[wg-e] Outreach efforts

[Josh Elliott <jelliott@tucows.com>]

Ok, I have finally come up for air.  I deeply apologize for the long delay
in my activity on this list and my absence from the meeting in Cairo.

Please send me a note if you could directly contribute the report for Part
3.  From the minutes, it seems Andrew McLaughlin and YJ Park have
volunteered their efforts, but we could use at least 2 other people to
contribute to this report.

Also, I would like to ask everyone to brainstorm and submit some ideas of
how general outreach should be done (i.e., Internet conferences & meetings,
bulk emailing to domain name holders, articles and press reports, website
and/or donated banner advertising, etc.)  We can narrow and target
appropriately once we have a good list of ideas on the table.

Thanks.

Josh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-wg-e@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-e@dnso.org]On Behalf Of
> Norbert Klein
> Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 10:25 PM
> To: Dr. Nii Quaynor; wg-e@dnso.org
> Subject: RE: [wg-e] Translations
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-wg-e@dnso.org
> > [mailto:owner-wg-e@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Dr.
> > Nii Quaynor
> > Sent: Sunday, 26 March 2000 00:14
> > To: Elisabeth Porteneuve; cabell@mama-tech.com;
> > wg-e@dnso.org
> > Subject: Re: [wg-e] Translations
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> >
> > I would consider one of these indigenous African
> > languages: Swahili, hausa,
> > twi, zulu, xosa, yuroba
> >
> > nii
>
> I would basically support this idea, as a clear reminder that
> the Internet is wider than the
> European-Arab-Chinese-Japanese-Korean world.
>
> Would you be able to bring some further arguments about which
> one among those African languages to chose first - for example
> in ralation to the number of persons speaking these languages,
> and the number of Internet users expected during the next
> couple of years.
>
> On a similar line of argument, I want to suggest to consider
> also Bahasa Indonesia/Bahasa Melayu.
>
> Norbert Klein
> Open Forum of Cambodia
>