Re: Common Locale Data Repository Project

From: Hideki Hiura - hiura@openi18n.org (hiura@Sun.COM)
Date: Thu Apr 22 2004 - 20:14:25 EDT

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    > From: "Philippe Verdy" <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr>
    > Is that a contribution of the Unicode Consortium to the OpenI18n.org
    > project (former li18nux.org, maintained with most help from the
    > FSF), or a decision to make the OpenI18n.org project be more open by
    > pushing it to a more visible standard?

    More on the latter, but slightly different. We believe it would be
    good for both opensource community and commercial IT industry that we
    transfer (at least a part of) the project to Unicode Consortium, after
    hearing the concerns on difficulty of some commercial companies to
    join the project due to the strong perception of OpenI18N.org as
    opensource/Linux advocates, even though CLDR project is not
    specifically bound to Linux.

    We hope this transfer would gain further participations from wider
    audiences.

    Regarding confusions, I have to say it is anticipated, since the project
    is still in transition(for example, OpenI18N.org side has not been
    finished necessary procedure to finalize this, so OpenI18N.org does
    not have a press release statement ready yet - this announcement is a
    little too early), I guess it will all be sorted out as time goes by.

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    hiura@{freestandards.org,OpenI18N.org,li18nux.org,unicode.org,sun.com} 
    Chair, OpenI18N.org/The Free Standards Group          http://www.OpenI18N.org
    Architect/Sr. Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc, USA   eFAX: 509-693-8356
    


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