Hi Timo,

>> I will send you an email with a password to allow you to update the wiki.

>may this have slipped from your todo-list?

My mistake, I sent it to myself ... not to bright of me :) ... I'll resend

>Is it possible with the forum engine to have a hierarchical forum structure? 

I don't think so ... not without some programming at least (to keep the counts, etc).

>Otherwise we could move "established" languages to the top level (probably with a common prefix so that they all stand next to each other).

Take a look at the second "message board" I just created on the forum web page ... see if that looks OK.

I can move the contents of the current "other languages" forum to the new message board (note we will lose the views, rating and thread counts with such a move).

or we can look at integrating them into the main forum (WebGUI allows arbitrary ordering of the forums on a message board, so no prefix would be required)

Ken 

>Take a look at the second "message board" I just created on the forum web page ... see if that looks OK.

looks perfect. 

Hello Ken McLean!

Thanks for adding a new section "German speech files."  I am planning to create some text fragments as author, so that there are no copyright problems.

I found a German translation of the GPL license:

http://www.gnu.de/documents/gpl-3.0.de.html

It is version 3 of the license.  Until now, I have used the version 2 of the GPL license.  From now on, I am planning to use only the version 3.  So my future submissions will be GPL version 3.  
Please tell me if you want me to submit under the GPL version 2.  I would prefer GPL version 3, because I think it provides a better protection of the open source principle.
So I will include in my German zip-files a German and an English version of the GPL version 3.

Maybe I will talk to the people from the Simon project, but I think at the moment I will stick to Voxforge. VoxForge is exactly the project I have been looking for and there couldn't be a better project.  The programmers need free speech examples, I can try to support them by submitting some speech in the English and in the German language.

Thanks for creating a trac site and a subversion site for the German language.  Thanks for sending me a password.

OK, you can think about something like "de.voxforge.org" - at the moment, it might be a little bit too early for something like that.  But keep in mind: a lot of German people may understand the English language, but prefer to read their own mother language.  I could help you with the translation, but let's wait some weeks or months.  I am new to the VoxForge project, I don't know the details at the moment, so we shouldn't be too fast.  I think the section "German speech files" is a pretty good start.

Hi nsh,

Thanks for the hyperlinks.  I think that they should come to VoxForge, not we to them.  I *know* that Voxforge does have the right concept.  GPL is the way to go. Only a free license like GPL has a chance to compete against commercial products like DNS 9.

Hi Ralph, 

>I would prefer GPL version 3, because I think it provides a better protection of the open source principle.  So I will include in my German zip-files a German and an English version of the GPL version 3.

I agree.  I just have not had a chance to implement GPL version 3 on the site.

>Maybe I will talk to the people from the Simon project, but I think at the moment I will stick to Voxforge. [...] The programmers need free speech examples, I can try to support them by submitting some speech in the English and in the German language.

That is ok.  The Simon project is currently working at creating German triphone acoustic models.  Their work will provide benefits to you and the German sub-project on VoxForge.  And, as you say, you audio submissions will benefit them.

Ken