Hello Patrick :) On 29/08/2007, at 1:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello. My name is Patrick Farrelly, i am a 17 year old linuxdeveloper/contributor from Ho Chi Minh City. According to open office'swebsite you are the person to talk to regarding pushing open office inVietnam. I was wandering if you are currently active in the project, and anyways i might be able to contribute to its spread here.
Patrick, I'm happy to meet you. Yes, I am one of the people involved in translating, releasing and supporting OpenOffice.org in Vietnamese. We are a small but enthusiastic group. :)
I've Cc'd this message to our l10n mailing list (which is pretty quiet). Are you comfortable communicating in Vietnamese? If not, we'll just continue in English.
If you are comfortable in Vietnamese, there is more information about our project on our site [1].
Our first official release was OpenOffice.org 2.1. We're about to release OpenOffice.org 2.3, which will have a lot of minor vocabulary and keyboard shortcut fixes for consistency. We have the interface completely translated, and the Help about 25% translated, plus some translated Howtos [2]. OpenOffice.org 2.3 has a number of exciting new features.
We're very keen to promote the use of OpenOffice.org Việt among Vietnamese-speaking people, especially in Vietnam.
You can contribute to the spread of OpenOffice.org in Vietnam by, firstly, running it on your own machine(s) and recommending it to people. Show it to everyone you know. If you don't use it in Vietnamese yourself, you can maintain a second install in Vietnamese to show people, and point out that OpenOffice.org is available in over 90 languages, so everyone can use the language which suits them.
Talk to everyone you know. Tell them how good OpenOffice.org is, how you get everything you need for free, and no legal hassles; how easy it is to migrate from MS Office, and to handle any kind of file. See the Marketing pages [3].
You can point people to the main OpenOffice.org site, and to our Vietnamese project site. All they have to do is click on Download, grab the file they want, and they're in business!
We can supply you with fliers and notices you can put up, and possibly also with CDs you could give away.
We're working mostly through the LUGs, Uni's and business networks to promote OpenOffice.org. Are you involved with any local organizations or businesses? Do you know people who are involved?
The best way to promote something is by word of mouth, but examples and free samples also help. ;)
We hope to have a Portable OpenOffice.org soon, so people will be able to install it on a USB key, then just plug it into any computer they use, including public computers. That should make it a lot easier for people at work, school/uni or in an Internet café. (We already have a Portable OpenOffice.org Aqua for OSX, in testing. I'm running it in Vietnamese. ;) )
Tell us a bit more about yourself, your open-source involvement and your situation in Vietnam. Then we can suggest the best ways for you to get involved. :)
And of course, you're very welcome to join the OpenOffice.org project and participate in any part of it! We always need coders, testers, doc writers, graphics people and people willing to attend events and spread the word!
BTW, we're planning a Regional OpenOffice.org Conference for Asia in the next few months. Maybe you could attend?
We appreciate you getting in touch. It's positive acts like these which create change. :)
from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN [1] http://vi.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectHomePlease also point people to the main Vietnamese Free-Software Translation Team project site, for information about other Vietnamese- translated software:
http://vnoss.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=projects:l10n [2] http://vi.openoffice.org./about-documentation.html [3] http://marketing.openoffice.org/
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