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

[Meyarivan <ma...@sa...>]

> 
> 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.