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From: Charles-H. SCHULZ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 09:17:43 GMT
Subject: [Marketing] On the EN Native-Lang Project
To: dev@marketing.openoffice.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ryan, Jacqueline, Chris, Daniel, all,
First of all, I'd like to welcome back Ryan Singer among us.
I'm glad
he's back and I'm sure he's up to many great things.
Let me apologize for this new thread that continues the I'm
back and
I'm glad to get busy
I'd like to answer a particular point of Ryan's comments (ex
clusively on
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I'd like to say that after some thinking and a discussion wi
th Louis, I
realized, (a while after Louis did though) that it was indee
d time to
create a real English Native-Lang project. This assessment m
ay sound
odd, but the reason why the Native-Lang Confederation has ne
ver allowed
any English speaking community before has historical roots:
among them,
there was a fear that any English project would have overthr
own the
other native-lang projects by its size, and there was also t
he very
concept of the Native-Lang that postured itself as a Catego
ry of
projects and communities made for those who did not practice
English as
their mothertongue.
Today things have changed; the Native-Lang Confederation has
grown (a
lot) and the historical reasons that have led to the creatio
n of the
NLC have also changed, at least in part.
On the other side, there is a growing desire among the Engli
sh speaking
community to be represented as such, in its cultural and lin
guistic
aspects. After all, we only do write and speak in English he
re by
convention; not because our community only speaks ENglish.
This is why an EN Native-Lang Project that would be countr
y-agnostic
could be releavant today; one EN project doesn't mean one OO
o english
build. It can mean several (one British EN build, one EN_US
or EN_CA
builds for instance), and I'm sure that such an EN project w
ould benefit
to the Native-English speaking community, the Native-Lang Co
nfederation,
and OOo in general. And such a project would be a living evi
dence of the
incredible cultural wealth that spans the English-speaking a
nd the
Anglo-Saxon world.
In the end, I'd like to thank Jacqueline for having pointed
out the
necessary information about the NLC to Ryan.
Ryan, I'm waiting for your official proposal whenever you're
ready.
Regards,
Charles-H.Schulz.
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