Great. Here is Khan's draft along with some information on AOO language support:
https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=international_mother_language_day_2014 If there are any corrections please get them ASAP. I'd like to go live with in 4 hours or so. -Rob On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam <kman...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here is my blog draft:On International Mother Language Day the UN's > Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and UN agencies > participate in events that promote linguistic and cultural diversity. They > also encourage people to maintain their knowledge of their mother language > while learning and using more than one language. Governments and > non-governmental > organizations may use the day to announce policies to encourage language > learning and support. You can visit > http://www.internationalmotherlanguageday.com/ to know about worldwide > #IMLD events. > The Apache OpenOffice project is proud to help commemorate International > Mother Language Day on February 21. Read more about why this day is > important, how OpenOffice supports linguistic diversity, and how you can > help.Why February 21 was chosen? > > February 21st was declared as International Mother Language > Day<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mother_Language_Day>(IMLD) > by UNESCO. IMLD originated as the international recognition of > Language Movement Day, which has been commemorated in Bangladesh (formerly > East Pakistan) since 1952, when a number of Dhaka university students were > killed by the Pakistani police and army in Dhaka during the Bengali > Language Movement <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_Language_Movement>. > This is the only event where people gave their lives to preserve the > independence of using their mother language. > To remember them there is a monument named Language Martyr's Monument (Shahid > Minar <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaheed_Minar,_Dhaka>) in Dhaka > University, Bangladesh. Every year more than a million people give flowers > there. This is a big event in Bangladesh. Many foreigners visit Bangladesh > just to experience the way the Bangladeshi people give respect to those > brave hearts. Every town of Bangladesh has a Language Martyr's Monument, > where local people give flowers. A Language Martyr's Monument is also > built in Ikebukoro park of Tokyo, Japan. There are also Language Martyr's > Monument in USA, UK, Italy and many other countries. Please think about > your Mother Language not only on February 21 but also on other days. > > > With Best Regards, > Khan Md. Anwarus Salam > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org>wrote: > >> On 17/02/2014 Khan Md. Anwarus Salam wrote: >> >>> Like last year, I can write a blog post about IMLD and the history behind >>> it. >>> >> >> We are now very close to the deadline, so if you can write something we >> can look into publishing it, even though I'm not sure whether there will be >> enough time to complete it with some information about the OpenOffice >> language support. If someone can help with that, we could have a nice post. >> >> Regards, >> Andrea. >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org
