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Attended UNESCO conference on language policies. many good discussions on: | Attended UNESCO conference on language policies. many good discussions on: | ||
* what constitutes a language | * methodologies used in lingistic studies to determine what constitutes a language | ||
* sources of data about language use, viability and support among governments | * sources of data about language use, viability and support among governments | ||
* how language is closely tied to identity | * how language is closely tied to identity | ||
* how the internet is influencing language and vis-versa. | * how the internet is influencing language and vis-versa. | ||
Revision as of 14:52, 1 June 2011
Meeting Details
- Time and location: Wednesday, 9 AM PST, conf bridge 206
- irc.mozilla.org #l10n-drivers for back-channel
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Previous Action Items
axel: etherpad interview questions- stas: have the newsgroups set up
stas: harvey & verbatimstas: set up wiki/l10n/meetingschofmann/stas: bug 654152 (all-locales)Axel/oduinn- all: world ready slides review
Meeting Notes
- Notetaker:
- Attendees:
Action Items
Roundtable
tarend
Pike
stas
gandalf
Pascal
Milos
Kadir
Tomcat
chofmann
Attended UNESCO conference on language policies. many good discussions on:
- methodologies used in lingistic studies to determine what constitutes a language
- sources of data about language use, viability and support among governments
- how language is closely tied to identity
- how the internet is influencing language and vis-versa.
also many new contacts for out reach on building new locale teams.
- http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/cultural-diversity/languages-and-multilingualism/endangered-languages/news/dynamic-content-single-view-news/news/towards_unesco_guidelines_on_language_policies/
- http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp
- http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/en/statistics.html