[Indic-computing-users] Experimenting with Milan (Gnome in Hindi) in Goa

[Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...>]

Su...@go... was mentioning to me his interest in GNU/Linux, when we 
ran into each other at Varsha Book Stall (my usual haunt on most evenings) 
the other day. I mentioned that his own brother, G Karunakar, had recently 
released Milan, a Hindi solution for Gnome.

In no time, Subhash, who works with NIC in Goa, had downloaded Milan. It 
is a download of 1.5 MB, if one recalls right.

Yesterday evening, Animesh and Subhash met at Cafe Prakash (another of our 
journo haunts in Panjim, a friendly hole-in-the-wall where you can sit for 
three hours over a single tea) and were talking about things.

If we could get Milan into a demo-able stage for our coming Saturday's 
GNU/Linux free software meet, it would be great. Subhash says that he is 
not much into GNU/Linux himself, since NIC is working more into providing 
applications on the Windows platform. I think Milan works with RedHat 8.0 
and 7.3.

If anyone interested in this field would like to take this work ahead in 
Goa, please get in touch with 

	su...@go...
	ba...@go...
	ar...@op...
	bb...@gm...

Please don't overlook the fact that this is an important development for 
us in Goa. After all, the government-recognised script for Konkani is 
Devanagari. (We also need Kannada and Roman-script, including with the 
additional accents, solutions for Konkani... and also Malayalam and 
Perso-Arabic script solutions. These are all the scripts this small 
language with an estimated 1.5 to 5 million speakers is written in.)

FN
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