Hi,

  below is text of mail sent to lb2-oss-expo@... for

taking space in stall.

  Pl. give ur feedback on what all we could do.



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We would like to apply for a stall in OpenSource stall at LB/02. This

will be the Localisation section in the stall ( whats the name of the

stall ?). Below is short description of what we expect to do.



Who are 'we' ?

  Members of various Localisation groups viz will try to have at least

1 member from each team.



   IndLinux (Hindi,Marathi) - http://www.indlinux.org

   Kannada  - http://kannada.sourceforge.net/

( Following teams invited - but participation not yet confirmed )

   Bengali - http://www.banglalinux.org/

   Tamil   - http://www.tamillinux.org/

   Malayalam - http://malayalamlinux.sourceforge.net

   LLI     - http://lli.linux-bangalore.org



Our goal

  Showcase whats available wrt Indian language support on Linux

including distros like Redhat 8.0, Mandrake 9.0 etc.

  Create awareness about Localisation into Indian languages.



Requirements

  Hardware : 1-2 PCs - min config. Celeron 300 or above, 128MB ram,

CDROM, LAN card

  Software : Redhat 7.3/8.0, Mandrake 9.0, Gnome 2, KDE 3.x, XFree86

4.2



( if possible ) access to CDRS data to collect demographics of those

visiting localisation stall & talks and email localisation newsletter



What we will do

  Have 10-15 min sessions explaining to delegates what is localisation,

what they can do & how to join in.

  Possibly distribute 1 pager containing breif on localisation on one

side & links to team pages on other side.



Demos: following demos could be shown

  - Gnome 2 desktop in Hindi

  - Tamil KDE desktop

  - Malayalam support - fonts, renderers

  - Bangla support - fonts

  - Kannada translations

  - Chatting in indian languages using Gaim 2 (Jabber as backend)

  - E-mail in indian languages using Balsa 2, K-Mail

  - Indian languages on web using Unicode - using Mozilla/Konqueror

  - Using unicode editor  Yudit.

  - Using Gtranslator for translations

  - IndLinux Hindi installer (based on Redhat 8.0)

  -  .... Awaiting more ideas from others



Thats all for now - maybe will add more to this once I get feedback

from other teams.

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Regards,

Karunakar



--

Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat -

Anon



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