Hello Everyone, Thanks a lot for your comment and supports.
My comments follows.. With Best Regards, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Robin Fowler <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I would be happy to work on a banner. > > > > Hi Robin, that would be great! As you probably heard, the theme of > IMLD this year is "the book". I noticed you were making book-like > images in your logo explorations, with the birds. So this might be a > place where that idea (or another) could be elaborated on. > > Some quick notes on where we might use a special graphic for IMLD: > > 1. On the website, in the upper left, as a topical replacement for > the main logo. We did this during the recent holidays, for example: > > http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/christmas-logo.png > > 2. Or we could do a horizontal banner, where the "volunteers wanted" > link is today on the website. > > 3. Or we could have a square graphic (or close to square) on the top > of the right column of the homepage, above the news stories. > > If you need it, the hires version of the current logo is here: > http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpg. > > Regards, > > -Rob > > > > 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. > >> > >> > So far no Logo for IMLD yet. so the designer is free . As I am new in this community, I need someones help to point me out the resources or the wikis of this community. > >>> 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. > >> > >> > Thanks a lot for helping in the blog. Can you please tell me how to sign up for the bloggin account. I got error here: https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/getinvolved.html >>> 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 > >>> > I am the convener of the event. I was wondering if no one else can, whether I should wear the hat and present openffice in the event? Any thoughts? > >>> 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, > >> > Please let me know whom to contact with the final press release? > >>> 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. > >> > >> > I agree. Is it possible to send the video making request to the OpenOffice Community by next week? We can make an announcement by making web event like I am doing for Japan Universities: https://www.facebook.com/events/133253840175366/ > >>> 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 > >>>> > >> > > >
