> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 12:31:59 +0530 > From: Srinivasan Sundararajan <[email protected]> > > would like to share some thoughts -- with you, and thru you with ILUG-D > members -- in the light of the exchanges at ILUG-D on BOSS. I wouldn't put > this as a clarification or official response, but more as an exchange of > information / perspective. I hope this will lead to cohesion & > contribution to/from BOSS efforts.
This is great! > 1. Thanks to Nishant, Nalin, etc. for their appreciative sentiments, and > to Karanbir, Kartik, Raj Mathur and others for their frank opinions. Thanks for looking at my opinion as frank :) > 3. BOSS distro : Both binary & the source code (with allied stuff) are > available from the repository http://bosslinux.in/downloads Thanks for pointer. > 4. Indian language localisation : The .po files files, keyboard layouts, > etc., are available at http://downloads.bosslinux.in/Localisation/ I think only .deb files are not much useful. You may want to provide source of it - so that other distro(s) can use it. (.dsc, .orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz - all these three) (Same as you have in /downloads above). > As vikram pointed out, the community will have to decide whether it is > acceptable or not. I had some brief exchanges with Karunakar and Gora, and > hope to get some focussed action in the near future. Are you ready to take feedback (positive or negative)? > 5. There are a few packages like Bulk Document Converter, Presentation > Tool, etc. -- integrated with BOSS distro, but could be candidates for > stand alone packages. These tools can be great aid as contribution to community. Someone started working on it, but it did not go through Debian standards/procedures. See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497399 (I am still ready to help, ball is in your court!) > 6. Help Desk -- toll free number 1 800 4250 455 is operative from C-DAC > Chennai Centre. Currently, there are 4-5 persons responding to queries > during office working hours (10 - 5, mon-fri) catering to queries -- in > Eng, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada. Mostly, the queries are > requests for BOSS CDs/DVDs and on installation issues. Is IRC still active. Most developers will be comfortable with IRC/Mailing List rather than call. But, this is very useful to users. -- Cheers, Kartik Mistry | 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_ Debian GNU/Linux Developer | Identica: @kartikm Blogs: {ftbfs, kartikm}.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
