Re: [native-lang] Native Language Planet?

2008-03-15 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:36 AM, John McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would there be any interest in the n-l community in having a similar Planet? Would be a good thing to have, especially if perhaps members blog in their own languages as well as English (when the issue is of general conce

Re: [native-lang] Annual reporting of projects

2008-01-03 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On 11/15/07, John McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Without giving away too many secrets ... it appears there are a lot of > journalists out there who filter PRs with the words 'Microsoft' or > 'Microsoft Office' in their title, so by using these words we get a much > higher hit rate... Call

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

2007-10-12 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On 10/12/07, Florian Effenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exactly that's what we think of - t-shirts and mugs/mouse pads for the > beginning. More to come. :-) Stickers, buttons, badges, mouse-pads and mugs - apparently these are "the" most desirable collectibles :Sankarshan -- >From Untrut

Re: [native-lang] English-Hindi Dictionary Plugin for OpenOffice,org 2.0 or later

2007-03-07 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On 3/7/07, RKVS Raman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BharateeyaOO.o group is happy to announce the availability of English-Hindi Dictionary for OpenOffice.org 2.0 and later. This dictionary/thesaurus is available for Java 1.5 enabled OpenOffice.org Installations. The thesaurus is useful as a d

Re: [native-lang] a new blog to summarize news

2007-02-09 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On 2/9/07, Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At the moment, CEE (what we use) doesn't support blogging. So, it would have to be in Services. And having such a thing--a planet--is not a bad idea there. Sayamindu (cc-ed) manages a Planet at http://planet-india.randomink.org, I guess

Re: [native-lang] Communication on security alerts

2007-01-07 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Hi, On 1/7/07, sophie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My question is : could we put a communication flow in place about those security alerts, make this communication transparent and usefull for our users and the press, and at the end show that we are concerned. Several reactions on the French list

Re: [native-lang] Information flow (was: Re: [native-lang] New template project

2006-12-04 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On 12/5/06, Clytie Siddall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It simply means that you send an initial description of what you are doing, to the main lists in the information hierarchy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc., one list to represent the information target root in ea

Re: [native-lang] Position of Native-Lang and other non-coding parts of the communty [was: New template project]

2006-12-04 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Hi, I am not a Project Lead and of late don't have any substantial contributions to the i18n/l10n bits of OO.o. Perhaps I am not qualified to comment. However, I *use* OO.o and *know* that OO.o and the NLC is one of the strongest reasons why organisations and folks switch to using FLOSS in their

Re: [native-lang] new mailing lists for NL groups

2006-10-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Hi, Charles Schulz wrote: > I, on the other hand, ackowledge this need, but question wether the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wouldn't be fit for that purpose. I would even go as far > as saying that having a separate ML for each new NL group could actually > strengthen the walled garden effect, something

Re: [native-lang] Translating OpenOffice.org is good for your economy

2006-06-19 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
John McCreesh wrote: > "So, what are some things we in Bangladesh can do immediately? > > "We can train our engineers on open source software in a very intense way. > Steps in the right direction appear to be taken by the Bangladesh Open > Source Network with projects to translate OpenOffice (an o

Re: [native-lang] Indic Language Updates

2006-03-10 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Hi, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: > I may have an idea here; it may sound a bit artificial but maybe the > Indic NL group could appoint somebody -Vijay Kumar- for instance as the > permanent contact for the ESC. I do realize that it is a two way effort, > so "coaching" the ESC on the strategic importan

Re: [native-lang] Indic Language Updates

2006-03-09 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Hi, Thanks Louis for posting this - apologies from my side since I did not keep up with my promise of putting in the list of issues. Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > The primary problems, as I understand them, have to do with issues > related to localization of OOo to Indic languages. [add your fav

Re: [native-lang] State of the Hungarian NL project

2005-12-20 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Andras Timar wrote: [snipped] > I would like to start with the best news: we released the fully > localized Hungarian OOo 2.0.1 today. Hungarian became a Sun language > this year and Sun contributed the translation of the whole helpcontent > (based on the already existing translation of the UI an

[native-lang] [Fwd: [Issue 45064] Bengali is not set for OO 2.0 Beta]

2005-11-29 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Hi, I don't really know if this is a proper way of bringing attention to an issue. But the matter at hand has been going back and forth for a long time without any resolution. Would appreciate if a step-wise process is put across so as to enable Bengali to be set for OO.o 2.0 Beta. Regards Sanka

Re: [native-lang] Include Bengali in NLC Project page.

2005-11-14 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Charles-H.Schulz wrote: > OK. What happened to Sankarshan? Since Jamil is doing nearly all of the heavy-lifting, it is best that I stay away. :) Otherwise I am doing fine a bit tied up professionally at the moment. Regards Sankarshan -- >From Untruth, lead me to the Truth, >From Darkness, Le