Catala

• Proposal to create a <a href"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catala">Catala</a> 'Interest Group'.

GROUP's GOALS

• Translate, verify, maintain and comunicate to the OSGeo board that all catala written content refering to the OSGeo is correct and acurate.

• Coordinate/support OS mapping activities developed in catala.

• Monitor that Local (Catalunya, Balears, Pais Valencia, Fraga?, Alguer?, Peripinya?) organizations associated to the OSGEO integrate the language in their areas' projects/activities where catala is present.
  

(ex: A Spanish based Foundation associated to the OSGEO which is hosting/supporting <a href="https://incubator.osgeo.org/process/">OSGeo</a> and/or standalone OS mapping Spanish Estate's based projects has to translate its web(and..) content to catala and accept to support it in their delegations in Catalunya, Balears and Pais Valencia.)

NEED:

'cat' subdomaining. For subfolders, 'Catala' looks to be a better choice.

• Mailing list

• cat.osgeo.org
  

The osgeo.org site is not to be a full multilingual place, if this is to be, the osgeo.org should use this subdomain for redirecting to the /index.php/newlang=cat section. This could be the ideal, but it's not what is planed/functional for this purpose maybe. So, instead of that, this subdomain could serve as a referent page(s) where to find all available Catalan information about the OSGeo.org, as ('MENTIONING CLEARLY') a referent of the other posible subregional groups(catala/<a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Catala/Pais_Valencia">PaisValencia</a>/..), the list of related ('NOT OFFICAL') ongoing projects. Basically, as a meeting place :).
If europe.osgeo.org is to be, from cat.osgeo.org we will link to the categories afecting us from there and expect a link back. Same if there's spain.osgeo.org, iberica.osgeo.org..

• Gives more confidence for colaborating to the local people/groups because shows that osgeo.org is strongly comitted to suport all languages. (Catalan is a good example)
• The group is to be more involved/caring about the global rules.(responsability and afraid to lose the subdomain)
• Facilities for easier finding/getting potential resources from Spanish Estate based Foundations/etc.. which could be asociated with the global OSGeo.org.