[Fsf-friends] [Fwd: [LIG] Some assistance needed in Aramboly, Tamil Nadu]

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

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> From: Thommie Rother <t.rother@netzwissen.de>
> To: linux-india Mailing Liste <linux-india-general@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: [LIG] Some assistance needed in Aramboly, Tamil Nadu
> Date: 06 Nov 2002 13:10:57 +0100
> 
> Hi folks,
> this message does't come from a Linuxer in India, but in Germany:
> I am working with an NGO supporting a home for orphaned children in 
> Tamil Nadu, the Annai Seva Ashram. The home is located in Aramboly, 
> Kanyakumari Dist., a few kilometers from Nagercoil. The children are 
> from 7 to 15 yrs old, they get basic education in local public schools. 
> Our NGO here in Germany supports the projects since 18 years. For 
> details, see http://www.annai.de (sorry for the english pages not being 
> "up to date").
> 
> I have two questions:
> 
> 1) On-site Linux/graphics/printing advice in Kanyakumari district
> To make some (additional) money, the home had operated a little print 
> shop for some years. As the classic "mechanical printing" is out of date 
> now, the machinery has been sold. Instead of this, they want to invest 
> into computerized printing. They will not buy a complete "printer 
> factory" , but rather specialize in pre-press/pre-printing activities. 
> That means, they want to create the digital data, the actual printing is 
> done elsewhere. All necessary knowledge on printing is already there. 
> Our board has opened a budget for the purchase of a good (professional) 
> desktop PC and the chief officer of ASA (Mr Sukumaran)  had already 
> received an offer from a computer shop in Nagercoil plus some detailed 
> recommendations from us, concerning the hardware.
> 
> For the software side, we recommend strongly to NOT invest into 
> proprietary M$ Windows stuff but rather into the Linux OS and 
> free/Open-Source software. But the final decision is up to them! I am 
> looking for some person who is willing to give Mr Sukumaram some on-site 
> advice, in the case that he will decide to use Linux and Linux graphical 
> programs (that will be GIMP, I assume..). I already made some searches 
> on linux-india.org, but without successs concerning the Kanyakumari region.
> 
> 2) Website creation in the tamil language
> For the www.annai.de site, we want to have a three-language setup: 
> primarily in german, then tamil and english. I am looking for some 
> practical start-up hints on creating tamil web pages. Can anyone here 
> give me an overwiev on this? I have people who can translate from 
> english to Tamil (at ASA), but how is tamil supported in current 
> browsers/OS'es nowadays?
> 
> Greetings & thanks for your help!
> Thomas
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