[native-lang] Gnome.Asia Summit

Hi
I've been invited to present at the Gnome.Asia Summit (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2009 
) later next month, 20-22 November. As many of you know, OOo has a  
strong team in Vietnam (and elsewhere) primarily localizing the  
application. The government, schools, universities, are also taking up  
our favourite program. I would be participating in part to further the  
local community goals and further knit our relationship to it, and to  
its primary users.

Support, training--these sort of necessary services offered by Sun as  
well as other companies--need to be further established by local  
companies working in Vietnamese, and I would hope my participation  
would serve to arrange the development of them. As well, I'd also be-- 
I guess this is primary for me--interested in working with students,  
companies, and other major sponsors and users (e.g., the gov't.) to  
see if they can (or how they can) promote the development of OOo in  
Vietnam. My argument is the same: Open source projects are communities  
and need participation to exist.

I'd like, finally, to learn the status of the Vietnamese team's work  
on the localization and related efforts. As well, any other advice or  
information I should have prior to going, should I go.

Thanks!
Louis