> From: "Philippe Verdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is that a contribution of the Unicode Consortium to the OpenI18n.org > project (former li18nux.org, maintained with most help from the > FSF), or a decision to make the OpenI18n.org project be more open by > pushing it to a more visible standard?
More on the latter, but slightly different. We believe it would be good for both opensource community and commercial IT industry that we transfer (at least a part of) the project to Unicode Consortium, after hearing the concerns on difficulty of some commercial companies to join the project due to the strong perception of OpenI18N.org as opensource/Linux advocates, even though CLDR project is not specifically bound to Linux. We hope this transfer would gain further participations from wider audiences. Regarding confusions, I have to say it is anticipated, since the project is still in transition(for example, OpenI18N.org side has not been finished necessary procedure to finalize this, so OpenI18N.org does not have a press release statement ready yet - this announcement is a little too early), I guess it will all be sorted out as time goes by. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],OpenI18N.org,li18nux.org,unicode.org,sun.com} Chair, OpenI18N.org/The Free Standards Group http://www.OpenI18N.org Architect/Sr. Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc, USA eFAX: 509-693-8356
