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 Gnubies Wed. Nov. 10, 2004 Davydd Harries on Languages in Free Software 
  
 Sorry this announcement is going out so late - it is for THIS Wednesday. 
 Please note that you must send in your name to attend this meeting even if 
 you have already sent it in for other meetings. 
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 We are pleased to announce that our speaker this month, Wednesday, 
 November 10, 2004 (that is this coming Wednesday!), will be Dafydd Harries 
 contributer to Debian GNU/Linux and Gnome and localizer (translator) for 
 Welsh.  He will be speaking on a topic that a number of you have expressed 
 interest in "Languages in Free Software." (That's human languages.)  If 
 you or somone you close to you (this IS New York City) will need or want 
 to use another language at some point, this is the talk for you, but it 
 should be interesting regardless. 
  
 Title: Languages in Free Software 
  
 Overview: 
  
 Given the huge diversity of languages spoken by people all over the 
 world, developing software that can deal with them all is a big 
 challenge. Inputting, processing and displaying multilingual text each 
 present their own difficulties. Additionally, making user interfaces 
 that can be used in multiple languages is no small task. However, free 
 software is rising to the challenge of truly global software. This talk 
 will give a taste of how it's doing that. 
  
 Biography: 
  
 Dafydd Harries is a free software advocate from Wales. His introduction 
 to the challenges of multilingual software began when he saw translating 
 GNOME into Welsh as an opportunity to contribute to free software. Since 
 then he's translated numerous free software programs, worked to make 
 others translateble and gained experience in many areas related to 
 making software usable by people all over the world. 
  
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 We are grateful to IBM for providing the space for these meetings. 
 Please see below for the security procedures required for attending 
 meetins at IBM 
  
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 Date: 
         Wednesday, November 10, 2004 
  
 Time:   6:30-7:00 General Q&A 
         7:00 Dafydd Harries 
         on 
         Languages in Free Software 
  
 Location: 
         The IBM Building 
         590 Madison Avenue 
         (57th Street and Madison Avenue) 
         (note security procedures for admittance to the building below) 
  
  
 After the meeting you can join us and speak further with our speaker at a 
 nearby Pub/Restaurant. It would be very helpful if you could also let us 
 know if you will be joining us there so that the space can be put aside 
 for us. 
  
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 recently updated: Note that you now must respond wiht your name for EACH 
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 (reachable at http://www.eskimo.com/~lo/linux.) 
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 Again, I am sorry this announcement is going out so late. 
  
 We hope to see you at the meeting. 
  
 Lyn 
 Gnubies 
  
  
  
  
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 Jay Sulzberger  
 Corresponding Secretary LXNY 
 LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. 
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