[Indic-computing-users] Talk at IIT on IndLinux/Computing for the masses

[Frederick N. <fr...@by...>]

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Speaker: Venkatesh (Venky) Hariharan, Media Lab Asia. 
                                                     
Date:   18th October, Friday                          
                                                     
Venue:  KReSIT, Room No.301                           
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IIT Bombay.
Time:   3.30 PM                                       
                                                     
Title:  Ind Linux/Computing for the masses            

Abstract                                              
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For digital technology to reach the masses, the technology has to speak 
the common man/woman's language. Sadly, most software, operating systems  
and applications sold in India are in English. To break this logjam and 
the market, Indlinux.org is localizing Linux in Indian languages and  
plans to distribute it free of cost across India. A localized version of 
Linux in Hindi is in an advanced state of development and will be  
demonstrated during this talk.

The talk with be in two parts; the first part consisting of an overview
by Venkatesh (Venky) Hariharan and Prakash Advani, co-founders of the
project. This will be followed by a demonstration of the software and a 
brief overview of what localisation involves by G Karunakar, which will  
cover:

o Internationalization & Localisation basics.
o The POSIX                                                      
o GNU Gettext model                                     
o The toolkit approaches 
o How it all fits in.                                   
o What we are doing 
o Fonts development
o Input methods                                         
o Translations                                          
o Current areas of work 
o Areas you can contribute/do                           
o QT / KDE                                              
o Mozilla
o OpenOffice                                            

Conclusion                                            
Q & A                                                 
                                                      
For more information about IndLinux, see
www.indlinux.org      
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