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The goal of this project is to create a Linux distribution that supports Indian Languages at all levels. This Indianisation project will strive to bring the benefits of Information Technology down to the Indian masses. We want to make technology accessible to the majority of India that does not speak English.

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For sometime now, the L10n initiatives focussed on making components of the FLOSS stack available in the local languages. Currently, the major groups including IndLinux, Ankur have taken the focus to the immediate upper level - application level L10n and deployment thereof.

L10n per se would remain only a concept or an exercise in geekdom if not properly integrated into existing processes within the framework of the Government. To achieve such goal, one way would be to create a forum wherein a participatory approach is possible. A related link has a comment by Ashish Sanyal, director, Centre for E-governance, that the Centre and state governments are expected to spend around Rs 5,000 crore over next two years on e-governance. Engaging pro-actively at the community level in such policy making efforts would lead to propagation of a well rounded strategy...(Complete article.)

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During the IRC Meet held on 17th June, 2005, we asked all team co-ordinators the following queries:

Current Language L10n status, who is doing what.
Future areas of activities
eg. Development of spellcheckers, dictionaries.
ways of automating translations.
Guides on steps in localization for say OpenOffice (building),

Mozilla/Firefox.

working on some testing of Indic for different applications (eg: there a issues with Openoffice wrt different versions using in distributions), Mozilla. Some KDE Indic rendering issues.
New input methods in IIIMF, SCIM.

The meeting concluded with the following result:

Team updates from Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Mayalayam, Kannada, Gujarati, Bengali, Oriya, Hindi
An outline doc for making a status report will be posted (20th June) - All teams could fill in details to bring out a more detailed status report.
Next meet fixed for 24th June - 3pm - 6pm - Agenda - consortium & tdil draft proposals + status report - detailed agenda will come on list

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In the News

Rangoli 1.0b live CD released.
The IndLinuxSaga is a timeline of Indlinux's effort in bringing Hindi to the FLOSS world.
IndLinux stall at FOSS.IN, see Indic@FOSS.IN

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