Re: [native-lang] Gnome.Asia 2009

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Next week, I shall be presenting (keynoting) on OpenOffice.org at
> Gnome.Asia 2009 in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). (See http://2009.gnome.asia/)
> The summit runs from 20-22 November and promises to be both interesting and
> large. The OOo community (Vietnamese) as well as others interested in the
> suite, such as government and business representatives, are slated to be
> there.
>
> A focus--major focus--is the free desktop, a topic that Stormy Peters of
> Gnome and I have discussed in a different context. It's an important topic,
> and though everyone is tired of saying, "This is the year of X," still,
> informing would-be users (esp. public and private enterprise users) of the
> existence of real alternatives that provide both the functionality they want
> as well as develop sustainable ecosystems, is of critical importance. The
> regional (and global, I hope) emergence from the economic crisis has, I
> hope, given us all the vantage of a new perspective. Or maybe we'll just
> repeat the same mistakes. But let's work to make sure we don't.
>
> One of my interests in going to Vietnam is to help firm up the community
> there and see about making it sustainable, so that it does more than
> localization. We need developers of all levels, and localizers, though
> important, cannot make a regional community self-sustaining. I'll thus be
> investigating the nature of the existing ecosystem (support, services, etc.)
> there, education options (to train users as well as contributors) and the
> good-will interest of the government and others embarked in moving to free
> software and OOo in particular.
>
> Any help and information the OOo community reading this can provide would
> be appreciated!
>
> Thanks
> Louis
>
>
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Hi Louis, do you have a strategy on getting new developers on the project
and can we know more about that?

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