On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Sebin Jacob <[email protected]> wrote: > There are volunteer organisations like SMC that was founded to leverage > GNU/Linux localisation efforts and later even contributed much code for > other projects like Dhwani - thanks to Santhosh Thottingal. Now, another SMC > volunteer, Jinesh is working or Malayalam OCR. There are several other tools > like Swanalekha, Payyans etc from SMC and fonts like Meera and Suruma. > Onother contributor for SMC projects, Rajeev is working on Pango support in > Scribus which could help Malayalam DTP possible in GNU/Linux. SMC too is not > democratic in nature, for it has no organisational structure or committees > to rule over - No president, secretery etc. And would you also call SMC to > be monopolistic? Have you ever contributed even to the discussions regarding > localisations for that matter? Please, before making allegations, try to > clear your path record. I am afraid, if I am moving away from the subject.
SMC is going to register soon. It is in the discussion for past one year. It is not for controlling Online Community or Development efforts. It is just to make a structure that can deal with other Organisations, institutions and Government to bridge the gap between Developer community and Knowledge society. Memberships will be open to all who contributed to Swathanthra Malayalam Computing. Anivar --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
