[Wikimediaindia-l] Tamizh Nadu

2011-10-02 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Please note: 1. Tamil is not nisspelt as Thamizh or Tamizh, that is intentional. 2. This mail is an important one. It could pretty much give birth to a massive digital movement that could aid Wikipedia and other projects like OSM, and more. 3. This mail is a mix of discussions that happened over

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamizh Nadu

2011-10-02 Thread Hisham
On Oct 3, 2011, at 2:14 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: 9,12 lakh Laptops will be completely distributed by the end of the Academic year. We are trying to establish a line of communication with ELCOT to discuss how we could have Wikipedia Offline installed on these computers. After

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamizh Nadu

2011-10-02 Thread Vickram Crishna
With all due respect to the notion that many hands working can accomplish more than one, the FOSS community has been working with ELCOT to ensure this scheme was not hijacked by the proprietary vendor lobby (which nearly happened even in this round of distribution), and at least at one point in