I applaud any european initiative in this field. There are a couple of issues that affect us Europeans more directly, like languages and localization. In the English-dominated world people tend to forget the importance of e.g. special characters, as they don't deal with this issue everyday (so I can't blame them). I have found people in the Dutch educational market that are willing to give Squeak a chance in schools. But in this market language localization is a prerequisite. But the same issue of language is probably going to form a barrier for me participating in a German or French Squeak community, as my German is very basic and my French non-existent. I guess this applies to more Europeans. Language keeps deviding Europe! I doubt if currently there are enough European Squeakers to justify a per country approach to a community initiative (thought I do hope I'm wrong!). So i would strongly advocate for one multinational community, otherwise we won't reach the critical mass. As a consequence, the language used should be English. Of course I would personally prefer good old Dutch, but I'm willing to sacrifice that to gain a stronger European Squeak movement.
Rudi Angela
On dinsdag, maart 19, 2002, at 02:39 , Bergel Alexandre wrote:
So we (squea-ev) will work on setting this up here in .de, Hannes has started thinking about a swiss organisation.
I will really try to set up one in France. I know in Germany there is some constraints as taxes or others. In France non-profit organisation are free of that.
More to come...
Regards, Alexandre
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 02:17:50PM +0100, Marcus Denker wrote:
Hi!
Here a short summary of the discussion in english:
After my Announcement of our intend to form a german non-profit organization to help squeak development, Hannes raised the Question if it wouldn't be better to set up an european organisation.
Cees pointed out that having a german orgnasisation wouldn't make a european one impossible, but should be even thought of as a first step in that direction (bottom up approach).
We discussed this at the Bern SqueakNIC, and we came to the conclusion that "bottom up" is really the way to go: Setting up local Squeak organsisations that work together.
So we (squea-ev) will work on setting this up here in .de, Hannes has started thinking about a swiss organisation.
Marcus
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:16:26PM +0100, Cees de Groot wrote:
Zusammenfassung: ich schliesse mich Hannes an, wobei ich fuer 'bottom up' waehle (also Squeak e.V. fuer Deutschland gruenden aber darauf achten dass
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e.V. ihre Aktivitaeten auf Europa erweitern kann, Juramaessig undso...)
Hallo!
Wir (Hannes Hirzel, Markus Gaelli, Alexandre Bergel und ich) haben am Wochenende in Bern darueber diskutiert. Und unser Ergebnis war, das "bottom up" wirklich besser ist.
Wir werden also zuerst lokale Vereinigungen bilden (Deutschland, Schweiz, evtl. Frankreich) und uns dann in einem zweiten Schritt Gedanken ueber eine europaeische Struktur machen (etwa einen europaischen Verein, bei dem alle anderen Vereine Mitglieder sind).
Das Vereinsrecht in Deutschland und der Schweiz scheint sehr aehnlich zu sein, wir koennen also schon z.B. bei der Aufstellung der Vereinsziele eng zusammenarbeiten.
Marcus
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