[Indic-computing-users] IndLinux updates

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

Hi, 
 Just to give a small update on recent activities on IndLinux front
and some more being
planned.

 * Alpha release of Rangoli live CD - Rangoli is all languages ,
multilingual live CD , alpha version had KDE with Hindi , Bengali and
Tamil interface. Beta release is scheduled for August end.
 
 * In July I had been to Bhutan to give a training on localization for
their national language - Dzongkha.

 * Hindi translations have been progressing steadily, Ravishankar
Shrivastava has completed 90% of KDE and 70% of GNOME. With another
translator Rajesh Ranjan joining (who is working on GNOME), its
getting faster.

 * On July 30, We had a IndLinux workshop at Learning Center, India
Habitat Centre, Delhi, managed by Satyakam Goswami (Ilug-delhi) and
Ravikant (Sarai) asisted by Mary, Shejar, Ravi Shrivastava & myself.
Rangoli live CD with KDE Hindi interface was used. Since most of the
crowd were students they found it pretty easy to learn through the
interface , and start typing in Hindi using bolnagri phonetic keymap. 
 A report of it is at
http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/HabitatWorkshop

 * Aug 1st - 3rd , was the KDE Hindi translation review workshop held
at Sarai. Most of the major KDE applications like Konqueror, Kate,
KMail, KDE control center etc were reviewed . Changes suggested will
be merged into next major release of KDE and Rangoli. Report is at
http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/ReviewWorkshop

Plans for remaining of August

 * Website update - for quite sometime website has been stale, though
there is an active wiki. In the next week website will be scrapped and
replaced with the Wiki only. After sometime we would put in place a
user and community oriented website/cms.

 * Finalising Rangoli Live CD and release by August end and have it
released with some magazine.

 * Translation updates for GNOME 2.8 and KDE 3.3

 * Plan for holding more Usability workshops in Western region
(Mumbai/Pune/Ratlam/Bhopal etc)

Comments/feedback welcome :)

Regards,
Karunakar

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