Re: [native-lang] Finnish Native-Lang group awarded

[Louis Suarez-Potts]

Marko,


On 2006-02-03, at 16:15 , Marko Gronroos wrote:

I'm pleased to announce that the Finnish Native-Lang group was awarded as the Linux Influence 2005 (lit. Linux Maker) in Finland on wednesday, for the translation of OpenOffice.org 2.0. Especially the quality of the translations

was praised.

Congratulations!!

As mentioned on IRC, I'll put a blurb on the homepage about this. It's good news for your project, for the entire project :-)

The award is given annually to a company, association, or individual, who has advanced the position of Linux or the Linux user community significantly. The award was given the first time in 2002. The award was given by Finnish Linux User's Grup (FLUG) and the award committee consisted of representatives from

various Open Source organisations in Finland.


then. Last year, he assembled a team of 15 translators who did most of
translation updates for OpenOffice 2.0. He has also done much of the

process.

I would like to thank especially Asmo Koskinen, who founded our Native-Lang project and community in 2003, and been a leading figure in our efforts since communications with different parties and been very helpful in the translation

Would Asmo and his team be willing to be interviewed?

Some short questions for a short article. I'd be particularly interested in how they managed the work, what tools used, what skills employed, what difficulties, what suggestions they have.

The press release is available (in Finnish) at:

  http://www.flug.fi/tiedotteet/2006/tiedote-linuxtekija2005.pdf

Would it be possible to translate this to, oh, English? :-)

Finnish Debian community in the picture, as they got another award.


over two years.


integration of Open Source Software.

If you want to know more, I can give more details.

Well, there's a picture of me, Harri Pitkänen (who integrated a Finnish spellchecker to OOo 2.0), and Asmo Koskinen. There's also people from the In my speech of thanks, I thanked the most important members of the Finnish Native-Lang community, and also Pavel Janik, who has been doing our builds for The award was presented in "Open Source 2006" seminar, which had speakers such as the CEO of Novell Finland. Speakers from the Finnish OOo community included Asmo Koskinen, who gave a presentation about the adoption of OOo and Linux in the parish of Kokkola in central Finland (about 50 OOo installations), and Pasi Dahlsted from Finnish Association of People with Mobility Disabilities (about 1100 OOo installations), who gave a management level lecture about the

Yep.

Best,

Louis

-- Marko Grönroos, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://www.iki.fi/magi/)

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