Ubuntu Zimbabwe - Questions

[Neil Coetzer]

Hi Daniel,

That does help a lot. Thanks very much.

Neil

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 10:22 +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote:
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> Neil Coetzer schrieb:
> > 1. Where face-to-face meetings are concerned, is there somewhere in
> > particular on the wiki where we could/should post meeting minutes, or
> > should those just be included in our LoCo wiki pages?
> 
> If you have a LoCo mailing list, it'd make sense to send them there
> and/or have them on the wiki.
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZimbabweTeam/Meetings/Minutes or maybe on
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs)
> 
> 
> > 2. We have set up a local repository mirror in liaison with a local ISP.
> > How would we go about getting zw.archive.ubuntu.com to redirect to our
> > local repo (archive.ubuntu.org.zw)? Obviously we would like to do this
> > so that local users do not have to change any other settings once their
> > location is set to Zimbabwe. I would have imagined there would be some
> > reference to this on the wiki but perhaps I have just missed it?
> 
> Best to talk to mirrors at ubuntu.com about it.
> 
> 
> > 3. We have a number of spoken languages in the country, but the team has
> > collectively decided to keep British English as our default, since
> > pretty much all computer users here are English speakers. I have noticed
> > though, that when English (Zimbabwe) is selected, spell check in Open
> > Office etc. does not seem to work as there is no official language pack
> > for Zimbabwe. What we would like to do, if at all possible, is to have
> > British English dictionaries "replicated" for English Zimbabwe, since
> > they would be the same. I have no idea how to go about this though, so
> > would appreciate any pointers.
> 
> Can you file a bug on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug and
> subscribe arnegoetje to it?
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Have a nice day,
>  Daniel
> 
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