examples and success in implementing OSS in Vietnamese

Dear All,

A couple weeks ago I asked several lists about what fonts are
being used in Viet Nam. I got a lot of responses indicating that
Unicode is slow to catch on. If given time, I will try to summarise
these comments in coming days.

I have another question that is more specific and relates to progress
among the members of this list in implementing Vietnamese Open Source
operationg systems and software in Viet Nam.

It has been some time since we asked this last on these lists. Now
perhaps there may be results. I don't, for instance, see a Vietnamese
version of Open Office or localisation files on the OpenOffice.org
website. Perhaps this is naive of me, but I think we do need to have
this information presented in a way that the product can be improved
by a network of developers.

When we last met VietKey Linux it was being promoted more as a product
for sale than as genuine OpenSource. Has this changed. Was the
system tested and is it acceptable to the public?

Maybe I am out of the loop but we should be asking a lot of genuinely
important questions at this point about the value of localised OS
software.

Certainly if international organisations are going to fund projects
which use open source systems, they will need to be satisfied either
with the acceptibility of the software or of its mechanism for
improvement.

At this point, I don't have any idea where we are in real terms.
How could we achieve that so that implementers better know where they
are going, how they are going to get there and how fast?

Best, Vern

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Vern Weitzel (Mr.), Webmanager
<weitzel@undp.org.vn> or <webmanager@undp.org.vn>
United Nations Development Programme
address: 25-29 Phan Boi Chau; Ha Noi, Viet Nam
postal address:
UNDP Viet Nam One UN Plaza New York, NY 10017 USA
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