Re: [native-lang] Opening of an Eurasian Languages Native-Lang Group

Hi all,

Sorry for the delay, I was traveling,
David Fraser wrote:
> Charles-H.Schulz wrote:
> 
>> Hello David,
>>
>> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 16:26 +0200, David Fraser wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Hi Charles
>>>
>>> It's great to see another native-language group.
>>> To me, however, it seems like this announcement lacks substance 
>>> simply because there is no website or mailing list associated with 
>>> the group. Even if such a list exists and is limited to the list 
>>> members, it would be great if there was a public archive and maybe a 
>>> website with news - how else can we be excited about the groups 
>>> progress? :-)
>>>
>>>   
>>
>> I understand your point. Actually, these groups are so informal that
>> they're not supposed to even need an official mailing list; and besides,
>> each NL project is autonomous and can get out of these groups at any
>> time. However, we could envision, by popular demand, to add a new page 
>> inside
>> the NLC site explaining what are the groups and adding new MLs. But even
>> in this case, these MLs would be pure "liaison" lists. The main one,
>> that these groups can use BTW, is dev@native-lang.
>>
> OK, if they're going to communicate on dev@native-lang that's cool as I 
> can read it :-)

First, I'm happy to see this native-lang group too :)
I'm answering here just to give my point of view. I plainly agree with 
Charles, these groups are formed to ease communication. Imho, adding new 
mailing lists would puzzle this communication, we are the NLC first, 
aren't we :)

However, I think that having a news page about our groups or communities 
would be great. I'm often asked about what's happening in the other 
groups or about the OOo representativeness in other countries and it's a 
bit difficult to answer (and I don't know who have done this page 
http://www.openoffice.org/files/documents/148/1599/NewsCtr.html, may be 
Erwin ? but this is really needed infos and thanks to the author :). Lot 
of news are published in the newsletter (thanks to Deepankar) but it's 
sometimes difficult to follow.

We have a communication issue, I think that most of the time it's 
because we have so much to do that we don't have any time left to 
communicate, but this is really important. There is currently 53 NL 
projects and I must say that I don't know what is happening in most of 
them. This is not only about what's happening, but also about the 
difficulties, the motivations, the disappointments or the willing of the 
communities.

I have realized that in France, advertising the community is almost as 
important than advertising the product, companies are really interested 
by our economy/ecology/ecosystem. I would like to know if it's the same 
elsewhere.
Last week I've been asked about OOo news in the world because a large 
group will meet MS next week and so this group need feedback to 
demonstrate how our NLC and our product is becoming popular (this is how 
I discovered the NewsCtr page). That was really difficult for me to 
answer apart for some project and I wish that we will be able soon to 
all take the time to speak about what we achieve on a daily basis 
through our NLC.

Kind regards
Sophie


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