<font face="georgia,serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><font face="georgia,serif">Just to make it clear that our offer from last year still stands:</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif">Mark<br></font><div><font face="georgia,serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia,serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:48, Mark Davis ⌛ </span><span dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><<a href="mailto:mark@macchiato.com">mark@macchiato.com</a>></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> wrote:<br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The officers of the Unicode Consortium (</span><a href="http://unicode.org" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">http://unicode.org</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">) have discussed this issue, and are interested in exploring hosting the TZ efforts. Aside from the Unicode projects, we currently also support other independent efforts (</span><a href="http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">, </span><a href="http://www.unicode.org/udhr/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">http://www.unicode.org/udhr/</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">). Hosting the TZ project would provide for mailing list hosting, code distribution, source code repository (SVN) if desired, etc., web pages, etc. -- presuming that the functioning of the TZ group would continue basically as it does now.<br>
<br>If there is interest in something along these lines, we can discuss more specifics of what this would look like and then pass a proposal by our board of directors.<br></span><font color="#888888"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br clear="all">
Mark</span></font></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">...</span></div></span></font></div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">
<div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Speaking to "> I don't think I'd want </span><span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Unicode</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> specifying any of:"</span></span></div>
</span></font></div></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br>
</span></span></div></span></font></div></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">We'd be </span><span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">hosting</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> the TZ group; the process the group uses and its output would be up to the group. (The only thing we'd need is for the group to provide a description of whatever process </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">is</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">being followed.)</span></span></div>
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Mark</font></div></div></span></font><font face="georgia, serif"><br><i>— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —</i></font><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 03:07, Stephen Colebourne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scolebourne@joda.org">scolebourne@joda.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On 27 June 2010 18:15, Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]<br>
<div class="im"><<a href="mailto:olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov">olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> It seems to have been overly ambitious to find both a new host and a new maintainter for the time<br>
> zone stuff at the same time. So, one thing at a time. Who has insights on a workable options<br>
> for new host(s) for the mailing list and the software distribution?<br>
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</div></div>I would still maintain that the CLDR environment is by far the best<br>
fit for this data. It manages all data to do with cultures and is used<br>
by all the vendors who also use the tzdata. I also believe they<br>
offered to accept us last time this was discussed.<br>
<br>
Stephen<br>
Spec-lead JSR-310<br>
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