Hello Louis, thanks for this report. More comments inline. Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
> > So, here are some suggestions (apologies for the note-like quality): > > * Create a regional Nordic user/developer/promotion group; include > NO, SV, DA, FI, possibly. The idea is to promote development and use > and to work by strength in numbers. We need to coordinate with Sun, > IBM, others. I met with an IBM representative (two) and they > expressed interest in this, too, in the sense of contributing in some > way. Of course interest is not the same as doing.... I'm all in favor of that and I had previously started a discussion on this, so a big +1 for the Nordic languages group. > > * Schools: work with profs and students, esp. in colleges to get them > using and developing OOo; build curricula, etc. The newly proposed > Education project can help here, but we really need to be aggressive > in bringing students in as developers, not just in teaching them how > to use OOo. Hopefully Sophie's new Education project will be able to help here... ;-) Also, the Norwegian project has some very valuable experience in this sector. > > * interneships. The idea was raised of meritorious students getting > internships to study at Hamburg or even simply study OOo à la Google > Summer of Code. I mentioned this idea to Peter Lange of Sun, and he > responded positively. I have to follow up on it, but if the Hamburg > developers are agreeable, it should work, and not just for Danish > students. +1 > > * Extensions. There is a lot of interest in Laurent Godard's > Extensions project. In part b/c the economy of ancillary projects is > well-developed; one cannot edit MS' source for Office but can create > extensions. So... focus on nimbus of infrastructure for extenions > development; again, not specific to DA or Nordic regions but again, > important. Again, this can be done per NLC project. sure. > > * Local to the Danish project: Greenland/Faroe localizations: > aboriginal languages. I need contacts in the Greenland government, I > daresay, to get this going. It could also work with Canadian > aboriginal drives. After all, incredible as it may seem, Canada and > Denmark share a border and cultures, at least among the aboriginals > ;-) Along these lines, I've initiated some correspondence (several > exchanges) with researchers working on codifying aboriginal languages > in Canada and the US but especially Canada. One person in particular > was very interested but I need to follow up. The idea is that OOo > should be there for all. We have no North American (or South) > aboriginal tongues speaking for OpenOffice.org. That's got to change. Yes, this is so far the area where the NLC/we/I have not been very successful. If you have any contacts there I can help. I'm also covering some other languages in the southern hemisphere... > > Søren also created a wiki focused on DA issues. It would be useful, > perhaps for other projects to follow suit.... > > See http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Da.openoffice.org Cool! Thanks, Charles. > > Best, > > Louis > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
