This is the first draft of a newsletter that will be sent to all wiki-translation members early march. Please help me write it.

Alain

Title: Great Progress on the Cross Lingual Wiki Engine Project (CLWE)

Well, there has been a flury of activity around the CLWE project over that last couple of months:

• http://wiki-translation.com/Cross+Lingual+Wiki+Engine+Project

Here's a quick report of recent significant results

First useful version available

Louis-Philippe Huberdeau has been busily implementing features for collaborative translation in TikiWiki (with significant help from Alain Désilets, Sébastien Paquet, Xavier de Pedro Puente, Nelson Ko and of course, Marc Laporte). We are really happy with how it's turning out, and feel that this first version is already useful as is.

Rick Sapir filmed a demo of the central features:

• http://wiki-translation.com/CLWE+Demo+Screencast

Marc Laporte to address UN and EU organisations at JIAMCATT

In February, Alain Désilets, Marc Laporte and Louis-Philippe Huberdeau met with Olaf Michael Stefanov, a newly retired former senior officer at the UN translation department. Olaf told us that many UN and EU agencies are looking for ways to allow volunteers to collaboratively translate material related to their business. He secured an invitation for Marc to speak at JIAMCATT, a Marc, by now you know more about this, so please fill in the details.

Planning to beta test CLWE features at Mozilla foundation

Nelson, can you write a short blurb here?

A screencast of "staging and approval" would be nice too :-)