Local Chapters, Translation, etc

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

What do you think of starting a mailing list for those interested
in translation of foundation pages (ie. PR), setting up local sites
(ie. Toru), or establishing connections with regional organizations
(ie. FOSSGIS, Geolivre, etc)?

I am thinking of something like international-discuss at board.osgeo.org.

I am seeing alot of interest in setting addressing the international
outreach issue.   However, I don't think we as a board can do this topic
justice in the near term with everything else going on.  What I would
like is to have a venue where folks interested in this area could discuss
and do some planning, perhaps coming back to the board with recommendations.

Addressing questions like:
  o Organizing translation of foundation pages.
  o Addressing local "chapters" or resources (ie. ja.osgeo.org?)
  o Addressing what sort of affiliation or outreach to regional organizations
    makes sense.
  o Raising issues with the internationalization support in foundation
    software projects.

If we want to do this we could either designated it properly as a "committee"
or just set it up as a mailing list with no special designation.  If we
establish it as a proper committee I think we would need to provide it with
some sort of mandate and it would be expected to come up with somewhat
formal recommendations to the board.

If you guys are supportive, I'll write up a motion in the wiki based on
the above, and similar to web masters group.

Best regards,
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