[native-lang] Re: [discuss] NLC IRC Conferences

2005-02-28 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hello Daniel and Ian, [snip] I'm maintaining the conference schedule here: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/conference/ I noticed in the schedule of the conference that Ian is listed as hailing from the English community and Daniel from English/Spanish comm. There is at present no English

Re: [native-lang] EN Native-Lang

2005-02-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hello, Hello, I have to say that I'm a little bit confused by all this. Even though I am in favor of an EN native-lang project, I'm afraid it would be created now for the bad reasons. It is not because the Marketing project pretendedly does a bad job that an EN project should be created.

Re: [native-lang] EN Native-Lang

2005-02-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Sophie, If I agree that an EN project should not be created out of frustration, however I think that what Ryan and Ian expressed has to be taken into consideration. I'm surprised that we say no to people offering time an energy to our community. I feel that this is not the concept of the

Re: [native-lang] EN Native-Lang

2005-02-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Jonathon, A north_american_regional_group would, by default, have to include, at a minimum, Spanish, and French. [French being an official language of Canada. Spanish being an official language in two states and the dominant language in five states of the united states. Not really. You

Re: [native-lang] EN Native-Lang

2005-02-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
hi I think it was agreed that one born out of frustration was not a good idea which is why there has been backing off. That does not mean that in principle an EN project is not needed for the reasons Charles and Sophie articulate. To me its simply a matter of symmetry and being seen to be

Re: [native-lang] fisl6.0

2005-02-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Anyone planning to go to the 6th International Free Software Forum http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/ June 1-4, 2005, Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil ? Yes. If you wish to present a paper, the Call for Papers deadline is Monday 28 Feb, see: https://fisl.softwarelivre.org/papers/index.en.html Thanks!

[native-lang] OpenOffice.org Joins the Call to Action in OASIS

2005-02-23 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, OpenOffice.org joins with the other signatories to protest the patent policy adopted by OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, the international consortium responsible for e-business standards. The call to action, issued by noted open-source

Re: [native-lang] Question about HSQLDB call for funds in your communities ?

2005-02-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Sophie, Hi to all, I would like to know how the HSQLDB call for funds is percieved in your projects. Is it something that surprised members but do they tend to agree with, or is it something that really frightened them because of how that could influence the final quality of the embedded

[native-lang] Minutes from NLC 2005-01-25 meeting

2005-01-26 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
2005-01-25 21:00 UTC Attendees: 19 NLC leads, including Charles Schulz, lead of NLC and Louis Suarez-Potts, Co-Lead. This emergency meeting was called to address the issues raised by the Stylist/Style issue discussed on dev@native-lang.openoffice.org and elsewhere and of particular concern

[native-lang] IRC meeting for NLC 2005-01-25 0800 UTC

2005-01-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi I'd like to call an emergency meeting of the NLC leads to discuss the issues surrounding the Stylist vs Styles issue that has been discussed on the mail list. The meeting will be via IRC. I propose Tuesday 2005-01-25 0800 UTC, which should be okay for all of us. (It's midnight for me, but that

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