[Indic-computing-users] Showcasing Indian language support in OpenSource stall at Linux Bangalore/2002

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@fr...>]

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            *
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