Hello, it's been quite some time that I'm looking to contact Bhupesh Koli and Shikha Pallai. The Hindi Native-Lang project seems to be dead (http://hi.openoffice.org) and nothing indicates that the Hindi mailing lists have moved elsewhere, like on the Bharateeyaoo web site. Worse, I can't contact the two Hindi leads. If nothing changes we will close the Hindi community web site. Maybe you could tell me what' going on? Looking at the Bharateeyaoo web site I realized that all the Indic communities were talking to each other, but without really informing the NLC, or even anybody in OpenOffice.org at large. What we don't want is walled garden projects, ghost projects who have "a page" here, on OOo, that is used like an advertisement but nothing more. We want you to be much more active and committed to OOo, and use our tools, web space, and lists. Today, I had a mail from a Hindi speaking person who had been looking for a Hindi build of OpenOffice.org . He went on to the hi.openoffice.org, was surprized to find that no new version had been released since 2003, and asked for guidance on the mailing lists. Nobody replied. This is, in my point of view, very, very bad. This is how we will end up turning people to MS Office again. What I'm asking here are two things:
-avoid walled gardens. If we (Louis, I) feel that a project keeps quiet, doesn't provide users support on any available mailing list of OOo or doesn't link to any external mailing list, doesn't communicate with us, doesn't upload content on the site, doesn't update it, in short, doesn't its job of representing its language and culture, we will dismantle it and close it. -make people and projects work together. The Indic native-language projects should work together, wether they are part pf Bharateeyaoo or not, and they should do it here. Regardless of their state of advancement, they should cooperate, mutualize their ressources when possible, communicate between themselves and with the other NLC projects and help the other projects. We can't tolerate this state of things anymore. We can't accept to have native-lang projects not doing their jobs, an this, regardless of the ressources they have. If there wasn't enough ressources in the first place, then it was not worth opening a project. Native-Lang projects are serious business. I hope you will rise up to these expectations. Regards, Charles-H. Schulz, Lead of the Native-Lang Confederation, OpenOffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
