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Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
>
> First of all, apologies for the cross post. The Indian Institute of
> Information Technology, Bangalore and FreeOS.Com are looking for 'champions'
> who can take up the cause of localising Linux in Indian languages. The goal
> of this Indianisation project is to ensure that the benefits of Information
> Technology percolate down to the Indian masses. We want to make technology
> accessible to the "other 90 percent" of India that does not speak English.
>
> The task involves localising the user-interface and help text of Linux and
> related applications and we expect this to take around 2 years in
> collaboration with several other volunteers, over the Internet. Each
> champion (can be an individual or a group) will have to take ownership of
> the localisation responsibility for one particular language. Those
> interested, please get in touch with me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and mark a cc: to
> Prakash Advani at [EMAIL PROTECTED] My telephone numbers are 080-8410627 x
> 115.
>
> Regards,
>
> Venky
>
> Venkatesh Hariharan
> Faculty Member,
> Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore
> Information for Development Centre
> iiit-b Enterprise Forum
> http://www.iiit-b.org
> Personal Web Site: http://www.venky.org
> Personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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Folks interested please contact him directly.
Thanks,
Arup Bhanja,
Calcutta,INDIA.
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