-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear Charles,
Charles Schulz wrote: > -I had, some time ago, organized a vote inside the NLC in order to know > how people would feel about the opening of an english NL project. The > vote was negative. Let me repeat it so that it can be clear once and for > all: the NLC has *democratically* decided that it wouldn't change its > status of being the confederation of the communities who do not have > english as their mothertongue for OpenOffice.org . It's not that we > don't like England nor Her Majesty the Queen. It's that we like to be > the way we are. So the NLC doesn't want to have an english NL project. > Is that clear enough? I'm surprised that this is up for *democratic* vote in an overarching body. Would you think the federal population (of what ever country) should decide where in your home town to place a park and where an industrial zone vs. a residential zone? I don't think this is what democracy is all about. As the thread has discussed, a lot hangs on those issues. I find especially the user perspective, of having a product and documentation in the tongue of his choosing, the most important one. The user population should be the most important factor in deciding to put in the effort to build and maintain a native version. I'd also see the local aspect of organizing and fund raising and promoting as important. Although coming to think of it this should be independent of the language versions. I could imagine (wild speculation on my part not supported by any first hand knowledge), that the fellow in India might prefer the en_GB version over en_US. However, I hardly think he would want to donate money to promote OOo in the UK (or England). I'd say that in the majority of cases the language = country organization would work well. However, I'd suggest that local support/marketing organizations are needed for some languages, such as English, Spanish, Portuguese (seems to already exist). Kind regards, Kaj - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://conficio.blogspot.com/ ================================================ | We teach software one screencast at a time | ================================================ http://www.conficio.com/ Tel: +1 (781) 632 5773 - Fax: +1 (781) 207 9159 Conficio P.O.Box 761062, Melrose, MA 02176 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) iD8DBQFE5cXaRDUvrJRNjTARAiREAKCFH2ubXChfpdI8RsmTD73Iv1xO1gCfSPWN SWdm3heUkl2xhaqtAIIOl1s= =UzHZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
