[Fsf-friends] Re: Malayalam

CK Raju ckraju@zyberway.com
Wed, 19 Mar 2003 13:15:50 +0530


Arun,
Which panchayat was it ?
Raju

On Saturday 15 March 2003 11:37 pm, Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote:
> 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 migh=
t
> *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 n=
ear
> > Trivandrum. We got very good response. The participants of the progra=
m
> > was mostly women(around 36 people from nearly 50 participants) from
> > panchatyath. More than 50 % of participents had some formal intriduct=
ion
> > 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.