Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
I'm concerned about the Swedish language group and for that matter,
I'm following some OOo mailing lists because of my interest in spelling dictionaries and language resources. I'm a Linux/Emacs person and use OOo as little as possible. When I do, I use the English user interface.
I'm under the impression that the Swedish free software movement is still dominated by old Linux/Emacs people like me, and I don't know where the young ones are. One central person is Jonas Öberg, who published a Swedish translation of the "Getting started with OOo" book, and also organizes the annual FSCONS.org conference in Gothenburg. For some time, Lars Nooden, an American of Swedish descent, has been the contact for the Swedish OOo. He has the best intentions, but I don't hear much from him, and he doesn't appear to be that well connected with daily life in Sweden. When I tried to understand how the Swedish version of OOo is being produced, I got the impression that this is done by Sun Microsystems in Hamburg, and I didn't feel welcome to help out. Star Office is (or was) officially supported by Sun in a handful languages, including Swedish. And all that needed to be done for OOo was to replace the proprietary spelling dictionary with a free one. This is done by using Göran Andersson's DSSO.se. Problem solved. This is very different from Danish and Norwegian, which aren't supported by Sun, but have to rely entirely on voluntary efforts. Or that's my impression anyway. I guess the background is that Ericsson, a large Swedish telecom equipment maker, is traditionally a huge customer of Sun. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org
