[Fsf-friends] Re: Malayalam

[Frederick Noronha (FN)]

Arun, Aren't you posting this to the other lists too? It's important to 
share even the small milestones along the journey. Who knows, this might 
*not* be such a *small* milestone anyway. FN

On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Arun M wrote:


> Hi,
> 
> 
>    Today we did a pilot test of the Malayalam Gnome in a panchayath near
> Trivandrum. We got very good response. The participants of the program
> was mostly women(around 36 people from nearly 50 participants) from
> panchatyath. More than 50 % of participents had some formal intriduction
> to computers. And a few without any computer Knowledge. We have
> collected the feed back on language uses and benfits of a malayalam
> localised platform. Result is very much encouraging. The half day
> session planned got extended to one complete day. Details i will send
> soon.
> 
> regards,
> arun.
> 
> 
> 
> 

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