Hoya, If anyone is willing to do this - please mail Guntupalli Karunakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asap - with a CC to me. I have my exams, and I won't be able to go. Also, Barda lives in Bangalore - can anyone of you contact him in this regard?? His iisc (Indian Inst. of Science) address seems to be bouncing :( -sdg-
PS: I will be doing a 1 page "chotha" on Bengali in GNU/Linux - and -----Forwarded Message----- From: Guntupalli Karunakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Venky Hariharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, sunil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tapan S.Parikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Baiju M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pramod R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arun Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sastry Ramachandrula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dr.U.B.Pavanaja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Prakash Advani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, A Joseph Koshy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nagarjuna G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, jitendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Keyur Shroff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Atul Chitnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Showcasing Indian language support in OpenSource stall at Linux Bangalore/2002 Date: 12 Nov 2002 17:22:06 +0530 Hi All, Linux Bangalore/2002 is on, and an OpenSource stall is planned to showcase Linux developments happening in India possibly including localisation activities. I think this is a wonderful opportunity to show our work and get more volunteers to speed up localisation, esp translations and font development. Pl. See thread http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-bangalore-2002/message/240 for more on this. More details regarding it would probably come up on website soon( http://linux-bangalore.org/2002 ). We can get space in stall & power, rest we need to manage :) We could do possibly do the following and more ...(its up to you, give more ideas ) - Have couple of PCs with Linux installed and language enabled ( means all latest libraries/tools installed ). On these the localisation work - fonts, translations, utilities etc. will be installed. All work done for Hindi, Bangla, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil etc will be installed. - Right now we have active teams for Hindi, Bangla, Malayalam, Kannada & Tamil , we could have at least one person from each group be present there & discuss their work and give demos. We could have small sessions 15-20 mins explaining how a user can use the available support for his language. - Give out pamphlets ( 1 pagers ) giving Why? What? How? on localisation on one side & links to resources & language teams on other side. The Goal is - educate users on what is available & what they can/cannot do. Many may be using Mandrake 9 / Redhat 8 / Gnome 2 but may not be aware on how to use the language stuff. - pull in people to volunteer for active participation in localisation. If event attracts 2000 people, we should be able to get at least 100 interested volunteers :). Please let me know your views & interest regarding this asap, and also giving more ideas on what we can do. We can start dicussing along these lines. Those based in Bangalore - it would be really difficult to do this without your support (esp. in logistics). Please give your views & tell your availability during the event. We can further discuss on the resources needed & do planning once we get concerned teams interest. Please get back asap as we have to prepare and submit a brief on what we would be doing in the stall, at the earliest. (and it would also help me plan my trip accordingly :) Regards, Karunakar -- Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat - Anon ------------------------------------ * Linux Bangalore/2002 * * Technology for a Free World * * December 3/4/5, 2002 * * http://linux-bangalore.org/2002 * ------------------------------------ -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu/] * GNU is Not Unix * .... Towards World Liberation .... http://www.gnu.org ____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list [Bangla Penguin] send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe banglapenguin' in the subjectline and body. Archive of this mailing list is available at http://www.mail-archive.com/banglapenguin@;banglapenguin.org
