[FSUG-Bangalore] SMPADA GNU/Linux Install Fest

[Anivar Aravind]

  Kannada on your computer, the easy way

Special Correspondent

Volunteers will help you install the programme on your PC
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Bangalore: Do you wish you could use Kannada on your computer with the 
same ease as English? Then there is help for you from a group of Free 
and Open Source Software enthusiasts associated with the online 
community, Sampada.

AGNU/Linux Habba will have qualified volunteers helping you install 
Linux on your computer, on April 26, at the Super Computer Research 
Centre at the Indian Institute of Science. They will show you how to 
type in Kannada and configure and optimise your system for Kannada. Take 
an empty CD along and they will copy your favourite GNU/Linux 
distribution on it for you. The experts will answer any question you may 
have on its usage.

The edit on Sampada.net explains the need for such a festival: “Many 
users who are new to Linux find it difficult to install Linux on their 
systems. Several users who have started out with GNU/Linux, after 
reading articles about it in the community, have come back with 
roadblocks they faced configuring the installation for Kannada rendering 
and usage. We are planning this fest to address these issues and spend 
an afternoon having fun installing GNU/Linux.”

Volunteers attended a day-long workshop on Sunday at Bangalore to 
prepare for the festival. “Some people have come all the way from 
Mysore,” says Hariprasad Nadig, the man behind the Sampada initiative.

Those who want to participate in the festival can register at 
http://kannada.sampada.net/habba.