I've come back to my mailbox a bit amazed to find so much mail on this address issue. I'd have to agree with Peter's last on the topic - not to prolong the thread (!) but to pick up on his description of Gabon as a country "not particularly known for involvement in this industry." Is there any likelihood of a Unicode conference being held somewhere in Africa with a bit more going on in ICT (South Africa? Ghana?)? Might that be helpful in Unicode "outreach" to that continent?
For that matter what about India, which I did not notice on the list of past conference venues? It would seem that multilingual regions such as sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia would draw particular local benefits from Unicode, and India at least is certainly not lacking in involvement in ICT... Don Osborn Bisharat.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 6:57 PM Subject: Re: 24th Unicode Conference - Atlanta, GA - September 3-5, 2003 [ . . . ] > > Sure, it's better not to assume "USA" is understood, but the criticism was > being taken too far. The original criticism was certainly valid, but > taking it to the extent of suggesting that people will do a lot of > research on villages and suburbs in Gabon is, IMO, absurd. If you do a > google search on "atlanta, ga", you'd have to wade through pages and pages > of results related to the US city in the state of Georgia before you'd > come close to anything else, and if somebody hasn't figured out by that > point that the conference is probably in Atlanta, Georgia, USA rather than > a village in a country not particularly known for involvement in this > industry, then they're probably not intelligent enough to be involved in > this industry anyway. > > > > - Peter > >
