Hallo, Das ist eine Überraschung für mich, euch (Sigrid, Berhard, Florian) zu verstehen. Leider ist mein Ausdruck in deutsch nicht so gut, deshalb werde Ich oft in english antworten. Hier stehen meine Antworten und Bemerken. (Sorry this will be in English now). Concerning the registration process, it definitely should be improved. This has been apparently set as the default setting by Sourcecast, and as I was explaining to Sigrid before, we can't do nothing about it except notifying Collabnet. What can be done, however, and what is done here and there by some leads is that when they are notified that somebody wish to register, they send him/her an email. Thus a first contact is made, and sometimes a redirection is being done to the right project. Surprizingly enough, half of the registration requests are never being answered back; my policy is to delete them after one week of silence. Anyway. :-) I'm very happy to be among all of you today. To tell you more about the "NLC" and the international influence of OpenOffice.org, here are some facts and data. There are now more than 55 Native-lang projects forming the Confederation; some are of the size of the DE projects, some are smaller or bigger. Each community is specific. In Europe and in Germany, the success of OpenOffice.org is associated with the München Rathaus, Wien, the french administration and some large deployments in Spain, UK and Norway. On a worldwide scale, these successes are being dwarved by Indian communities, namely the Tamil and Hindi NL projects: 7 millions of OpenOffice.org CDs are being distributed all over India by the local government! Of course there are other success stories and "media operations" such as what happened in Barcelona (250, 000 CDs distributed with the Barcelona daily newspaper) or Brazil. Every success happening for OOo is largely due to its local community. In this, and because of the growth of the Native-Lang Confederation, we are the strategic asset of the OpenOffice.org community. What I would like to do (Sigrid already started) is to know how I or what could do in order to help the DE community: how to make it grow, how to attract new developpers, how to ensure better users support, better "marketing", etc. Feel free to comment on this and ask your question! For the curious ones and for fun, I have put below a small list of NL projects URL (complete list is never ready, but you can get a grasp of it on the OOo homepage): http://pl.openoffice.org http://tr.openoffice.org http://hi.openoffice.org http://ta.openoffice.org http://ja.openoffice.org http://ar.openoffice.org http://he.openoffice.org http://zh.openoffice.org
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