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Attended UNESCO conference on language policies.  many good discussions on what constitutes a language, sources of data about language use 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.
Attended UNESCO conference on language policies.  many good discussions on:
* 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.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.ethnologue.com/web.asp

Revision as of 14:47, 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 & verbatim
  • stas: set up wiki/l10n/meetings
  • chofmann/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:

  • 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.