Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 3:49 AM, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I would like to inform you this year theme of the International Mother >> Language Day 2014 : “Local languages for global citizenship: spotlight on >> science”-“Langues locales pour la citoyenneté mondiale: zoom sur la >> science”. >> >> Based on this maybe this year also we can do blog post, change OpenOffice >> logo to celebrate this day on February 21. Please let us know if you have >> any more ideas to contribute. >> > > We still have the logo that Robin designed for us last year: > > http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/IMLD_OO.png > > We could use that again. Or if we want to "refresh" it there is still time. > > Science and local language and OpenOffice -- We should think of what a > story here could be.
Quite. But I'd also think it would be nice to have a story that does what modern journalism does, only less boringly: look to specific instances where localisation has enabled the use of these tools for intellectual expression & community involvement. I think we can probably get something like that from any number of places, including Indonesia and Wales and so on. > > Regards, > > -Rob > Louis > > > >> With Best Regards, >> Khan Md. Anwarus Salam >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> 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. 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