Re: [PLUG] Self Analysis

2008-02-24 Thread ഓം
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Re: [PLUG] Self Analysis

2008-02-24 Thread Nishit Dave
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Sriram Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of free time and of how shy they are about meeting other tech enthusiasts. I sometimes think LUGs take the tech enthusiasts thing too far - scaring away lay users like me who are not interested in programming languages

Re: [PLUG] Gcompris in Urdu Launched !!

2008-02-24 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nishit Dave wrote: | Thanks for the illuminating explanation. My comment was more | regarding the so called internationalisation efforts, e.g. in Fedora 8 | / KDE / Ubuntu 7.10, where only a very few menu items are changed to | Indic languages, and

Re: [PLUG] Gcompris in Urdu Launched !!

2008-02-24 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nishit Dave wrote: | I am not so thoroughly well-versed in all matters techno-FOSS, but I | think localization is a term that gets bandied about freely, and | that's what I was talking about. Just another way of putting in my | 2c.

Re: [PLUG] Self Analysis

2008-02-24 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Nishit Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Sriram Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of free time and of how shy they are about meeting other tech enthusiasts. I sometimes think LUGs take the tech enthusiasts thing too far -

Re: [PLUG] Self Analysis

2008-02-24 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Sriram Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Nishit Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Sriram Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of free time and of how shy they are about meeting other tech

Re: [PLUG] Gcompris in Urdu Launched !!

2008-02-24 Thread Nishit Dave
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you provide examples of such instances please - with language and menu items where you see English cropping up ? IIRC, Gujarati in Fedora 8, probably also Hindi in Ubuntu Gutsy. --

[PLUG] Need freelancer for Low level SPI device driver

2008-02-24 Thread Ashutosh Pavaskar
Hello, We are adding MMC card support for our Linux boards and need quick support in designing the low level SPI device driver. Please mail back to saplingconsultants at gmail dot com if you can undertake the work. The toolchain and the board shall be made available for the work. Let us know the

Re: [PLUG] Self Analysis

2008-02-24 Thread Nishit Dave
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Sriram Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lest some students mis-understand what Nishit is saying here: Students are exposed to technology and are students of technology. Consequentially, their focus remains technology. If they were to see how technology

Re: [PLUG] Gcompris in Urdu Launched !!

2008-02-24 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Nishit Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC, Gujarati in Fedora 8, probably also Hindi in Ubuntu Gutsy. Would it be possible for you to recall the specific menu items ? -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say

Re: [PLUG] Self Analysis

2008-02-24 Thread ഓം
www.ncomputing.com based solution will help you money and some headache, but I do not know how you could use your old software on that. I would advise to use Linux + OpenOffice combination. -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group

Re: [PLUG] Gcompris in Urdu Launched !!

2008-02-24 Thread Nishit Dave
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be possible for you to recall the specific menu items ? I have Fedora 8 in dual boot on my laptop. Will upload screenshots after some time to my blog and send a link. --