratulate all for the success of this first wave of

Re: [native-lang] [Fwd: [marcon] OOo representative required in Chile - Spring 2010]

2009-11-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
John, Have you received any replies? Louis On 2009-11-21, at 20:47 , John McCreesh wrote: Is there anyone from the Native Lang community interested in this? Thanks - John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred million - http://why.openoffice.org

[native-lang] Gnome.Asia 2009

2009-11-15 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
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

Re: [native-lang] Gnome.Asia 2009

2009-11-15 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2009-11-15, at 17:16 , Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts louis.suarez-po...@sun.com wrote: Hi Louis, do you have a strategy on getting new developers on the project and can we know more about that? There is no secret and it depends

[native-lang] Gnome.Asia 2009

2009-11-15 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi I shall be going, as I've mentioned to Gnome.Asia 2009, where I'll be keynoting. I'll also be helping the local community, and part of that help will include bringing, or at any rate trying to, material (funds) to get/make collateral for the summit that takes place 20-22 November. The time

Re: [native-lang] Re: [l10n-tools] Sinhala version of the OO.org build

2009-11-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2009-11-11, at 11:29 , Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Danishka, --snip-- Le Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:47:35 +0530, Danishka Navin danis...@gmail.com a écrit : Thanks! I would like to start/resume the Sinhala oo.org native lang project. What do you need? You are already the

[native-lang] [council-discuss] Final draft of Vote 2009 November

2009-11-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
. If you run into problems feel free to contact the commissary and observers. Commissary: Louis Suarez-Potts Observers: Drew Jensen, Mechtilde Stehmann, Stefan Taxhet Ciao, - Louis (on behalf of the OpenOffice.org Community Council) -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager, Sun Microsystems

[native-lang] Gnome.Asia Summit

2009-10-29 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi I've been invited to present at the Gnome.Asia Summit (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2009 ) later next month, 20-22 November. As many of you know, OOo has a strong team in Vietnam (and elsewhere) primarily localizing the application. The government, schools, universities, are also

[native-lang] Community Council/Items/Candidates October 2009 - OpenOffice.org Wiki

2009-10-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Items/Election_Process_Proposal [2] http://council.openoffice.org/#council -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org

[native-lang] Call for Nominations for Community Council Election

2009-10-13 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
://council.openoffice.org/councilcharter12.html#CouncilMembers [3] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Items/Election_Process_Proposal -- Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc. OpenOffice.org

Re: [native-lang] OOoCon Italian press contacts?

2009-10-13 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, Thanks Liz. Note, this would be journalists who would speak with general community members about OOo and ODF. louis - On 2009-10-13, at 17:33 , Elizabeth Matthis wrote: Hello Everyone, I just saw that Louis is looking for help getting journalists to contact regarding the OOoCon. Can

[native-lang] In: Mexico

2009-10-13 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
I'll be in Mexico (land of birth, family, tortillas and so much more, most of it even legal) from 14 to 20 October. Naturally, I'll be reachable via IM, email, and the phone. Oh, and I'm open to meeting people related to Foss there. -louis

[native-lang] Open World Forum

2009-09-28 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Next week, for the days of 1 and 2 October, the city of Paris will be the site of the 2009 Open World Forum [0]. Along with, I hope and expect, a great number from the OpenOffice.org francophone community, including Sophie Gautier, Charles Schulz, and others, I shall be there advancing

Re: [native-lang] Key approval

2009-08-14 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Sorry for delay. If I don't act on this (or other things) ping me directly. Best Louis On 2009-07-31, at 10:10 , Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Dear Ali, Le Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:44:06 -0700 (PDT), Ali Yusuf callibaa...@yahoo.com a écrit : Dear Charles or Louis, How long does it take to

[native-lang] late for meeting

2009-07-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
I shall be 15 minutes late for the next Regional Groups meeting; apologies. -louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org

[native-lang] Asian Regional Group meeting / RegiCon Asia?

2009-07-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Was there an Asian Regional Group Meeting Thursday? And is there a status update on the plans for an Asian RegiCon this year? Thanks Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org For

[native-lang] Regional Meeting Friday 2009-07-10 13:00 UTC

2009-07-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
There is the Friday Regional Group meeting for tomorrow, 13:00 UTC. The Friday meeting, is on irc.freenode.net #oooregional If there is to be a Thursday meeting, please indicate here to inform others. BTW: To post comments you need to be registered with freenode. If you wish to have your

[native-lang] Home - Software Freedom Day Wiki

2009-07-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
OpenOffice.org has always celebrated Software Freedom Day (SFD). And this year should prove no exception. I would like to see about posting links and icons related to it on the public pages, to announce to the world the importance we attribute to software freedom. As well, we can use that

[native-lang] project leads list

2009-06-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Dear All, I've recently created a lot of new projects and neglected to add all the new leads and co-leads of these to the dedicated project_leads list, which is used, among other things, to notify project leads and by extension their communities, of Project-wide events, issues, news. If

Re: [native-lang] Regional Group meeting(s)

2009-06-12 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
I will be likely late for this, by about 1/2 hour, and if someone else wants to initiate the meeting, please do so. Sorry for late notice, Louis On 2009-06-11, at 08:28 , Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: There is the Friday Regional Group meeting for tomorrow, 13:00 UTC. There may be another

[native-lang] Log of 4th Regional Group Meeting 2009-06-12

2009-06-12 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Herewith the log of the meeting; thanks to Khirano. -- quote/ Mr_Dust hello, all. Mr_Dust hello khirano. khirano hi JiHui Choi san Mr_Dust you know, louis will be late. =-= Mr_Dust is now known as Jihui =-= Jihui is now known as Jihui_Choi khirano Yes, I have read his mail to the list

[native-lang] Regional Group meeting(s)

2009-06-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
There is the Friday Regional Group meeting for tomorrow, 13:00 UTC. There may be another tonight, Thursday. The Friday meetin, is on irc.freenode.net #oooregional If there is to be a Thursday meeting, please indicate here to inform others. BTW: To post comments you need to be registered

Re: [native-lang] 3rd (or 4th?) Regional Meeting Friday 29 May 2009

2009-05-31 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2009-05-30, at 04:18 , Charles-H. Schulz wrote: I may have misunderstood but it should also be noted that AFAICT RG groups wiki should also belong to the NLC category, or am I being mistaken? I think mistaken, as a lot of the regions will occupy more than one linguistic territory

Re: [native-lang] Reminder

2009-05-28 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Asmelah, Welcome! I just created the project and so you need now to add some interesting content to it :-) Sorry about the delay--I urge you and others to poke me if I don't respond immediately. Cheers, Louis On 2009-05-26, at 05:06 , Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Dear Asmelash; I still

Re: [native-lang] Next Regional Group Meeting 29 May 13:00 UTC

2009-05-25 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Reminder 29 May is this Friday. -louis On 2009-05-18, at 24:21 , Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: The next regional group meeting will be held Friday 29 May at 13:00 UTC via IRC at irc.freenode.net #oooregional To post comments you need to be registered with freenode. See you there! Louis

Re: [native-lang] Next Regional Group Meeting 29 May 13:00 UTC

2009-05-25 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
hi, On 2009-05-18, at 01:56 , Peter Junge wrote: Louis, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: The next regional group meeting will be held Friday 29 May at 13:00 UTC via IRC at irc.freenode.net #oooregional thanks for sending this invitation much earlier this time. I still have an issue about

[native-lang] Next Regional Group Meeting 29 May 13:00 UTC

2009-05-17 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
The next regional group meeting will be held Friday 29 May at 13:00 UTC via IRC at irc.freenode.net #oooregional To post comments you need to be registered with freenode. See you there! Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [native-lang] Regional Groups: Meeting 2 13:00 UTC Friday 15 May

2009-05-16 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2009-05-15, at 21:08 , JiHui Choi wrote: On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: Hi - was wondering who was there for North America? Attended: Louis from Canada, rbircher from Switzerland, Alexando from Mexico, chs, Jihui Choi from Korea(CJK

Re: [native-lang] Finland and Belgium

2009-05-16 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
and will soon develop their own roadmap towards OOo. Also here CIBG will probably be a partner as Vorst is situated in the Brussels Capital Region. Best regards Leo Moons nl.OpenOffice.org OooAuthors/nl - Belgium Nous sommes condamnés à être libres Louis Suarez-Potts schreef: Hi

[native-lang] Finland and Belgium

2009-05-15 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, It was with pleasure that I read today's latest headlines from OSORhttp://www.osor.eu/ Especially as it related to Finlandhttp://www.osor.eu/news/fi-finance-ministry-updates-its-tailored-version-of-openoffice and also Belgium:

[native-lang] Regional Groups: Meeting 2 13:00 UTC Friday 15 May

2009-05-14 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi all, The second meeting on Regional Groups will be held later today, 13:00 UTC Friday, 15 May. As before, the meeting will be at irc.freenode.net, #oooregional To find your time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?month=5day=15year=2009p1=0p2=37p3=248p4=771

[native-lang] Initial Regional Groups Meeting 2009-05-01

2009-05-01 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Today, on short notice, several of us held a brief (~1 hour) meeting on regional groups. These groups dedicated to promoting OOo without bounded by language or specific marketing claims. The idea is to do things that are effective, to collect donations that enable them, and to build

[native-lang] happy new year!

2009-01-01 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi All, It's a new year!-- at least to those happily following the Gregorian calendar-- and last year, for all its amazing and revelatory awfulness--is over. This year seems full of hope: politically, technologically, socially. It's not just about change; it's about realizing our vision

[native-lang] Re: BrOffice.org: Video Conference arrangements

2008-10-04 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hello All (including the [EMAIL PROTECTED] lang groups): Yesterday saw BrOffice's 3rd magnificent cross-country, cross- continent, cross-city event. [0] Enormously ambitious, the event stitched together cities and people scattered across tens of thousands of kilometres to present on

Re: [native-lang] Question about OpenOffice.org in primary schools

2008-10-04 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Lief, As I wrote today--and I'll probably see you later on--there was an event in Brazil and Portugal yesterday in which it was mentioned that millions of schoolchildren are getting OOo on Linux boxen. The governments of Brazil, Portugal and also Venezuela are rolling out these boxes,

[native-lang] Open Source Days

2008-10-04 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Today, 4 October, was the last day of Copenhagen's Open Source Days event.[0] It was pretty impressive, and I saw only a fraction of the two-day event--my real loss. The venue was Copenhagen's newest university, the IT-University [1], and the hall where the booths were was spectacular,

Re: [native-lang] Native-Lang Confederation meeting in preparation of OOoCon 2008

2008-09-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2008-07-29, at 18:46 , Andrea Pescetti wrote: (Please reply to dev@native-lang.openoffice.org if possible). The PLIO Association (Italian OpenOffice.org Native-Lang Project) is pleased to invite everyone involved in the Native-Lang Confederation to join the meeting that will be held in

[native-lang] FOSS.IN/2008

2008-08-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Foss.In is an important event. it's especially important for OOo, whose Indian community is in need of concretion and space for members to demonstrate their work. It's also a place--very important!!--for all to meet each other. This year, I would hope that the Indian NLC groups,

Re: [native-lang] Native-Lang Confederation meeting in preparation of OOoCon 2008

2008-08-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2008-08-21, at 16:25 , sophie wrote: Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Hi First, thanks, Davide and Andreas for the meeting and for arranging it... It's unfortunate that the date is in fact 3 October--it coincides, as Charles pointed out, with other events, and not just the BrOffice event

Re: [native-lang] NLC Party at OOoCon

2008-08-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2008-08-05, at 08:55 , charles-h.schulz wrote: Hello, Message du 05/08/08 03:21 De : Peter Junge A : John McCreesh Copie à : dev@native-lang.openoffice.org Objet : Re: [native-lang] NLC Party at OOoCon John, John McCreesh wrote: The draft Programme for OOoCon which I am hoping to

Re: [native-lang] Hello from the new project-lead for the Romanian NLC Project

2008-05-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hello! On 2008-05-19, at 20:27 , Alexandru Szasz wrote: Hello, My name is Alexandru Szasz, I have been nominated for project-lead role in the Romanian NLC Project. I'm known for my efforts for localization in other open source projects too, like Mozilla, Fedora and Gnome. A few months ago

[native-lang] Our New Look

2008-03-26 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Lohmaier (co-lead of website), Alexandro Colorado, André Wyrwa, Kay Schenk, and many others not mentioned here but no less important. Thanks to all. Best, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc. OpenOffice.org

[native-lang] Hello!

2008-03-19 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Neskie, I just created the Shs project: congratulations! let us know how we can further help But I'm also really interested in learning more about the effort, and more: to see if it's possible to link your effort up with other First Nations' work in this area. I've been doing

Re: [native-lang] Klingon (tlh) project

2008-03-19 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2008-03-19, at 17:21 , Kazunari Hirano wrote: Hi all, As some l10n people know, a small team has started Klingon translation of UI and Help at the Pootle. Now we need pages explaining what it is and calling for help, and some mailing lists to accept new contributors, coordinate the

Re: [native-lang] Re: OpenOffice Training Resources

2008-03-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Marcus, On 2008-03-03, at 13:56 , Marcus Silva wrote: Hi John, We in Brasil will make a oficial material so we could sell material to make oficial certificate. So we could have oficial teachers. We are thinking to be like MSCE, or Oracle certificated. It will be very nice so we have alot

Re: [native-lang] Re: OpenOffice Training Resources

2008-03-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2008-03-03, at 16:33 , Alexandro Colorado wrote: On a less heart-attached note, we are looking to deployed professional services online at OOoES. So far is still just a draft and we are still on discussions. We have review some technology to do this and will start some testing this

[native-lang] New License and Contributor Agreement

2008-03-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
, Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org Sun Microsystems, Inc. [0] http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/lgpl.html [1] http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/sca.pdf [2] http://gpl3.palamida.com:8080/index.jsp [3] http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/contributor_agreement.jsp [4] http

[native-lang] OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Program

2008-01-29 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, The Members of the Program Committee Louis Suarez-Potts John McCreesh Pavel Janík Stefan Taxhet [0] http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/awards/index.jsp - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[native-lang] fosdem 2008 wiki

2008-01-22 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi all, Jesús Corrius created a wiki for our fosdem 2008 presence: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Marketing/FOSDEM_2008 I just put a link to it on the homepage but please inform your communities of its existence--and that we really want the Community to consider presenting at this

Re: [native-lang] Regional mentors/leads

2008-01-15 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2008-01-13, at 07:22 , Cor Nouws wrote: Hi all, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote (12-1-2008 21:29) On 2008-01-11, at 14:44 , André Schnabel wrote: You know, sometimes I do presentations about our poject's structures and hw you can join. So I just like to know, where all this would fits

[native-lang] Fwd: Last Chance to Submit a Proposal

2008-01-14 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
I hope that all will consider submitting proposals Louis Begin forwarded message: From: O'Reilly Open Source Convention [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 14 Jan 2008 8:27:02 GMT-05:00 Subject: Last Chance to Submit a Proposal O'Reilly Open Source Convention - OSCON July 21-25, 2008 Oregon

Re: [native-lang] Regional mentors/leads

2008-01-12 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2008-01-11, at 14:44 , André Schnabel wrote: Hi, and thanks for bringing the proposal to a public list. Louis Suarez-Potts schrieb: * I want to be a Regional Community Lead! I want to be a Regional Community Lead! What shall I do? Simple. Write to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list

Re: [native-lang] Regional mentors/leads

2008-01-12 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi all, On 2008-01-12, at 08:04 , Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi Louis, all, This is not exactly a new proposal--we have discussed it on-list and off and on for years--but I'd like to raise it formally here for discussion. The proposal is to establish a more or less formal role, Regional

[native-lang] Regional mentors/leads

2008-01-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi all, This is not exactly a new proposal--we have discussed it on-list and off and on for years--but I'd like to raise it formally here for discussion. The proposal is to establish a more or less formal role, Regional Community Lead. One could also call it, as I used to, Regional

Re: [native-lang] Regional mentors/leads

2008-01-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2008-01-11, at 11:54 , Charles-H. Schulz wrote: * I want to be a Regional Community Lead! I want to be a Regional Community Lead! What shall I do? Simple. Write to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list a proposal and we'll take on from there. Oh, I never even thought of that 8-) But i'd

Re: [native-lang] NLP page and project list

2008-01-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2008-01-03, at 03:03 , Clytie Siddall wrote: My turn to be confused. Maybe I'm confused about this, but I thought the idea of getting us all to update the wiki list was to have one canonical list from which, if necessary, other lists or information could be updated. Surely we

[native-lang] Re: [project leads] Meeting minutes 2007/12/06

2007-12-14 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2007-12-08, at 11:50 , André Schnabel wrote: Hello *, meeting minutes for the mini-meeting are available at the wiki: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council_Minutes#2007-12-06 Thanks. We should prepare a next meeting very soon, as the next advisory board's

Re: [native-lang] Last CC meeting minutes

2007-11-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Thanks, Sophie. My apologies for not sending this out sooner. I've been dragged under by other things and wanted to send out finished minutes not an IRC log link. But ça va. On 2007-11-27, at 15:21 , sophie wrote: Hi all, The minutes of the last CC meeting (22th of November) can be found

Re: [native-lang] Re: [com] t-shirt distribution through NLC projects

2007-10-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2007-10-11, at 14:55 , Rafaella Braconi wrote: Hi Florian, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hello there in the NLC projects, as some of you may be aware of, the marketing project currently tries to bring out some merchandise for this quarter, sponsored by funds from Sun. We have the

[native-lang] Re: [regicon-india] FOSS.IN and OpenOffice.org

2007-10-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Folks, please submit proposals to foss.in by 08 October. No late submissions. See http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/ foss.in_project_day.html Takes place first week of December, Bangalore. Big conference :-) This ought to be of real interest to the Indic projects... best,

[native-lang] FOSS.IN and OpenOffice.org

2007-09-30 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, India's FOSS.IN is rightly considered one of the more important annual FOSS events. It's also large, fun, and exciting. This year, OpenOffice.org is honoured to have a Project Day, either 4 or 5 December, and all are invited to submit proposals. Our theme is Building the Indian

Re: [native-lang] How can I creat a Project?

2007-08-25 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2007-08-25, at 06:55 , Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Is this page actually better than http://native-lang.openoffice.org? I dislike having more than one authoritative page, obviously, and if the NLC homepage is uninteresting, then let's deprecate it or vice versa. But let's keep one for

Re: [native-lang] Re: problem with private key!

2007-08-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2007-08-21, at 21:48 , Caio Tiago Oliveira wrote: Louis Suarez-Potts, 21-08-2007 22:06: HIi Peter, Fast solution: create a new set and file an issue. I'll upload it quickly. Well... a quicker solution would be to change the mode of the file from 0666 to 0600: chmod 0600 /home

Re: [native-lang] How can I creat a Project?

2007-08-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
OOo. Indeed, that's a recommendation :-). Once you indicate you've read the document I pointed you to, please respond, and I'll set the project up. With Best Regards, -- Wunna Ko Ko Ciao Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org

Re: [native-lang] Bouncer again

2007-08-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2007-07-19, at 03:05 , sophie wrote: Hi Joost, all, Joost Andrae wrote: Hi Louis, I'm not a native language lead but as Sophie told me the French native language community (esp. the African francophone community) has problems regarding Bouncer because Bouncer doesn't seem to

Re: [native-lang] Bouncer again

2007-07-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2007-07-17, at 17:42 , Andrea Pescetti wrote: Louis Suarez-Potts ha scritto: A long while ago, back in February, I asked about using Bouncer for downloads. [0] There were some considered objections, [1] but I think they may have been addressed since then. Not completely. My objection

Re: [native-lang] Bouncer again

2007-07-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi all, On 2007-07-18, at 05:52 , Joost Andrae wrote: Hi Louis, I'm not a native language lead but as Sophie told me the French native language community (esp. the African francophone community) has problems regarding Bouncer because Bouncer doesn't seem to prefer regional download

Re: [native-lang] BrOffice.org site (was: Bouncer again)

2007-07-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2007-07-18, at 20:45 , Caio Tiago Oliveira wrote: We'll tell you when the site be back. thanks! and, of course, having weekly figures will help greatly--both OOo and your group, too :-), as it will bring yet more attention to BR's successes. Best louis

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