Re: Confirming call for Friday 17 Nov

(adding Richard and Alolita)

Abhijit,

    Thanks for the comments.

Team,

     Attached is the version of the letter I want to put in front of 
Jeff for signature on Monday.  Let me know if you have any other tuning 
suggestions.

Cheers,

Alan


On 11/17/2017 07:13, Abhijit Dutta अभिजित दत्ता wrote:
> ​​
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am suggesting a couple of changes not so much in the content, but in 
> the tone of the letter. This is because the government always has to 
> put "common people" first. ( In America the term is "the American 
> people". )
>
> The suggestions are intended to give the "government", not so much her 
> because she knows it anyway, the perspective that W3C puts "serving 
> the people" before commercial interests. As a formal communication, 
> that is an institutional relationship and not between individuals. Of 
> course, serving the people will be the basis for the commercial 
> interest. We should suggest it explicitly not implicitly.
>
> Please consider them. I have intentionally not edited the document, 
> but I make the suggestions here : Removals suggested in Red and 
> Additions in Blue.
>
> 1. Please use the term "Mrs." instead of "Madame" for Mrs. Swaran Lata.
> 2. Consider using the salutation "Dear", since it changes the tone of 
> the rest of the letter as one of co-operation. :-)
> Edit 3.
> "I am sending this letter to inform you that we have a new program 
> that we are launching in India to address the needs of non-English 
> speaking Indian users."
> Edit 4. (Spell-check on future)
> Edit 5. "With this evolution we believe we need to drive this from a 
> more commercial approach so we have asked Ms. Alolita Sharma to Chair 
> this new Program. We believe a commercial approach will result in the 
> expansion of Indian users who are served in the language of their 
> preference. The results are likely to be more meaningful and enduring."
> Edit 6. "Mr. Dutta’s will work closely with the W3C India Office led 
> by Mr. Mahesh Kulkarni to make sure that we include as many W3C 
> Members as possible while hopefully attracting new Members to the 
> work. He will work pro bono and will be an invited expert/contributor."
> Edit 7. "I hope that we will see (We solicit your) continued 
> participation in this new work by you and your team at TDIL. Any 
> success will be as much yours if we all meet our goals of serving the 
> unknown Indian user."
>
> These are for your consideration only. Please feel welcome to use them 
> or not.
>
> Sincerely,
> Abhijit
> *( PS : Parimal, my mobile number is 99997.68347 )*
>
>
>

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