[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 neutra

[native-lang-dev] Re: New Project Lead role for the Chinese (Traditional) Native-Language team

2011-04-13 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi On 2011-04-12, at 23:45 , imacat wrote: >Thank you all. I'm imacat from Taiawan. We our Taiwan local > community team urged to contribute to OOo zh-tw translation for years, > and were unable to find a way to do this due to some reason. Most

[native-lang-dev] Re: New Project Lead role for the Chinese (Traditional) Native-Language team

2011-04-13 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
H all, I'm sorry for the late reply—I was doing some local travelling today. On 2011-04-12, at 09:33 , RAFAELLA BRACONI wrote: > Dear All, > > I would like to officially welcome Imacat in her new project lead role for > the zh-tw OOo native language team. Welcome! > > @Stefan/Louis: can y

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

2011-02-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
ahead 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: >> A

[native-lang] Updates....

2011-02-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
also 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 Lan

[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 a

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

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 th

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 > http

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 s

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 > wrote: >> A researcher is interested in tracking downloads of the Irish Gaelic >> binaries. Can anyone

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

2010-06-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
it the Atom with Rutherford and so a first lurks in > this Oo somewhere. > :-) Ciao Louis > RY > NZ > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 10/06/2010, at 5:59 AM, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> >> On 2010-05-19, at 06:13 , Roderick Young

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

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, M

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 associa

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, t

Re: [native-lang] Fixing the Bouncer

2010-05-30 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2010-05-30, at 07:39 , Lars Nooden wrote: > On 05/29/2010 11:14 PM, leif wrote: >> Never mind the name ;-) >> >> What we need is knowledge about how many downloads we have. > > How much info do we get from the various linux repositories? Just about zero. I've asked, but that was a whil

[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 t

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

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 a

[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 shari

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 w

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 inte

Re: [native-lang] Scam sites and openoffice

2010-03-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
HI, On 2010-03-11, at 01:00 , Kostas Papadimas wrote: > Στις 10-03-2010, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 16:31 -0500, ο/η Louis Suarez-Potts > έγραψε: >> Kostas, >> >> I'll be writing the greek site (and also the spanish one, now--in Spanish) >> but my Greek is nearl

Re: [native-lang] Scam sites and openoffice

2010-03-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Kostas, I'll be writing the greek site (and also the spanish one, now--in Spanish) but my Greek is nearly as good as my Mongolian, and both point to sad ignorance. Perhaps you can help? Louis On 2010-03-10, at 13:19 , Kostas Papadimas wrote: > I've just spotted a scam site (http://www.offic

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] 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 (http

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

2010-03-07 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
e his role from >>> observer to Project Lead). The new lead shall 1) upload his/her ssh >>> keys, sign and fax the SCA. >>> >>> This is explained here: http://native-lang.openoffice.org and here: >>> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/NLC >>

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

2010-03-01 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
distros of Ubuntu will benefit. >> But, can only guess that many of them tried to register here, but because no >> one admitted they have found another place to have fun. >> >> >> Thanks, >> //Agroni >> >> >> >> ---

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

2010-03-01 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
; But, can only guess that many of them tried to register here, but because no >> one admitted they have found another place to have fun. >> >> >> Thanks, >> //Agroni >> >> >> >> --

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

2010-02-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
munity_Council/Items/call_for_nominations_201003 -- Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org

[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] India and Sun Tech Days

2010-01-13 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi I'm rather interested in learning who in India would be interested, should it be possible, to participate (or attend) the Sun Tech Days coming up. The global schedule is here: http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/locations.jsp And we can see from it that Hyderabad is 24-25 March, with S

[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 mail

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

2009-12-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
s a logical home for localization efforts. But you can localize without an NLC project. -louis PS I'll also get to the project today. > Best regards. > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 2009-12-01, at 10:59 , Charles-

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....

2009-12-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
, I know, and I by no means was putting the burden on you to maintain the effort! I think we all appreciate that which you have been able to do. > > I have not even had time to stay in contact with Per over this year. > > Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: >> I'm concerned about the Sw

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 a écrit : > >> >> I'm concerned about the Swedish language group and for that matter, >> the OOo advocates a

[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 it

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 communiti

[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 elections

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.or

[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] 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 ab

[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 suit

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 a écrit : > >> Thanks! I would like to start/resume the Sinhala oo.org native lang project. >>> >>> What do you need? You ar

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

2009-11-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
d where to vote. 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, S

[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 taking

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

2009-10-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
_2009 [1] http://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] 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 ---

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] Call for Nominations for Community Council Election

2009-10-13 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
ml#PowersoftheCouncil [2] http://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 Mic

[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 our

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 a écrit : Dear Charles or Louis, How long does it take to approve the ssh key? I ha

[native-lang] regional group meeting 2009-07-10 log

2009-07-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Attached is the log for the regional group meeting held today, 10 July. AIs: Raphael B and Claudio to send to this list summaries of activities and problems, including fisl (Claudio) and setting up the NGO (Raphael), as well as problems in attracting students to the projects. As well, raise

[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 additiona

[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] SFD project registration

2009-07-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
I began the process of registering OOo as a team for SFD but had to abandon it mid-doing. We already have from previous years a page, http://softwarefreedomday.org/OpenOffice . But need one for the teams. See, http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/register.html Feel free to finish the job; I ca

[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 S

[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 a

[native-lang] unable to attend regional group meeting

2009-06-25 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Unfortunately, I cannot attend the next regional group meeting, as I'm in Japan and in meetings all day with IPA representatives. (I also had to miss today's CC meeting as I was stuck in flight from Beijing to Tokyo, then on the long train ride form Narita to Tokyo, then meetings.) best lou

[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 I

[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/ hello, all. hello khirano. hi JiHui Choi san you know, louis will be late. =-= Mr_Dust is now known as Jihui =-= Jihui is now known as Jihui_Choi Yes, I have read his mail to the list So I think you must be the host. :) khiran

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] 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 w

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
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 the

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

[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: dev-un

Re: [native-lang] Regional Groups #2 Meeting 20090515

2009-05-17 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2009-05-15, at 21:14 , JiHui Choi wrote: Hi Kazunari san. I miss you. :) On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: We held a brief meeting today, Friday 15 May, on the Regional Groups proposal. Meeting began at 13:00 UTC and ended 1.5 hours later. Attendees

Re: [native-lang] Finland and Belgium

2009-05-16 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
rlecht 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:

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 > 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 region gourp) I lost my log.

[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: http://www.osor.eu/news/be-anderlecht-charleroi-and-vor

[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=5&day=15&year=2009&p1=0&p2=37&p3=248&p4=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 communi

[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] minutes from OOoCon

2008-11-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, Last Tuesday (seems like months ago), we had an excellent meeting in Beijing. Italo Vignoli took minutes, and will be posting them, along with suggestions of what to do ("action items") later on this week. Briefly, the points discussed had a lot to do with enhancing cross-NLC communic

[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, at

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, whic

[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 OpenOffi

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

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

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

2008-08-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
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, but also Open Source Days, in Copenhagen. As I'm already attending t

[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, participate

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 t

[native-lang] OOo, OOXML, MSO, UOF, ODF, China, Community

2008-05-26 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
[please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] So I gave the first actual presentation (keynote?) at the Open Source China, Open Source World (put on by Copu) last week, in Guangzhou. Big event, very theatrical and for that very reason, important. The timing was rather perfect: MS had just announced

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 I'v

[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

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 work

[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 intermit

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 mont

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

[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

Re: [native-lang] Miskito Yearly Report

2008-03-01 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, Adolfo, On 2008-01-29, at 21:35 , Adolfo Fitoria wrote: Hi Everyone. Miskito Native Lang Project was recently aproved in December 2007 We are in the process of setting it up and start translating wait more info soon. atte Adolfo Fitoria Well, we are getting there ;-) BTW, I am sadly ig

[native-lang] OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Program

2008-01-29 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
: [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

[native-lang] Fosdem 2008

2008-01-19 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Call for Papers and Workshops for Fosdem 2008 Developer Room for OpenOffice.org Fosdem 2008 (23-24 February, Brussels, Belgium) [0] is legendary for being a focused and exciting developer and contributor conference. This year, it will host a Developer Room (DevRoom) for OpenOffice.org fro

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 fi

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