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From: Thommie Rother t.rother@netzwissen.de To: linux-india Mailing Liste linux-india-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [LIG] Some assistance needed in Aramboly, Tamil Nadu Date: 06 Nov 2002 13:10:57 +0100
Hi folks, this message does't come from a Linuxer in India, but in Germany: I am working with an NGO supporting a home for orphaned children in Tamil Nadu, the Annai Seva Ashram. The home is located in Aramboly, Kanyakumari Dist., a few kilometers from Nagercoil. The children are from 7 to 15 yrs old, they get basic education in local public schools. Our NGO here in Germany supports the projects since 18 years. For details, see http://www.annai.de (sorry for the english pages not being "up to date").
I have two questions:
- On-site Linux/graphics/printing advice in Kanyakumari district
To make some (additional) money, the home had operated a little print shop for some years. As the classic "mechanical printing" is out of date now, the machinery has been sold. Instead of this, they want to invest into computerized printing. They will not buy a complete "printer factory" , but rather specialize in pre-press/pre-printing activities. That means, they want to create the digital data, the actual printing is done elsewhere. All necessary knowledge on printing is already there. Our board has opened a budget for the purchase of a good (professional) desktop PC and the chief officer of ASA (Mr Sukumaran) had already received an offer from a computer shop in Nagercoil plus some detailed recommendations from us, concerning the hardware.
For the software side, we recommend strongly to NOT invest into proprietary M$ Windows stuff but rather into the Linux OS and free/Open-Source software. But the final decision is up to them! I am looking for some person who is willing to give Mr Sukumaram some on-site advice, in the case that he will decide to use Linux and Linux graphical programs (that will be GIMP, I assume..). I already made some searches on linux-india.org, but without successs concerning the Kanyakumari region.
- Website creation in the tamil language
For the www.annai.de site, we want to have a three-language setup: primarily in german, then tamil and english. I am looking for some practical start-up hints on creating tamil web pages. Can anyone here give me an overwiev on this? I have people who can translate from english to Tamil (at ASA), but how is tamil supported in current browsers/OS'es nowadays?
Greetings & thanks for your help! Thomas
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