[nukkad] Indianising Linux (fwd)

[Harshal Chhaya <hchhaya@epsilon.pair.com>]

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This was posted on a couple of lists I am on. The followup messages
included suggestions to check out:

http://www.linux-india.org/
http://www.eoe.org - Educational Objects Economy, an effort promoting
                     collaborative, open source projects
http://www.sipa.org/ - Silicon Valley Indian Professional Assoc.

IMO, the first step is to decide on an standard encoding for all 
Indian languages. Most efforts in this area have floundered either
for lack of promotion (by the people involved) or lack of general
interest. Tamil is the only language to embrace standard encoding
in a big way and this shows in the availability of Tamil info online
(in a Tamil font). I hope the ISCII project (approved by the
Bureau of Indian Standards) takes off and makes this possible. 

- 'shal
harshal@mumbai-central.com


----- Forwarded message from Venkatesh Hariharan -----

First of all, apologies for the cross post. The Indian Institute of
Information Technology, Bangalore and FreeOS.Com are looking for 'champions'
who can take up the cause of localising Linux in Indian languages. The goal
of this Indianisation project is to ensure that the benefits of Information
Technology percolate down to the Indian masses. We want to make technology
accessible to the "other 90 percent" of India  that does not speak English.

The task involves localising the user-interface and help text of Linux and
related applications and we expect this to take around 2 years in
collaboration with several other volunteers, over the Internet. Each
champion (can be an individual or a group) will have to take ownership of
the localisation responsibility for one particular language. Those
interested, please get in touch with me at venky@venky.org and mark a cc: to
Prakash Advani at prakash@freeos.com. My telephone numbers are 080-8410627 x
115.

Regards,

Venky

Venkatesh Hariharan
Faculty Member,
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore
Information for Development Centre
iiit-b Enterprise Forum
http://www.iiit-b.org
Personal Web Site: http://www.venky.org
Personal e-mail: venky@venky.org


----- End of forwarded message from Venkatesh Hariharan -----

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