On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Vikas Tara <v...@hamaralinux.org> wrote:
> On 10/09/14 17:38, Karthikeyan A K wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Vikas Tara <v...@hamaralinux.org> wrote: > > > >> Hi ilugc, > >> > >> I am planning a trip down to Chennai to talk to people about hamara > >> linux and > >> the hamara project generally. > >> > >> Hamara Linux is a new distribution tailored to the Indian market from > >> the perspective of language, design, usability and access. > >> > >> We are promoting design that users feel accustomed to, a way to reach a > >> larger audience and also stem cultural hegemony. We target intel as well > >> as ARM, to make access to the platform easier/cheaper. Native language > >> support - you will be able to find us using a search engine without > >> knowing how to read English. > >> > >> I will be in Chennai on Monday 22nd September and would really welcome > >> the opportunity to meet with like minded open source / linux > enthusiasts. > >> > >> > >> > >> Regards > >> > >> > >> Vikas Tara > >> > >> -- > >> Founder - Hamara Linux > >> www.hamaralinux.org > >> www.twitter.com/hamaralinux > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> ILUGC Mailing List: > >> http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > >> ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: > >> http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines > >> > > That's great, but won't it be another fragmentation? For example Boss > linux > > is practically used no where in India. It was funded by the Indian > > government, but did not get traction. But ofcourse gobverment is highly > > beuracratic and no real technicial would like to work under it. > > > > Why not develop packages for popular distros that will add our languages > in > > user friendly manner, or urge people to participate in translation > > projects? Or tell people to improve linuxes power efficiency as India is > > really deficit in electricity. > > > > The best think would be a distro that lets us configure what ever we > want, > > I think http://www.gnewsense.org/ did it, but I don't know its status > now. > > > > But any way as the OS is getting stabilized, the only battle that's being > > fought in linux-for-normal-people world is the UI battle and Ubuntu is > > winning it all the time. If one says android, I would like to install > > Ubuntu touch on their tablet/phone. But I feel this will be a great > student > > project to learn this OS. Your college will be proud of you. > This is why we want to come and talk to people. > > If the existing distros do not cover the needs of ordinary people, then > this is not fragmentation. > > For example, if your not literate in english, you have very little hope > of ever finding linux and to a certain > extent, you might be scared off from using a computer altogether. > > Also, another example, we are working furiosly towards an arm build > running to run on the cubie board which brings low cost, low power > hardware with the possibility of running 100% solar - and all > technologies that can be accessed by the man on the street. > > We looked very closely and gnewsense and trisquel, both very valuable > projects, they helped us to craft a good base for building the distro - and > I think if you ask them - that's what they intended. > > I hope you checked out the screenshots at www.hamaralinux.org for an > example of UI. > > btw - I am bit old for college, I graduated in 1994, my first linux was > redhat 6.2 ;) > > > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: > http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines > Oh, so this is serious. I am not sure about the business side. Any way all the best. Hope this will nurture lot of linux geeks in India. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
