Hello,
I am Raman, Project co-ordinator for BharateeyaOO.o (http://www.ncb.ernet.in/bharateeyaoo) Project . I would like to tell you about a great and perhaps an unprecendented thing that has happened to OpenOffice.org. On April 15th 2005 the IT Minister of the country dedicated OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 in Tamil to the Nation and brought it out as a CD. This CD will be distributed free to those who request for it. Apart from OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 in Tamil , the CD also contained open type fonts, Firefox browser , email-client, OCR tools and speel checkers all for Tamil Language. In the coming months the ministry plans to distribute about 3 million copies of this CD to Tamilians all over the world. Already about 50,000 copies of CD have been produced and are being distributed. So atleast among Tamil Speaking people, we would soon see everybody using OpenOffice.org instead of proprietary softwares. Apart from this I also had an opportunity to demo OpenOffice.org in a TV interview for a Tamil News Channel called "SUN NEWS" This interview will be telecasted on the "SUN NEWS" Channel on Sunday 24/04/05 at 17:30pm (Indian Standard Time) . So big time for OpenOffice.org among Tamilians. Let us celebrate the moment. Best Regards -Raman ------------------------------------------------------------------ RKVS Raman Ph. 91-80-28523300 (2512) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ncb.ernet.in/~raman ------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
