[Fsf-friends] Indianisation ahoy... talks in Goa on Indian language computing

[Frederick Noronha (FN)]

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* Indian Linux project    *
* http://www.indlinux.org *
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	INDIANISATION AHOY: That untiring campaigner on Indianisation
	issues, G Karunakar <karunakar@indlinux.org> -- to visit
	the 'Paradise LUG' chapter in Goa later this week --
	informs us that IndLinux Milan CD 0.7-2 alpha has been
	released. Some time back the final release notes were yet to be up. 
	But, says he, you can track the release notes at
	http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php?IndLinuxMilanReleaseNotes

Good news! G Karunakar confirms that he will be in Goa this weekend. He 
has agreed to allow us to take (fair) advantage of his presence here. He 
will be speaking about current initiatives at Indian language computing 
attempts on the GNU/Linux platform. 

	Venue:    PCC College of Engineering
	Location: Along Panjim-Margao highway, 3 kms before Margao
	Date:     October 23, 2003 (Thursday)
	Time:     4 pm
	Subject:  The Indian Language Desktop	

	Venue: 	  CSI, Computer Society of India Office
	Location: Naguesh Apts, 3rd Floor, Opp Navtara Hotel, 
		  Panjim Market Area, Panjim.
	Date: 	  October 25, 2003 (Saturday)
	Time: 	  4 pm to 6 pm
	Subject:  Indianisation of Computing: The Tech Stuff

For those interested in Konkani (or work in any other small 
language) karunakar@freedomink.org recently mentioned: 

	The starting point for translation is to start with the gnome 
	glossary, its a collection of most commonly occuring tech terms, 
	which are used a lot in translations. Work becomes easy if you 
	have this done first, then po files can be taken up.

	You can get the glossary files at
	http://www.indlinux.org/downloads/gnomegloss/

	Also announce on the gnome-i18n list (see
	http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/)

	Also read a rough howto on doing translations at
	http://www.indlinux.org/hindi/gnome/howto.txt


One of Karunakar's preferred quotes: 
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A reasonable man adapts himself to the world
An unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to himself
So all progress in the world depends on the unreasonable man - GB Shaw