Hi, thank you for this update. My rant was not really targeting you as you are a Level 1 native-lang project. I'm only concerned by the viablity and success of OpenOffice.org in India... Please, whenever you have news, let us know here on this list, and if you want them to be recorded and included in the official OpenOffice.org newsletter, post them on the [email protected]
Best, Charles. > Hi all, > > Sorry that I haven't made advancements in the initial > works. I got too much tangled up in my academics > (Semester exams etc). Now I got the breather and am > working above schedule and will be touching my first > milestone before April first week. Anyways I will load > the glossary sooner so that my project won't be > orphaned at any stage. > > You all should also excuse me that I will only be able > to touch OOo1.1.2 Malayalam and that too only for > linux OS in the current status of mine. But will be > continueing afterwards. > > Manu. > > --- "Charles-H.Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > 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] > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! > Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web > http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Acc�dez au courrier �lectronique de La Poste : www.laposte.net ; 3615 LAPOSTENET (0,34�/mn) ; t�l : 08 92 68 13 50 (0,34�/mn) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
