[Commercial] Indianising Linux

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

        There seems to be commercial effort at localising linux in
 Indian Languages. http://www.freeos.com/indianlinux/

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        The Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore's
        Information for Development Centre and FreeOS.Com are looking
        for champions who can take up the cause of localising Linux in
        Indian languages. The goal of this Indianisation project is to
        ensure that the benefits of Information Technology percolate
        down to the Indian masses. We want to make technology
        accessible to the "other 90 percent" of India that does not
        speak English.
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        Some of the folks here in the Debian project have been in
 contact with the person behind freeos.com, Prakash Advani
 <prakash@xxxxxxxxxx>, and it is a consensus that making this effort
 distribution nuetral would be very desirable. He has expressed an
 interest in hiring technical people to work fulltime on this project,
 and given that Debian is way rarer than Red Hat in India, this would
 be an excellent opportunity for technically inclined Debian users
 looking for gainful employment in mumbai. 

         On a larger scale, people can contribute as volunteers to
 this project, and who better to do this than members of this list? I
 remember we have talked about localising Linux in Indian languages on
 these lists in the past; and this may be just the vehicle to move
 that goal forward. 

         manoj
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