Interesting project. Anyone interested contact Jaco Aizenman jaizenman@fsc.cc The exchange below is self-explanatory. Kindly note that the release takes place on July 1. Apparently the links might be not yet working. Sorry for the lengthy post. FN
From fred@bytesforall.org Fri Jun 27 23:44:48 2003
Can someone on Indic Computing or Indian-eGov or even bytesforall_readers help with such work on Indianising this distro? Sounds interesting. FN
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Jaco Aizenman wrote:
,danirc@bulma.net, peter@fsc.cc CC: marlon@debian-rs.org, michelle@cipsga.org.br Bcc: vbarba@fsc.cc, slopez@fsc.cc,dalmolin@e-cology.ca,joe@fsc.cc, denisonzl@hotmail.com,anderson@debian-rs.org, A.Molina@ed.ac.uk. gami@linux-delhi.org,geoff@sales.org, property@racsa.co.cr, jgb@gsyc.escet.urjc.es Subject: Indiand and Chinese developers welcome - Draft of FSC Press release - Re: Marie
Fred, we cannot send you yet the *Government Distro* because it will be available just after we finish some internacionalization features that will maximize its efficiency in multilanguage countries like India, or different typos like China.
Thats why we are looking for the *Red Flag* developers, and we will apreciate also if you can contact us with Indian developers specialized on adapting GNU/Linux Debian to the different Hindu languages.
Marlon who receives a copy is the *Government Distro* developers leader, and Michelle, who also receives a copy, is the *Technical Government Body* Coordinator. You may tell Cesar that Marlon and Michelle are Brasilians.... ;-)
Marlon is coming to Costa Rica in August because he is giving a presentation of the *Government Distro* to Costa Rican Government officials.
Please also find below the last version of the *Government Distro* press release that will be announced next week.
FSC PRESS RELEASE
Free Software Distribution for Governments
A Free Software Package known as the "Government Distro" was launched on July 1st by the Free Software Consortium (FSC), a global organization dedicated to the promotion and commercialisation of Free Sofware.
The Government Distro is a compilation of programs widely used by the public sector in Brazil, Argentina and Spain. It contains the GNU/Linux Operating System, an Office-like suite called Open Office, email and instant messenger, a calendar, a database, a web browser application and many other programs.
All these applications have been used and tested previously in dozens of Latin American and European users, in order to certify their functionality. They have all been designed by highly talented programmers _from_ (all) around the world.
The Government Distro is meant to be a common free government system platform for governments worldwide, both server and client-side.
Therefore, "the Government Distro is a big step towards the implementation of Free Software in the public sector around the world", says Marie Lopardo, Communications and Marketing (Government Body) Coordinator.
To obtain a full version of _the_ Government Distro visit www.fsc.cc/governmentdistro and register for it.
All the programs in _the_ Government Distro are user-friendly and some have been in use since 1999.
_The_ Free Software Consortium is offering technical assistance for Government Distro users.
For more information, please email governmentdistro@fsc.cc
Consortium Development Free Software Consortium FSConsortium.com