Hi :) Sorry this is probably not the answer you want to hear! It would be nice to know of a LibreOffice DVD Project in the Indian area and other areas you mention, if there are any. Most existing projects (such as the German and North American ones) are built and maintained by individuals or local-user groups on a voluntary basis. None are built and maintained by TDF. So it's not the case that TDF are excluding such areas.
If you want a hand creating a Dvd Project then you might follow the North American way of copying what one of the other teams do, adapting it for your chosen area and getting advice and guidance from people involved in the existing projects. For the NA one it was all a long drawn-out battle every step of the way but hopefully that struggle has made it easier for other projects to get help and share ideas. I'm still not sure if TDF allows any of it's servers to be used for hosting it or if it's still all on volunteer's servers. I gather it is (at last!) listed on an official LibreOffice web-page but getting it there was a struggle. The NA one wanted to do other languages that are often used in the US but it would kinda need people who do speak those languages to get involved. It's tooo much for 1 person even as it is (although he is doing well with it). For the areas mentioned you might be able to get some support from the L10n mailing list where all the international translators coordinate things. It's a bit off-topic for them but you might find it the fastest way to find like-minded people. For the Pan-Indian one it might even be possible to get funding for it from the Indian Government! The Indian Government seems to be investing in the future of their country's IT at the moment and is not dedicated to spending money on a certain foreign company, to help the foreign nation recover from the financial crises at the expense of it's own country. Unlike the countries most of us live in! Apparently the level of IT literacy is growing faster in India than any other country and they already have a large number of extremely skilled advanced IT people already. It might be worth talking to people from the "Spoken Tutorials" project to see if they could take on the DVD Project themselves or whether they could help you apply for funding http://spoken-tutorial.org/ Regards from Tom :) On 30 November 2013 06:19, M. Fioretti <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 18:00:31 PM -0800, tk wrote: > >> And along those lines, is there still a person, or group that constructs: > >> * A Pan-Indian LibO DVD. (LibO for the four major operating systems, in all >> of the official languaes, and most of the semi-official languages of India.); *A Southern African DVD (LibO in the official languages of South Africa, Namibia, Mocambique, Angola, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, for the four major operating systems.); * The Arabic, English, German, Hebrew, Russian compilation LibO DVD, for the four major operating systems.; > > Hi Jonathon, not sure what you mean here. Are you saying that there WERE such > dvds, or that somebody SHOULD do them? > >> >Many companies, especially charities, can buy MS Office for bargain >> >discount special deals. > >> Microsoft's hypocracy in offering discounts for their software to >> charitable organizations has been well documented for more than a >> decade. > > True: all NGOs should avoid making a mess with those donations, as I > too wrote here: > > http://stop.zona-m.net/2010/10/note-to-all-ngos-please-dont-make-a-mess-with-microsoft-donations/ > > Of course, answering to the earlier poster, not Jonathon: > >> >Is it morally right for a charity to expect it's service-users to >> >spend so much more money than they need to and thus ensure the >> >charity can keep getting special discounts? > > *Big* charities often have the problems that Jonathon said. Very small > organizations, instead, need to spend zero time/money on > maintaining/re-learning the software they have to use, because it > would be all resources subtracted to working in the streets with the > people they assist. That's why they stick to proprietary software in > general, not just MSO. > > Marco > -- > > M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net > > Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how > software is used *around* you > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
