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INDIANISATION AHOY: That untiring campaigner on Indianisation issues, G Karunakar karunakar@indlinux.org -- to visit the 'Paradise LUG' chapter in Goa later this week -- informs us that IndLinux Milan CD 0.7-2 alpha has been released. Some time back the final release notes were yet to be up. But, says he, you can track the release notes at http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php?IndLinuxMilanReleaseNotes

Good news! G Karunakar confirms that he will be in Goa this weekend. He has agreed to allow us to take (fair) advantage of his presence here. He will be speaking about current initiatives at Indian language computing attempts on the GNU/Linux platform.

Venue: PCC College of Engineering Location: Along Panjim-Margao highway, 3 kms before Margao Date: October 23, 2003 (Thursday) Time: 4 pm Subject: The Indian Language Desktop

Venue: CSI, Computer Society of India Office Location: Naguesh Apts, 3rd Floor, Opp Navtara Hotel, Panjim Market Area, Panjim. Date: October 25, 2003 (Saturday) Time: 4 pm to 6 pm Subject: Indianisation of Computing: The Tech Stuff

For those interested in Konkani (or work in any other small language) karunakar@freedomink.org recently mentioned:

The starting point for translation is to start with the gnome glossary, its a collection of most commonly occuring tech terms, which are used a lot in translations. Work becomes easy if you have this done first, then po files can be taken up.

You can get the glossary files at http://www.indlinux.org/downloads/gnomegloss/

Also announce on the gnome-i18n list (see http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/)

Also read a rough howto on doing translations at http://www.indlinux.org/hindi/gnome/howto.txt

One of Karunakar's preferred quotes: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A reasonable man adapts himself to the world An unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to himself So all progress in the world depends on the unreasonable man - GB Shaw