Re: [native-lang] Idea: Weekly IRC conf.

2005-02-22 Thread Daniel Carrera
Excellent, we can use that. I thought about a 2-3 week basis, but I felt it provided too little continuity, it's too spread out. And if you miss one, the next one isn't for such a long time. I think it's better to make them weekly, at least at first. And just have the understanding that there

Re: [native-lang] Idea: Weekly IRC conf.

2005-02-22 Thread Charles-H.Schulz
Hi, the thing with a weekly approach is that it's really demanding. I remember the times when we had conf calls and IRC meetings in the SO/OOo group, it wasn't easy to gather many people because it was, well hard to get in sync with so many people. But let's try it the way you said. Who wants to

Re: [native-lang] Idea: Weekly IRC conf.

2005-02-22 Thread Hristo Simenov Hristov
I missed what is the date for IRC meeting. I'm busy at Saturday. I'll go to the conference about Localization and I'll present our project. On Tuesday 22 February 2005 15:33, Daniel Carrera wrote: Excellent, we can use that. I thought about a 2-3 week basis, but I felt it provided too little

Re: [native-lang] Idea: Weekly IRC conf.

2005-02-22 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Daniel, Thanks for this idea, this is a great one. comments in line, Daniel Carrera wrote: Excellent, we can use that. I thought about a 2-3 week basis, but I felt it provided too little continuity, it's too spread out. And if you miss one, the next one isn't for such a long time. I think

Re: [native-lang] Idea: Weekly IRC conf.

2005-02-22 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 14:06, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: Hi, the thing with a weekly approach is that it's really demanding. I remember the times when we had conf calls and IRC meetings in the SO/OOo group, it wasn't easy to gather many people because it was, well hard to get in sync with so

Re: [native-lang] Idea: Weekly IRC conf.

2005-02-22 Thread Daniel Carrera
I'll volunteer. I will make it any time at all from Friday to Sunday :-) I prefer 15:00-06:00 UTC. But I can be flexible. Cheers, Daniel. On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:06:09PM +0100, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: Hi, the thing with a weekly approach is that it's really demanding. I remember the

Re: [native-lang] Idea: Weekly IRC conf.

2005-02-22 Thread Pavel Janík
From: Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:44:21 -0500 What I said was that the NLC would benefit much from regular IRC confs. The NLC has a large number of people, mostly volunteers, who have pretty much the same goals, and don't get to talk to each

[native-lang] Proposal for Irish native-lang project

2005-02-22 Thread Kevin Patrick Scannell
I'd like to propose a native-lang project for the Irish language. Irish is, along with English, an official language of the Republic of Ireland. It is spoken as the everyday language in certain parts of Ireland, mostly along the west coast. Several hundred thousand people (in all parts of the

Re: [native-lang] Idea: Weekly IRC conf.

2005-02-22 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 19:18, Pavel Janík wrote: From: Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:44:21 -0500 What I said was that the NLC would benefit much from regular IRC confs. The NLC has a large number of people, mostly volunteers, who have pretty

Re: [native-lang] Idea: Weekly IRC conf.

2005-02-22 Thread Daniel Carrera
Pavel Janík wrote: You have described the OOo project here, not NLC... To say the same using different wording: Your description also applies to OOo, thus again: why limit to NLC only? I can't fanthom why you think I am excluding people outside NLC. I made every effort to say otherwise.

Re: [native-lang] Idea: Weekly IRC conf.

2005-02-22 Thread Daniel Carrera
Ian Lynch wrote: Maybe he's thinking inclusion rather than exclusion? Yes, I'm being inclusive. The NLC is the most inclusive place at OOo. The NLC is not limited to any given topic. A talk could be about development, it could be about marketing, it could be about a cool new software for

Re: [native-lang] Proposal for Irish native-lang project

2005-02-22 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Kevin, thank you for your proposal. If I understood youwell, you'd like to create a Level 1 Native-Lang project. In this case, you are welcome to the NLC. Don't forget that at some point, will love to see Level 1 projects eventually become level 2, hence providing user support, marketing,

Re: [native-lang] Idea: Weekly IRC conf.

2005-02-22 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Pavel, Pavel Jank wrote: From: Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:44:21 -0500 What I said was that the NLC would benefit much from regular IRC confs. The NLC has a large number of people, mostly volunteers, who have pretty much the same goals, and

Re: [native-lang] Proposal for Irish native-lang project

2005-02-22 Thread Pavel Janík
From: Kevin Patrick Scannell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:50:21 -0600 Hi Kevin, Other helpful data: ISO-639-1 code for Irish is ga. My OpenOffice.org username is cpos. I've signed the JCA. thanks! Can you please provide me the complete data for our page of

Re: [native-lang] Proposal for Irish native-lang project

2005-02-22 Thread Darragh Sherwin
Hi Kevin, Kevin Patrick Scannell wrote: I'd like to propose a native-lang project for the Irish language. Irish is, along with English, an official language of the Republic of Ireland. It is spoken as the everyday language in certain parts of Ireland, mostly along the west coast. Several

Re: [native-lang] Idea: Weekly IRC conf.

2005-02-22 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Hi all, Daniel Carrera wrote: Speaker 1: Daniel Carrera -- INREACH, Building an active community. March 4-6 (weekend) I prefer: Japan Time: Between 00:00 March 6 and 00:00 March 7. - UTC: Between 15:00 March 5 and 15:00 March 6. :) Cheers, khirano

Re: [native-lang] Proposal for Irish native-lang project

2005-02-22 Thread Kevin Patrick Scannell
On 23:42 Tue 22 Feb , Pavel Janík wrote: thanks! Can you please provide me the complete data for our page of supported languages (http://l10n.openoffice.org/languages.html)? Hi Pavel, We're already there -- I think you added me last year when I first posted to the l10n list. Thanks

Re: [native-lang] Proposal for Irish native-lang project

2005-02-22 Thread Kevin Patrick Scannell
On 23:07 Tue 22 Feb , Darragh Sherwin wrote: +1, excellent. Where can people get involved in helping out currently and what work is required? Hi Darragh - I don't have any kind of web site set up yet for the OpenOffice.org translation; hopefully in a week or two ga.openoffice.org