Position Statement
"History may yet judge the real catalysts of the new economy to be not the Internet, as widely assumed, but rather the gathering force of Linux and open-source software.? - Seattle Times, May 2003
I believe this quote is true and that it is OpenI18N Working Group and the Free Standards Group that has the considerable responsibility of ensuring open-source software continues to be developed in an environment of world-wide collaborative effort that the open-source community has come to represent.
Much as the IETF and IAB have been the custodians of the development of the Internet, I see my role within OpenI18N is to ensure that open standards continue to address the needs of the global community and in particular developing nations.
Internationalization is most effective when
introduced from the start of a project and OpenI18N and the Free Standards Group has the opportunity and responsibility to ensure Internationalization requirements are addressed at the standards level.
Biography
Paul Gampe -- Director of Engineering - Red Hat Asia Pacific
As Director of Engineering for Red Hat Asia-Pacific, Paul Gampe manages the
development and software localization teams that deliver native language products and services for Red Hat. Paul has managed the engineering team that, over the last few years, has added Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese language support to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Prior to Red Hat, Gampe served as technical operations manager for APNIC, one of the three regional registries that govern the distribution of Internet resources (such as IP addresses). Gampe oversaw the redeployment and expansion of the Asia-wide registry infrastructure, and contributed to the IPv6 and Multi-lingual DNS working groups of
the IETF. Gampe joined APNIC in 1997 after serving as General Manager of TWICS, the first public ISP in Japan. Gampe received his Bachelor of
Information Technology degree from the University of Queensland, Australia.
Architecture
