I would be happy to work on a banner. Regards, Robin
On 31 Jan 2013, at 05:23, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello Rob, >> >> Thanks a lot for your quick detailed directions. >> >> I totally agree with your opinion that International Mother Language Day, >> is a very sympathetic idea and it share several goals with OpenOffice for >> promoting mother languages. >> >> Thanks a lot for your suggestions. I would love to contribute to realize >> all of these. Here I send my questions about your suggestions. >> >> 1) Banner Design: >> For making IMLD banner for OpenOffice website is there any volunteer >> interested to contribute? How the tasks normally get distributed in this >> community? >> > > We certainly have some volunteers with skills in graphic design. Do > you have a logo for IMLD already? Or some graphical concept that we > could use? You say the theme this year is "the book". That could be > another source of ideas. > > Tasks are claimed by volunteers who are interested in doing them. So > once we have a list of proposed tasks we put them on a wiki and call > for volunteers to sign up. > > >> 2) Blog Post: >> I can write the blog, but please let me know whether it is also possible to >> write the blog in different languages. For example, we can prepare a draft >> blog in English and other language bloggers can translate that into their >> own language. That would be a very nice way to pass the message. >> > > Yes, we can do this. We did something like this in our most recent > blog post here: > https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache_openoffice_now_available_in > > I'd like to help with the blog post as well. > > >> 3) Speakers in IMLD event: >> That is a very good idea. In fact we are organizing a big IMLD event in >> Tokyo: http://internationalmotherlanguageday.com/uec/ >> >> Can you please recommend any speaker in Tokyo? >> > > We do have a volunteer, Hirano-san, in Japan, but he is in Iwate > Prefecture, not Tokyo. > >> If anyone can >> >> 3/A.Press Release: I can prepare the message of press release. But I do not >> know how to send it to every news media. Can you please suggest anyone who >> have experience on this? >> > > We can distribute broadly via our blog and website, and our large > mailing list of users. Also, Facebook, Twitter and Google+. But we > do not have a subscription to a new release service. However a more > targeted approach might work well here, where we approach specific > journalists directly, ones we know cover this area, > >> 4) Video Message: >> >> I am now interviewing many international students and teachers in Tokyo for >> our IMLD event. >> We will also release that in our website: >> www.internationalmotherlanguageday.com >> >> In the video we will explain about the importance of IMLD and history etc. >> I think this video project can be a joint effort with OpenOffice and we can >> request the community to send us their video with self interview. >> Here I send our current IMLD Video Interview questions. >> >> 1. Please introduce yourself >> 2. Tell me something interesting in your language. >> Funny phrase, sayings? >> 3.Many Japanese hate English what about you? >> 4. What is your story with English? eg. History of the learning. (hated at >> the beginning? Started liking it?) >> >> 5.What other languages you can speak? >> And why you learned those languages? >> 6. How can you preserve your language? >> 7. What is your dream? >> 8. What do you think about IMLD? >> 9. Happy IMLD in your language >> 10. What is your mother language and why you love it? >> >> 11. Can you tell us the history behind IMLD in your language?Please let me >> know if you have any suggestions to add any more questions to make it more >> relevant with OpenOffice. > > IMLD is only 3 weeks away. Ideally we would have the blog post and > materials on the website 3 or 4 days before February 21st, to give > time for journalists to pickup the story. No one wants to write a > story about "Two days ago was International Mother Language Day". > They want to write "Today is..." or "Tomorrow is...". So there is > not a lot of time remaining. > > >> 5) IMLD theme: >> The theme for International Mother Language Day 2013, promoted by UNESCO, >> is *"The Book"*. >> >> We can make some good OpenOffice slogan for using in the banner. For >> example: >> a. Love your language and use OpenOffice in your mother language. >> b. Any other ideas to adapt our message to that theme? >> > > "The Book" certainly can give direction to a logo design. > > I'd like to hear if anyone else on the mailing list has other > suggestions for a slogan. I can't think of a good one right now. But > I think the general story could be this: A language can exist purely > as a spoken language. This has occurred since the earliest times. > But a literate language, once that can be recorded and distributed and > past on through time, is critical part of a culture, and in the form > of books and documents, allow individuals and communities to project > their smaller voices to a broader audience. Today, in the 21st > century, the computer has taken over for the pen in many cases. But > where any pen can be used to write any language, not every computer > can write every language. Unless a computer is taught to support a > language, with fonts, with software, with spell checkers, etc., then > people are locked out of the means to express themselves digitally in > their mother tongue. Commercial software, focused on the highest > returns on investment, often targets the officially-sanctioned > languages in industrialized nations, and neglects minority, regional > and endangered languages, as not commercially relevant. This is where > open source software, and projects like Apache OpenOffice, can help. > Since we are a volunteer-led non-profit charity, we are not concerned > merely with profit. We're concerned with doing good, the social > return on our labors. > > Regards, > > -Rob > > >> Thanks a lot and I am looking forward for your directions. >> >> >> With Best Regards, >> Khan Md. Anwarus Salam >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> This is Khan, Convener of International Mother Language Day >>>> Celebration. I am new in OpenOffice Community but I would like to take >>> the >>>> leadership for celebrating IMLD together with OpenOffice. Please let me >>>> know who can help me and how for this purpose. >>>> >>> >>> Hello Khan, >>> >>> Thank you for writing to us. We are the Apache OpenOffice project. >>> We are a volunteer-led open source project and we maintain and publish >>> free office suite software called Apache OpenOffice. We are part of >>> the Apache Software Foundation, a public charity with the mission to >>> publish free software for anyone to use. >>> >>> OpenOffice has existed since 2000 and over 100 million users have >>> installed our software. We are one of the most popular and familiar >>> open source products. >>> >>> We describe the "Public Service Mission" of OpenOffice on our website >>> here: http://openoffice.apache.org/mission.html >>> >>> As you can see, we aim for cultural and linguistic diversity. This >>> includes the support of regional and minority languages that >>> commercial software vendors often neglect. As an all-volunteer >>> project we are not constrained by what is "profitable" in a commercial >>> sense. Our only limit is the enthusiasm of our volunteers. >>> >>> When I heard about International Mother Language Day, I thought that >>> this was a very sympathetic idea and that we shared several goals and >>> a similar outlook on the importance of promoting mother languages. >>> >>> So what could we do in OpenOffice to support IMLD? Some things that >>> we can do include: >>> >>> 1) Use our project's outreach via our website and social media, to >>> promote IMLD. Our website receives millions of visits each week. We >>> could, for example, put an IMLD banner on our website during the week >>> of IMLD. >>> >>> 2) We could do a blog post on our blog to talk about IMLD 2013, and >>> the importance for open source software to offer wide support for >>> regional and minority languages. >>> >>> 3) Depending on location, we might be able to provide a speaker at an >>> IMLD event. Or we could provide quote for a press release. >>> >>> 4) We could interview an expert involved in IMLD about the event and >>> the intersection of these concerns and software. >>> >>> These are just some ideas, brainstorming. Perhaps you have some other >>> thoughts. >>> >>> Finally, one thing I noticed is that past IMLD's had a theme. It >>> would be good to know what the theme will be in 2013, so we can adapt >>> our message to that theme. >>> >>> I am looking forward to your reply. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> -Rob Weir, Apache OpenOffice Project Management Committee >>> >>> >>>> With Best Regards, >>>> Khan Md. Anwarus Salam >>>> Convener >>>> International Mother Language Day Celebration in Japan >>>> http://www.internationalmotherlanguageday.com/ >>>> Phone: +81-8041803667 >>>> Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/motherlanguageday >>> >
