[ale] OT: [dev] localizing of Klingon

[Keith Hopkins]

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...
-- 
Lost in Tokyo,
  Keith

>>From: Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at earthlink.net>
>>> To: dev at openoffice.org
>>> Cc: Sam Hiser <shiser at cloud9.net>, Louis Suarez-Potts <louis at openoffice.org>
>>> Subject: [dev] localizing of Klingon
>>> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:31:09 -0800
>>> 
>>> Hi, I'm just joining this list.  Have been on the discuss and marketing 
>>> lists for about a year.  Sam Hiser "volunteered" me to head up the 
>>> Klingon localization project.    :-)    I have found some "native" 
>>> speakers of Klingon (they call themselves Klingonists).  I told them 
>>> that the native speakers of the langauge normally localize the 
>>> language.  However, since Klingon is really a relatively small 
>>> "nation", we are going to need help with the tech side of the 
>>> localization project.
>>> 
>>> We have already found some volunteers among the Klingonists for the 
>>> language side.  Now we really need someone who is technologically 
>>> proficient to provide guidance and organize the tech side.  I am 
>>> envisioning my role as a marketer, meaning that I will try to get 
>>> Klingonists involved, and spark interest in the project in the world 
>>> outside OOo and Klingonists, but I am a simple end user, who really is 
>>> not proficient enough in computers to do more than that.  
>>> 
>>> Anyone interested?