Good afternoon everyone, I am writing this email to request a sponsor for the brand new package, "scim-waitzar".
The scim-waitzar project provides an IMEngine for SCIM that supports the Burmese language. In particular, it allows Burmese text to be typed through the use of a romanisation, similar to how scim-pinyin works for Chinese. Currently, Burmese text must be typed using keyboard layouts (letter-at-a-time) on Linux. As far as I know, scim-waitzar is the only romanised IME available for Linux. A significant number of users prefer romanisation over keyboard layouts; there are a number of Windows utilities and Firefox addons that support romanised Burmese input, but so far nothing for SCIM. Seeing as SCIM is widely supported on Debian (among other systems), I see the scim-waitzar package as a key enabling technology for Burmese Linux users. The package is currently in the alpha stage; it works fine, but we are having a number of Myanmar users test it before we formally submit the package to debian. I am the project manager of the scim-waitzar source tree, and I'm the package maintainer as well. I figured that now would be a good time to ping the list and get a sponsor, since I am quite new to packaging. The alpha package can be downloaded from: http://scim-waitzar.googlecode.com/files/scim-waitzar_0.0.1_i386.deb ...and the User's Guide provides a good overview of functionality & usage: http://scim-waitzar.googlecode.com/files/WaitZar%20User%27s%20Guide_0.0.1.doc Please note that the alpha package ships with a legacy romanisation, and should NOT be considered camera-ready. My goal with this email is to get in contact with a sponsor for scim-waitzar and maintain a correspondence with him or her until the 1.0 release, in a few months. Please let me know if you need any more information. I'm happy to leap through almost any necessary hoops, and I'd really appreciate any mentoring and advice you might have. Cheers, Seth N. Hetu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
