ELL: lists of orgs re: minority et al. languages

[Marion Gunn]

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 12:20:44 +0100
From: Marion Gunn <mgunn at ucd.ie>
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Ar 09:38 +0100 1999-03-19, scr.obh Jeff ALLEN:
>...
>If I remember correctly, I sent out e-mail messages and requests by letter
>to 100+ organizations about 2 years ago asking for info on
>electronic copies of written materials in Haitian Creole.  That would
>be a good start.  However, I wrote all of those organizations with
>my JUNO e-mail account, and the file conversion process is a real
>mess. I first need to find the directory on the back-up CD that I made
>of the hard drive and then I will need to manually go through and
>extract addresses and organization names from those files.
>This will take some time and will certainly cannot be done in the
>immediate.  However, it is a trivial task that can be done while watching
>a TV show during my free time on the weekend.
>
>Jeff

Please don't go to any extra bother, Jeff -- I SHOULD have said that my
most immediate interest is in linguistic community support structures
within the EU. I thought ELRA might have the makings of a database for
that.

The question may even be simply one of filtering the information available.
For example, see the large and very tempting range of EU-funded projects
displayed on URLs such as
<http://www.linglink.lu/hlt/events/concertation/clusters.asp>), but it is
not easy to find which old/new/contemplated projects are likely to have any
relevance at all to minority or Regional (there's another acceptable term
for you!) Languages.

It used to be easier. Until a few years ago, one could, conceivably,
consult EU office(r)s directly for good advice on advancing one's language,
without going through a third party. Now it seems (perhaps this is not
really so, but just seems so!) that the peoples of smaller linguistic
communities are now being 'encouraged' to go, instead, to paid consultants
(which is too expensive) or to charity organizations (which is too
insulting).

That is what prompted my request -- I feel a list of EU, state, semi-state,
official bodies which deal directly with people in our position would help.

With best wishes,
Marion Gunn


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