[i18n-discuss] Solaris Teacher Traning and Sun University Tour- Dalian

[Jim Grisanzio]

W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> http://blogs.sun.com/duanst/entry/solaris_teacher_training_and_university2
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> The pictures look great! Looks like there are a lot of interests in Solaris in Dalian city!
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> The City of Dalian is uniquely attractive to those of us living in Hawaii because of the huge size of its Japanese-speaking population. One of my neighbors runs a call-center in Dalian to serve his clients living in Japan. Some of our local IP companies have thought about jointly doing Japanese software developments in Dalian.
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> This unique multi-lingual advantage is one of the reasons that the central government (of China) designs to make Dalian a major "software outsourcing center" (or the "Bangladesh of China") to serve the northeast Asia region. It is thus not surprising that there is a "Software College" (软件学院) in the "Dalian University of Foreign Languages" (大连外国语学). See:
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> http://it.dlufl.edu.cn/
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> Because of the similarly excellent multi-lingual capabilities of Solaris, I believe it will be very mutually beneficial for Dalian's city officials, professors, students, and entrepreneurs to be aware of the existence of this powerful, mature, extremely scalable, and open-sourced operating system. Hopefully, your two-day training session will be the incipient step of a subsequent process that will eventually make Dalian City a Solaris powerhouse.
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> I am sure you're aware that the OpenSolaris LiveCD is scheduled to come out next month. Perhaps we can take advantage of this occasion to start growing a grass-root movement among those aspiring students in Dalian. :-)
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Yes, this is amazing work in China. And the Japanese connection in that 
area is very interesting. Very few even know about it. :)

Jim
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