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Sayamindu Dasgupta |
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[Freebangfont-devel] [Fwd: Showcasing Indian language support in OpenSource stall at Linux Bangalore/2002] |
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13 Nov 2002 00:10:24 +0530 |
Hoya,
If anyone is willing to do this - please mail Guntupalli Karunakar
<address@hidden> asap - with a CC to me.
I have my exams, and I won't be able to go.
Also, Barda lives in Bangalore - can anyone of you contact him in this
regard??
His iisc (Indian Inst. of Science) address seems to be bouncing :(
-sdg-
PS: I will be doing a 1 page "chotha" on Bengali in GNU/Linux - and
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From: Guntupalli Karunakar <address@hidden>
To: Venky Hariharan <address@hidden>, Frederick Noronha <address@hidden>, sunil
<address@hidden>, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah <address@hidden>, Tapan S.Parikh
<address@hidden>, Baiju M <address@hidden>, Sayamindu Dasgupta
<address@hidden>, Pramod R <address@hidden>, Arun Sharma <address@hidden>,
Sastry Ramachandrula <address@hidden>, Dr.U.B.Pavanaja <address@hidden>
Cc: Prakash Advani <address@hidden>, A Joseph Koshy <address@hidden>, Nagarjuna
G. <address@hidden>, jitendra <address@hidden>, Keyur Shroff <address@hidden>,
Atul Chitnis <address@hidden>
Subject: Showcasing Indian language support in OpenSource stall at Linux
Bangalore/2002
Date: 12 Nov 2002 17:22:06 +0530
Hi All,
Linux Bangalore/2002 is on, and an OpenSource stall is planned to
showcase Linux developments happening in India possibly including
localisation activities. I think this is a wonderful opportunity to
show our work and get more volunteers to speed up localisation, esp
translations and font development. Pl. See thread
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-bangalore-2002/message/240 for
more on this. More details regarding it would probably come up on
website soon( http://linux-bangalore.org/2002 ).
We can get space in stall & power, rest we need to manage :)
We could do possibly do the following and more ...(its up to you,
give more ideas )
- Have couple of PCs with Linux installed and language enabled (
means all latest libraries/tools installed ). On these the
localisation work - fonts, translations, utilities etc. will be
installed. All work done for Hindi, Bangla, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil
etc will be installed.
- Right now we have active teams for Hindi, Bangla, Malayalam,
Kannada & Tamil , we could have at least one person from each group be
present there & discuss their work and give demos. We could have small
sessions 15-20 mins explaining how a user can use the available
support for his language.
- Give out pamphlets ( 1 pagers ) giving Why? What? How? on
localisation on one side & links to resources & language teams on
other side.
The Goal is
- educate users on what is available & what they can/cannot do.
Many may be using Mandrake 9 / Redhat 8 / Gnome 2 but may not be
aware on how to use the language stuff.
- pull in people to volunteer for active participation in
localisation.
If event attracts 2000 people, we should be able to get at least
100 interested volunteers :).
Please let me know your views & interest regarding this asap, and also
giving more ideas on what we can do. We can start dicussing along
these lines. Those based in Bangalore - it would be really difficult
to do this without your support (esp. in logistics). Please give your
views & tell your availability during the event. We can further
discuss on the resources needed & do planning once we get concerned
teams interest.
Please get back asap as we have to prepare and submit a brief on what
we would be doing in the stall, at the earliest. (and it would also
help me plan my trip accordingly :)
Regards,
Karunakar
--
Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat -
Anon
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* Linux Bangalore/2002 *
* Technology for a Free World *
* December 3/4/5, 2002 *
* http://linux-bangalore.org/2002 *
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