On 7/15/07, Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at sun.com> wrote:
> I was told that the user groups were notified about the announcement. And
> I had hoped this would be a positive addition to the India OpenSolaris
> community. I apologize for the misunderstanding.
>

Oh! This is a non-issue. I was bringing it to notice and wasn't complaining.
The amount of information processing some of you are doing to keep
things together across different forums with the ever growing numbers
is very evident.

> I was aware that there are many languages in India and that English is
> pervasive in the tech market. However, I was also told that Hindi is the
> national language and that the main Indian portal page should be in
> Hindi --

It is easy to get it wrong on the language front, even for fellow
country men, let alone people outside the country :-)
I have seen it lead to endless unproductive discussions on many
(tech/nontech) forums.
Sriram put it well in the earlier mail to bosug :
"............Lilliput and Blefuscu wars -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliput_and_Blefuscu which only those
people understood  ! :)"

> The portal is for the India community.
<snip>
> for unique and original content to be added.
<snip>
> Perhaps in.opensolaris.org can grow into something
> that everyone is happy with?

Definitely yes.
With some imagination and effort it should be possible.

cheers
Shiv

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