People who have said they're interested in attending:

A Desilets
Louis-P. Huberdeau
Xavi de Pedro
A Kumaran, MS Research India
Brian McConnell


People who we should send the CFP to

(Invite them to send it to anyone they think might be interested)

1. Need to find some European (esp. Portuguese) mailing lists on topics related to translation, terminology, language training, etc...
2. Selected people at Translation Bureau — Alain
3. Authors of the various Multilingual Computing articles on collaborative stuff — Alain
4. Alain's various contacts from Aslib (ex: Anthony Hartley) — Alain
5. CIBL guy — Alain (Michel Dumais??)
6. Chris Salzberg (Seb did it) and Hanako — Alain

People already contated

• acl at aclweb.org - The Association for Computational Linguistics
• daniel at brightbyte.de: PhD thesis on how to automatically extract multilingual terminology information from Wikipedia. — AD invited him 2008-05
• a.kumaran at microsoft.com (Multilingual Systems (MLS) group in Microsoft Research India) http://research.microsoft.com/research/mls/
• These are the emails of people listed below: donna at multilingual.com, don at commonsenseadvisory.com, renato at commonsenseadvisory.com, bsmcconnell at gmail.com, henry at proz.com, andre at proz.com, jason at proz.com, herrick at gmail.com, ray.cherry at mail.com, hartz at euskalerria.org, Sabine Cretella <sabine_cretella@yahoo.it>, erik at wikimedia.org, gerard.meijssen at gmail.com, mlf at dlsi.ua.es, kepa.sarasola at ehu.es,

mark.pegrum at uwa.edu.au, freeder at mitre.org, henny at iheni.com,
mserrano at pacienteexperto.org, Sunir Shah <sunir.shah@gmail.com>,
alex at emacswiki.org, webmaster at wikisubtitles.net, ed at dotsub.com,
dwayne at translate.org.za, aelzaim at idrc.org.eg, bisharat at bisharat.net, Chris Salzberg <chris@gyaku.jp>, jito at neoteny.com, dimitris at glezos.com, outreach at globalvoicesonline.org, info at metamorphosis.org.mk,
Christophe Ducamp <christophe.ducamp@gmail.com>

1. Renato Beninatto and Don DePalma, Common Sense Advisory (see http://commonsenseadvisory.com/training/colloquium.php)
2. donna at multilingual.com edits the http://www.multilingualblog.com
3. WorldWide lexicon dude
4. Wikiwords dude
5. WikiHow guy
6. Wiktionary guys
7. http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/saltmil/en/activities/lrec2008/lrec-2008-workshop-cfp.html organizers
8. http://e-language.wikispaces.com/: mark.pegrum at uwa.edu.au
9. flo reeder
10. http://www.iheni.com/about/
11. Dr Manuel Serrano, GSMSA
12. ProZ etc. folks — Alain (Seb did it)
13. Sunir Shah
14. Alex Schroeder
15. Wikisubtitles
16. DotSub ed at dotSUB.com
17. Dwayne Bailey - http://www.translate.org.za/blogs/dwayne/, http://www.translate.org.za/blogs/dwayne/articles/cv/index.html
18. Adel El Zaim, IDRC http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/Tshwane/AdelElZaim
19. Don Osborn, http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/DonOsborn, http://www.linkedin.com/in/donosborn
20. The people at http://opentranslation.aspirationtech.org/index.php/Blogging_OTT07
21. People behind http://opentranslation.aspirationtech.org/index.php/Participating_Projects, e.g. http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/ (Transifex)
22. Global Voices Lingua people

1. People

1. Multilingual MediaWiki people
   1. Aphaia (The wikipedia translation coordinator): aphaia at gmail.com — Done (she got it from the Newsletter)
2. Jerémie et Peter (NRCan) — Done, Alain, 2008-04-12
3. OmegaWiki people,
   1. Erik Moeller, Gerard Meijssen, gerard.meijssen at gmail.com, albertoserra at ukr.net, Kim Bruning: kim at bruning.xs4all.nl — Done, Alain, 2008-04-12
   2. Dvortygirl — Posted message on her WikiHow talk page, AD, 2008-04-12.
4. Samuel Klein- OLPC wiki someone?: sj at laptop.org — Done, Alain, 2008-04-12
5. Thuan Huyhn (TraduWiki): thuan at traduwiki.org — Done, Alain, 2008-04-12
6. Fluwiki People:
   1. pogge at pogge.ca; melaniemattson at yahoo.com — Done, Alain, 2008-04-12
7. Michel Buffa — Done, Alain, 2008-04-12
8. Adam Frey: adam at wikispaces.com — Done, Alain, 2008-04-14
9. Colas Nahaboo — Alain, 2008-04-12
10. LOPLT (UQO) — Alain, 2008-04-12
11. GTLI (CNRC) — Alain, 2008-04-12
12. Youssef Bey: bey at p.u-tokyo.ac.jp — Alain, 2008-04-22
13. Tomasz Muldner (Halifax) — Alain, 20048-04-22
14. Lucas Gonzalez — Alain
15. The VTLM (Very Large TM) guy: Champollion — Alain, 2008-04-22
16. Wikisym group members in Facebook (Alain I think you can do that as an officer)
17. Wikisym announce mailing list, , Alain, 2008-04-22
18. wiki research mailing list, Alain, 2008-04-22
19. Olaf M Stefanov --, Alain, 2008-04-22
20. Artur Stec --, Alain, 2008-04-22
21. Ward Cunningham — Alain, 2008-04-22
22. People behind http://apertium.sf.net. Xavi sent email in April to project leader (he had some emails exchanged with them months ago). Mikel L. Forcada. No answer yet. I'll try again in short.
    • sent another message on May 20, morning to Mikel L. Forcada
23. Antoni Olive, from Open University of Catalonia, from the Language Processing Group: http://lpg.uoc.edu , and involved in a project to enhance Moodle to support multilingual translation of documents. Xavi sent email in April to project leader (he had some emails exchanged with them months ago). No answer yet. I'll try again in short.
    • sent another message on May 20, morning, to Antoni Olive.
24. Given CFP and shown draft of CLWE paper for Wikisym 08 to Ignasi Labastida, Creative Commons Coordinator in Spain and Catalonia. He will show that in an European Creative Commons meeting to propose using such a system to keep their CC multilingual documentation in sync, and thelling them abot the BabelWiki workshop in September. Xavi - May 30th
25. Sent conact e-mail (with CFP) to the leader of the group "Research Group about teaching and learning of languages (GREAL)", which is also the leader of the "network for promotion of educative research", on the field "Teaching Languages and Literature in Plurilingual contexts" (publicly funded with 160.000 € on 2006 = big network in Catalonia, which needs to be internationalized, handling plurilingual documents, etc.). - Xavi. email sent on May 31st.
26. Vicente J. Ruiz Jurado (vjrj) and other admins of http://ourproject.org site (gforge'd site hosting copylefted projecte everywhere in the world since 2003, at least). vjrj has been co-deveolping with people in Brazil (afaik) a new cms software writen in ruby for multilingual communities. - Xavi. email sent on July 3rd.

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