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Subject: Re: [stories] Greece, 150.000 Greek Openoffice.org CDs
distributed via newspaper
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:33:53 -0700
From: Louis Suarez-Potts <louis [ at ] openoffice [ dot ] org>
To: koumantaros Kostas <kkoum [ at ] admin [ dot ] grnet [ dot ] gr>, Michalis Kabrianis
<mk [ at ] interzone [ dot ] gr>
CC: Charles-H.Schulz <southerncross [ at ] ifrance [ dot ] com>
Dear Friends!
We absolutely applaud your work and want to work with you more closely!
We have communicated with other Greek projects to set up a Greek (EL)
Native Lang Project, or a project in Greek for Greek speakers. The
idea is to provide information, resources, and anything else that helps
further the use of OpenOffice.org among Greek speakers. Native Lang
projects mainly give OOo users a webspace and mailing lists on the Ooo
site for their language. Other key advantages include collaboration
among other Native Lang projects, and a stronger voice in the
development and documentation projects.
So, let's do it. Let's get this Native Lang project going. ELLAK is
perfectly situated to be an anchor to this project.
Best
Louis Suarez-Potts
Community Manager
OpenOffice.org
On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 05:45 AM, Dimitris Korbetis wrote:
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Ellak.gr (http://www.ellak.gr), an open-source Greek community
supported by the
Ebusiness-forum in cooperation with the Greek high circulation
newspaper "TA
NEA" has taken the initiative to distribute 150.000 CDs on 31/05/2003
containing
English and Greek versions of Openoffice.org. The CD was accompanied
with a 24
page booklet containing installation instructions and information about
Openoffice.org.
The Greek version of OpenOffice.org which was distributed on this CD
was based
on the official Greek version of Openoffice 1.0.2 which was improved
and built
by InterZone (http://www.interzone.gr). It also incorporates Greek
hyphenation
from Interzone and Greek speller from the work of Papakostas et al
(http://ispell.source.gr).
ELLAK (http://www.ellak.gr) is an open-source Greek community
supported by
the Ebusiness-forum (http://www.ebusinessforum.gr) of the Greek
Research &
Education Network (http://www.grnet.gr/). ELLAK has currentlly over
300
registered active members (volunteers). Among other tasks ELLAK
community is
promoting the use of OOo in Greece and collaborates with companies
(including
Sun Microsystems Hellas) and volunteers to localise it and translate
the
documentation to Greek.
Furthermore, in Greece there is a strong and established GNU/Linux
community in the form of a national Hellenic Linux User Group (HELLUG,
http://www.hellug.gr/) which supports open-source software users.
GNU/Linux
community (CYLUG, http://www.cylug.org/) also exists in Cyprus.
Links (in Greek):
http://www.ellak.gr/
modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=57&mode=thread&order=
0&thold=0
http://ta-nea.dolnet.gr/neaweb/neafile.pf?entypo=A&my_fyllo=17651
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