Date: 2007-07-02 Category: Events

What is dotCYM?

Thursday July 19^th 2007
6.00pm - 8.00pm
Doors open 5.30pm for a light buffet and refreshments

Technium CAST
Parc Menai, Bangor

Guest speakers : Sion Jobbins from dotCYM & Dewi Bryn Jones from CMC

dotCYMis a grass-roots initiative to gain .cym as a sponsored Top Level Domain TLD for the Welsh linguistic and cultural community of interest.

The .cym TLD is the only viable and credible bid to represent the Welsh community. It will be available for websites in Welsh, partly in Welsh or of Welsh interest but in English or another language.

dotCYM promises an excellent way to promote the use of Welsh language online and of branding Welsh services and products in a readily, easy recognisable identifier for the Welsh IT sector .

Sion Jobbins, is a co-founder and Chairman of the dotCYM, Sion works in the Marketing and Access department at The National Library of Wales. He writes a regular media column for Cambria and Barn magazines and was founder and editor of Ffocws Welsh media magazine. Sif4n has worked both as a freelance journalist and television researcher and also in various capacities as a press officer. Sion graduated in History at Aberstywyth in 1989 and was Mayor of the town in 1999.

For more information: www.dotcym.org

CMC Cymdeithas Meddalwedd Cymraeg / Association of Welsh Language Software
The Association of Welsh Language Software has been created following exciting developments in the field of information technology and the Welsh language. It brings together those involved in Welsh language information technology from the private, public and voluntary sectors, in both open and closed source technologies
It encourages :

the use of the Welsh language in every sphere of information technology.

the development of original Welsh language software and language technologies

the translation and adaptation of high quality software into Welsh

the creation of high quality content in the Welsh language

the creation of training material and courses in information technology through the medium of Welsh
CMC was launched officially by Councillor Dafydd Iwan at the National Eisteddfod Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Eryri a’r Cyffiniau, 2005. CMC wishes to thank Gwynedd Council for initially sponsoring CMC.
Dewi Bryn Jones, is the current chairperson of CMC and works at the Language Technologies Unit in Canolfan Bedwyr. He is also a member of Meddal.com, a team of volunteers who localise Firefox, Thunderbird, Opera, Mandriva Linux, OpenOffice.org and other popular software into Welsh. Dewi has worked for a number of years in Finland with Nokia where he first encountered popular IT use in a non-English speaking environment and thought why not for Welsh as well. Dewi graduated in Computer Science from the University of York in 1994.

For more information : www.meddalweddcymraeg.org

This event forms part of the ITWales business developement programme and is supported by ReadSpeaker, Draig, Language Technologies Unit and Meddal.com.
The event is FREE to attend, however advance booking is required.

Click here to book your place online or e-mail ITWales@Informatics.bangor.ac.uk
Alternatively you can contact Rob or Judith at ITWales Bangor on 01248 388245