On 12/12/2006 Charles-H.Schulz wrote: ... > a status update on your project would be of course very nice!
Here you are. This is a status update for the Italian Native-Lang project (PLIO) in the period September-December 2006. 1: New lead Riccardo Losselli stepped down from his role as Italian NL project lead and the Italian OOo community elected Andrea Pescetti in his place. The "it" project thus has two leads now, i.e., Davide Dozza and Andrea Pescetti. 2: Localized OOo version Back in October, the Italian NL project ran full QA tests on both the 2.0.4-SUN builds and the 2.0.4-PLIO packages and approved both. The PLIO packages consisted in the SUN binaries with Italian dictionaries added (they did not differ in anything else from SUN binaries: only packaging had been affected, since we performed only a repackaging). The PLIO version, distributed through SourceForge, was a huge success, with 303,000 downloads in 59 days and a general user satisfaction; we wish we could compare these figures to the 2.0.4-SUN downloads, but we don't know where to find them. For version 2.1 we only approved the SUN builds (for Windows, Linux and MacOSX) and we are considering to distribute our extension as, guess what, an extension. We are using Bouncer for OOo 2.1 downloads from the Italian web site and we hope that it will be possible to have download statistics, which are very useful to our marketing project. 3: Documentation Several volunteers coordinated by Alessandro Cattelan translated the "Getting Started Guide" into Italian. The work is undergoing the final revision and we expect it to be available in a few weeks. A methodology, which involves common translation memories, is under development. Thanks to common approaches and guidelines for all document translations, we expect an increase of quality from such methodology. 4: Web site reorganization Francesca Beatrice Cice and Andrea Sanavia revamped our web site; it now features a better structure and up-to-date news. The redesign is not yet complete. 5: Lobbying activity Davide Dozza contributed to a regional law proposal promoting open standards and open source solutions in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, North-Eastern Italy. Both Davide Dozza and Andrea Pescetti participate in "Politica del Software", a working group aiming at promotion of open formats and open source software for the public administration. Many other ODF/OOo lobbying activities on public institutions are in the pipe. 6: Marketing and Media Coverage Italo Vignoli sent out press releases on a regular basis. Besides a wide coverage on Internet news and technology web sites, we were featured in a national TV program (RaiTre) and in two major national newspapers (Il Sole 24 Ore, Repubblica). Moreover, we joined the Italian Linux Day 2006 by developing a unified OOo presentation that was used in several cities. 7: Association An Italian association is coming to life, as the Italian NL community is going to constitute itself as a formal association in Italy. We spent the last six months to establish it and we expect to launch it at the beginning of 2007. Davide Dozza - Andrea Pescetti Italian NL Project Leads. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
