Re: About International Mother Language Day
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 Dayhttp://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.orgwrote: 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
Re: About International Mother Language Day
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
Re: About International Mother Language Day
Like last year, I can write a blog post about IMLD and the history behind it. With Best Regards, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 4:57 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.orgwrote: On 07/02/2014 Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: Rob Weir wrote: We still have the logo that Robin designed for us last year: http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/IMLD_OO.png We could use that again. Or if we want to refresh it there is still time. Science and local language and OpenOffice -- We should think of what a story here could be. Quite. But I'd also think it would be nice to have a story that does what modern journalism does, only less boringly: look to specific instances where localisation has enabled the use of these tools for intellectual expression community involvement. Since it is in a few days, I believe we should simply do what we can. As for the logo, we can keep Robin's 2013 version (unless Robin has time to update it). As for the post, if we don't have time (or volunteers) for anything that is strictly related to this year's theme, we can always use a generic statement about the support of native languages in OpenOffice. Should you need some figures you can check Pootle at https://translate.apache.org/or just ask. Regards, Andrea.
Re: About International Mother Language Day
about you? 4. What is your story with English? eg. History of the learning. (hated at the beginning? Started liking it?) 5.What other languages you can speak? And why you learned those languages? 6. How can you preserve your language? 7. What is your dream? 8. What do you think about IMLD? 9. Happy IMLD in your language 10. What is your mother language and why you love it? 11. Can you tell us the history behind IMLD in your language?Please let me know if you have any suggestions to add any more questions to make it more relevant with OpenOffice. IMLD is only 3 weeks away. Ideally we would have the blog post and materials on the website 3 or 4 days before February 21st, to give time for journalists to pickup the story. No one wants to write a story about Two days ago was International Mother Language Day. They want to write Today is... or Tomorrow isSo there is not a lot of time remaining. I agree. Is it possible to send the video making request to the OpenOffice Community by next week? We can make an announcement by making web event like I am doing for Japan Universities: https://www.facebook.com/events/133253840175366/ 5) IMLD theme: The theme for International Mother Language Day 2013, promoted by UNESCO, is *The Book*. We can make some good OpenOffice slogan for using in the banner. For example: a. Love your language and use OpenOffice in your mother language. b. Any other ideas to adapt our message to that theme? The Book certainly can give direction to a logo design. I'd like to hear if anyone else on the mailing list has other suggestions for a slogan. I can't think of a good one right now. But I think the general story could be this: A language can exist purely as a spoken language. This has occurred since the earliest times. But a literate language, once that can be recorded and distributed and past on through time, is critical part of a culture, and in the form of books and documents, allow individuals and communities to project their smaller voices to a broader audience. Today, in the 21st century, the computer has taken over for the pen in many cases. But where any pen can be used to write any language, not every computer can write every language. Unless a computer is taught to support a language, with fonts, with software, with spell checkers, etc., then people are locked out of the means to express themselves digitally in their mother tongue. Commercial software, focused on the highest returns on investment, often targets the officially-sanctioned languages in industrialized nations, and neglects minority, regional and endangered languages, as not commercially relevant. This is where open source software, and projects like Apache OpenOffice, can help. Since we are a volunteer-led non-profit charity, we are not concerned merely with profit. We're concerned with doing good, the social return on our labors. Regards, -Rob Thanks a lot and I am looking forward for your directions. With Best Regards, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam kman...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, This is Khan, Convener of International Mother Language Day Celebration. I am new in OpenOffice Community but I would like to take the leadership for celebrating IMLD together with OpenOffice. Please let me know who can help me and how for this purpose. Hello Khan, Thank you for writing to us. We are the Apache OpenOffice project. We are a volunteer-led open source project and we maintain and publish free office suite software called Apache OpenOffice. We are part of the Apache Software Foundation, a public charity with the mission to publish free software for anyone to use. OpenOffice has existed since 2000 and over 100 million users have installed our software. We are one of the most popular and familiar open source products. We describe the Public Service Mission of OpenOffice on our website here: http://openoffice.apache.org/mission.html As you can see, we aim for cultural and linguistic diversity. This includes the support of regional and minority languages that commercial software vendors often neglect. As an all-volunteer project we are not constrained by what is profitable in a commercial sense. Our only limit is the enthusiasm of our volunteers. When I heard about International Mother Language Day, I thought that this was a very sympathetic idea and that we shared several goals and a similar outlook on the importance of promoting mother languages. So what could we do in OpenOffice to support IMLD? Some things that we can do include: 1) Use our project's outreach via our website and social media, to promote IMLD. Our website receives millions of visits each week
Re: About International Mother Language Day
isSo there is not a lot of time remaining. 5) IMLD theme: The theme for International Mother Language Day 2013, promoted by UNESCO, is *The Book*. We can make some good OpenOffice slogan for using in the banner. For example: a. Love your language and use OpenOffice in your mother language. b. Any other ideas to adapt our message to that theme? The Book certainly can give direction to a logo design. I'd like to hear if anyone else on the mailing list has other suggestions for a slogan. I can't think of a good one right now. But I think the general story could be this: A language can exist purely as a spoken language. This has occurred since the earliest times. But a literate language, once that can be recorded and distributed and past on through time, is critical part of a culture, and in the form of books and documents, allow individuals and communities to project their smaller voices to a broader audience. Today, in the 21st century, the computer has taken over for the pen in many cases. But where any pen can be used to write any language, not every computer can write every language. Unless a computer is taught to support a language, with fonts, with software, with spell checkers, etc., then people are locked out of the means to express themselves digitally in their mother tongue. Commercial software, focused on the highest returns on investment, often targets the officially-sanctioned languages in industrialized nations, and neglects minority, regional and endangered languages, as not commercially relevant. This is where open source software, and projects like Apache OpenOffice, can help. Since we are a volunteer-led non-profit charity, we are not concerned merely with profit. We're concerned with doing good, the social return on our labors. Regards, -Rob Thanks a lot and I am looking forward for your directions. With Best Regards, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam kman...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, This is Khan, Convener of International Mother Language Day Celebration. I am new in OpenOffice Community but I would like to take the leadership for celebrating IMLD together with OpenOffice. Please let me know who can help me and how for this purpose. Hello Khan, Thank you for writing to us. We are the Apache OpenOffice project. We are a volunteer-led open source project and we maintain and publish free office suite software called Apache OpenOffice. We are part of the Apache Software Foundation, a public charity with the mission to publish free software for anyone to use. OpenOffice has existed since 2000 and over 100 million users have installed our software. We are one of the most popular and familiar open source products. We describe the Public Service Mission of OpenOffice on our website here: http://openoffice.apache.org/mission.html As you can see, we aim for cultural and linguistic diversity. This includes the support of regional and minority languages that commercial software vendors often neglect. As an all-volunteer project we are not constrained by what is profitable in a commercial sense. Our only limit is the enthusiasm of our volunteers. When I heard about International Mother Language Day, I thought that this was a very sympathetic idea and that we shared several goals and a similar outlook on the importance of promoting mother languages. So what could we do in OpenOffice to support IMLD? Some things that we can do include: 1) Use our project's outreach via our website and social media, to promote IMLD. Our website receives millions of visits each week. We could, for example, put an IMLD banner on our website during the week of IMLD. 2) We could do a blog post on our blog to talk about IMLD 2013, and the importance for open source software to offer wide support for regional and minority languages. 3) Depending on location, we might be able to provide a speaker at an IMLD event. Or we could provide quote for a press release. 4) We could interview an expert involved in IMLD about the event and the intersection of these concerns and software. These are just some ideas, brainstorming. Perhaps you have some other thoughts. Finally, one thing I noticed is that past IMLD's had a theme. It would be good to know what the theme will be in 2013, so we can adapt our message to that theme. I am looking forward to your reply. Regards, -Rob Weir, Apache OpenOffice Project Management Committee With Best Regards, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam Convener International Mother Language Day Celebration in Japan http://www.internationalmotherlanguageday.com/ Phone: +81-8041803667 Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/motherlanguageday
Re: About International Mother Language Day
. Today, in the 21st century, the computer has taken over for the pen in many cases. But where any pen can be used to write any language, not every computer can write every language. Unless a computer is taught to support a language, with fonts, with software, with spell checkers, etc., then people are locked out of the means to express themselves digitally in their mother tongue. Commercial software, focused on the highest returns on investment, often targets the officially-sanctioned languages in industrialized nations, and neglects minority, regional and endangered languages, as not commercially relevant. This is where open source software, and projects like Apache OpenOffice, can help. Since we are a volunteer-led non-profit charity, we are not concerned merely with profit. We're concerned with doing good, the social return on our labors. Regards, -Rob Thanks a lot and I am looking forward for your directions. With Best Regards, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam kman...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, This is Khan, Convener of International Mother Language Day Celebration. I am new in OpenOffice Community but I would like to take the leadership for celebrating IMLD together with OpenOffice. Please let me know who can help me and how for this purpose. Hello Khan, Thank you for writing to us. We are the Apache OpenOffice project. We are a volunteer-led open source project and we maintain and publish free office suite software called Apache OpenOffice. We are part of the Apache Software Foundation, a public charity with the mission to publish free software for anyone to use. OpenOffice has existed since 2000 and over 100 million users have installed our software. We are one of the most popular and familiar open source products. We describe the Public Service Mission of OpenOffice on our website here: http://openoffice.apache.org/mission.html As you can see, we aim for cultural and linguistic diversity. This includes the support of regional and minority languages that commercial software vendors often neglect. As an all-volunteer project we are not constrained by what is profitable in a commercial sense. Our only limit is the enthusiasm of our volunteers. When I heard about International Mother Language Day, I thought that this was a very sympathetic idea and that we shared several goals and a similar outlook on the importance of promoting mother languages. So what could we do in OpenOffice to support IMLD? Some things that we can do include: 1) Use our project's outreach via our website and social media, to promote IMLD. Our website receives millions of visits each week. We could, for example, put an IMLD banner on our website during the week of IMLD. 2) We could do a blog post on our blog to talk about IMLD 2013, and the importance for open source software to offer wide support for regional and minority languages. 3) Depending on location, we might be able to provide a speaker at an IMLD event. Or we could provide quote for a press release. 4) We could interview an expert involved in IMLD about the event and the intersection of these concerns and software. These are just some ideas, brainstorming. Perhaps you have some other thoughts. Finally, one thing I noticed is that past IMLD's had a theme. It would be good to know what the theme will be in 2013, so we can adapt our message to that theme. I am looking forward to your reply. Regards, -Rob Weir, Apache OpenOffice Project Management Committee With Best Regards, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam Convener International Mother Language Day Celebration in Japan http://www.internationalmotherlanguageday.com/ Phone: +81-8041803667 Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/motherlanguageday
Re: About International Mother Language Day
. Unless a computer is taught to support a language, with fonts, with software, with spell checkers, etc., then people are locked out of the means to express themselves digitally in their mother tongue. Commercial software, focused on the highest returns on investment, often targets the officially-sanctioned languages in industrialized nations, and neglects minority, regional and endangered languages, as not commercially relevant. This is where open source software, and projects like Apache OpenOffice, can help. Since we are a volunteer-led non-profit charity, we are not concerned merely with profit. We're concerned with doing good, the social return on our labors. Regards, -Rob Thanks a lot and I am looking forward for your directions. With Best Regards, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam kman...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, This is Khan, Convener of International Mother Language Day Celebration. I am new in OpenOffice Community but I would like to take the leadership for celebrating IMLD together with OpenOffice. Please let me know who can help me and how for this purpose. Hello Khan, Thank you for writing to us. We are the Apache OpenOffice project. We are a volunteer-led open source project and we maintain and publish free office suite software called Apache OpenOffice. We are part of the Apache Software Foundation, a public charity with the mission to publish free software for anyone to use. OpenOffice has existed since 2000 and over 100 million users have installed our software. We are one of the most popular and familiar open source products. We describe the Public Service Mission of OpenOffice on our website here: http://openoffice.apache.org/mission.html As you can see, we aim for cultural and linguistic diversity. This includes the support of regional and minority languages that commercial software vendors often neglect. As an all-volunteer project we are not constrained by what is profitable in a commercial sense. Our only limit is the enthusiasm of our volunteers. When I heard about International Mother Language Day, I thought that this was a very sympathetic idea and that we shared several goals and a similar outlook on the importance of promoting mother languages. So what could we do in OpenOffice to support IMLD? Some things that we can do include: 1) Use our project's outreach via our website and social media, to promote IMLD. Our website receives millions of visits each week. We could, for example, put an IMLD banner on our website during the week of IMLD. 2) We could do a blog post on our blog to talk about IMLD 2013, and the importance for open source software to offer wide support for regional and minority languages. 3) Depending on location, we might be able to provide a speaker at an IMLD event. Or we could provide quote for a press release. 4) We could interview an expert involved in IMLD about the event and the intersection of these concerns and software. These are just some ideas, brainstorming. Perhaps you have some other thoughts. Finally, one thing I noticed is that past IMLD's had a theme. It would be good to know what the theme will be in 2013, so we can adapt our message to that theme. I am looking forward to your reply. Regards, -Rob Weir, Apache OpenOffice Project Management Committee With Best Regards, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam Convener International Mother Language Day Celebration in Japan http://www.internationalmotherlanguageday.com/ Phone: +81-8041803667 Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/motherlanguageday
