You are most welcome, Jameson. I look forward with interest to
monitoring progress re this.
All the best,
mg
Scríobh 24/08/2012 13:49, Jameson Quinn:
Thank you, Marion.
To strengthen his hand, Mr Quinn might be well advised to ask his
own National Body for accreditation as an ISO representative for
himself and some friends, so as to participate directly, as an
interest group, through normal ISO channels (I recommend this
because decisions taken in re ISO 10646 by a majority vote of
participating countries must become part of Unicode). If his
country does not already have National Body participation in ISO,
this is not such a great difficulty, as that should be easy to
arrange, especially with its own national interest at stake.
Actually, as a US citizen who's spent the last 10 years residing in
the Mayan area (Chiapas and Guatemala), I doubt I'd be an appropriate
choice as a Guatemalan representative. But I have already written to
Lolmay Garcia, the Kaqchikel linguistic community representative on
the ALMG, who, as a technically-inclined Mayan linguist, would be an
appropriate choice. I also have contacts in the Ministry of Culture, a
couple of Mayan-oriented publishing houses (Chol Samaj and Prodessa),
and the local free software movement.
(In Chiapas, my contacts are more with the Zapatistas, who might be
interested in these issues but will not be getting ISO representation
any day soon. I have no contacts with the Mayan communities in the
Yucatan peninsula, Belize, or Honduras.)
I hope this helps,
Yes, greatly.
Jameson
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