From: Don Osborn (dzo@bisharat.net)
Date: Fri Jul 11 2003 - 16:20:38 EDT
I've come back to my mailbox a bit amazed to find so much mail on this
address issue. I'd have to agree with Peter's last on the topic - not to
prolong the thread (!) but to pick up on his description of Gabon as a
country "not particularly known for involvement in this industry." Is there
any likelihood of a Unicode conference being held somewhere in Africa with a
bit more going on in ICT (South Africa? Ghana?)? Might that be helpful in
Unicode "outreach" to that continent?
For that matter what about India, which I did not notice on the list of past
conference venues? It would seem that multilingual regions such as
sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia would draw particular local benefits from
Unicode, and India at least is certainly not lacking in involvement in
ICT...
Don Osborn
Bisharat.net
----- Original Message -----
From: <Peter_Constable@sil.org>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: 24th Unicode Conference - Atlanta, GA - September 3-5, 2003
[ . . . ]
>
> Sure, it's better not to assume "USA" is understood, but the criticism was
> being taken too far. The original criticism was certainly valid, but
> taking it to the extent of suggesting that people will do a lot of
> research on villages and suburbs in Gabon is, IMO, absurd. If you do a
> google search on "atlanta, ga", you'd have to wade through pages and pages
> of results related to the US city in the state of Georgia before you'd
> come close to anything else, and if somebody hasn't figured out by that
> point that the conference is probably in Atlanta, Georgia, USA rather than
> a village in a country not particularly known for involvement in this
> industry, then they're probably not intelligent enough to be involved in
> this industry anyway.
>
>
>
> - Peter
>
>
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