<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Meikal Mumin</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:meikal.mumin@uni-koeln.de">meikal.mumin@uni-koeln.de</a>></span><br>Date: 8 June 2016 at 23:53<br>Subject: Transfer of List of Codepoints to Google Docs<br>To: <a href="mailto:LatinGP@icann.org">LatinGP@icann.org</a><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>since Chris has left us I thought it was a good moment to try and transfer our work into a form which is better suited for collaboration. I for one was having problems with the Word files, which were very slow and kept crashing for me, plus keeping the versions apart was confusing to me.</div><div><br></div><div>Accordingly, when I found some time to continue the review of the list <span style="background-color:yellow"><span>codepoints</span></span> I had promised earlier, I took the time to convert it into a Google Docs Spreadsheets documents, which is like an Excel file but stored in the cloud and it can be edited in the browser. All changes are tracked and saved automatically, so ideally we can stop worrying about version control.</div><div><br></div><div>I am still in the progress of walking through the list of <span style="background-color:yellow"><span>codepoints</span></span>. However I'm sharing it with you now so we can continue collaborating on it while I go on with my own review. We can always export the work from their back to an Excel or any other spreadsheet file (including all earlier versions under automatic version control) should the need arise. It offers nearly all other features of Excel, including features such as comments and highlights we all know from Word.</div><div><br></div><div>You can access the document from any browser using this link:</div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FX5XEuqU2g5-pVr6rWLRhE3KiE4JxT8Kd70I6jlMSBU/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:yellow"><span>https</span></span>://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FX5XEuqU2g5-pVr6rWLRhE3KiE4JxT8Kd70I6jlMSBU/edit?<span style="background-color:yellow"><span>usp</span></span>=sharing</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>If you have any Google Account it would be good to access the document while you are logged in, so we could all understand who made comments and changes, however it is not necessary for access. Please let me know if you have any Google (Apps) account so I could invited you directly to edit and take ownership of the document (currently it is associated with my own Google account) so it will become accessible to all <span>LGP</span> members and so we could share the administration of our repository of documents also in the future.</div><div><br></div><div>Similarly and again for the sake of simplicity of collaboration, I plan to transfer the draft for the actual proposal from Word into a Google Docs Text document.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope this will prove helpful and enable us to collaborate easier and make some progress, even during our transitioning period from one chair to another (set of) chairs.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll look forward to any comments either on the conversion process or the documents themselves.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:yellow"><span>Meikal</span></span></div></div>
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