[Indic-computing-users] Re: Fwd: Re: [FSF-WG] FLOSS for windows - any progress?

[Sunil A. <su...@ma...>]

> Translation of software packages is time consuming and it would
> be better if we dont tie the release of the distribution to such 

I agree. This can be a huge effort. Let us aim for small victories in
the start. Hopefully we should be able to contribute 'hindi' and
'kannda' Plone.org / Zope.org within the deadline.

Thanks,

Sunil

On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 00:11, Meyarivan wrote:
> 
> > 
> > IMHO, I think someone would be doing India  a *great* favour if they could
> > translate GNUWin into *any* Indian language. But who would that *someone*
> > be? Of course, this is apart from Ravikant's ideas, which could also be
> > gone ahead with if Sarai sees potential for it.
> > 
> 
> It is probably a good idea to start with the following:
> 
> *	Software package compilation 
> 
> 	either original compilation or borrowed from
> 	OpenCD, GNUWin etc
> 
> 	the time required to test the software is
> 	considerable .. 
> 
> 
> *	Documentation
> 
> 	starting with simple documentation on the
> 	purpose of each software in atleast 2-3
> 	indian languages ( in paper )
> 
> 
> Translation of software packages is time consuming and it would
> be better if we dont tie the release of the distribution to such 
> efforts and continue with whats available right now. As the translated
> versions become available (through efforts from indic-computing, sarai..)
> we can incorporate them.
> 
> 
> 
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