Hello all, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
> > You might build a test-case with what the Catalunyan goverment did > with softcatala. Catalunya is a region in spain (Barcelona might > sound familiar) which the native language is NOT spanish but Catalan. > The government there fund the efforts of softcatala and was able to > provide a catalan version of OOo (currently working on 2.0), Linux, > and other free software. > > http://www.softcatala.org/quisom.htm > > Usually governments might need to see other governments being > succesful sponsoring funding in-house development. The problem is > that usually politicians might not see this effects on society. I am more or less regularly in contact with Jesus Corrius from Softcatala, but he regularly complains about the lack of support from the local government. According to him the government does more noise than anything else in FLOSS matters. Softcatala is however one of the most active FLOSS organizations in Europe locally and has done a huge work (localization and marketing) for OOo since 2 years. Best, Charles. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
