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[Fsf-friends] Mozilla Localization
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 08 Mar '03

08 Mar '03

This note is from Venky Hariharan. FN ---------- Forwarded message ---------- One of India's most respected Internet companies is looking for programmers who will help localize Mozilla to Indian languages. Those who apply need to have at least 2-3 years experience, but above all, a passion for the Internet and for free /open source software. The objective of Indianizing Mozilla is to revolutionize computing in Indian languages, especially on the Internet. The selected individuals will be based in Mumbai. Those interested are invited to apply to venky@indlinux.org/karunakar@indlinux.org. For more details, see the attached job description. Regards, Venky ===== Mozilla Indianization ===================== 1) Goal: Enable Mozilla browser to display & handle indian languages properly, with proper font technology available. Localize Mozilla interface also to indian languages. 2) Project Requirements: All work done should be contributed back to Mozilla codebase, so that it becomes part of it. Solutions arrived at should make into main tree, rather than be done as adhoc hacks / addons / patches. i) i18n part (involving changing mozilla codebase) : a - Should be able to render Indian languages encoded in Unicode/UTF-8 b - Use a standardized font technology - eg OpenType. c - Support any encodings standardized for a language eg ISCII, TSCII, KSCLP (KGP) ii) l10n part (no code change - UI customization, translations of UI and Help text): a - Incorporate locale support (chrome level) b - Translate Mozilla UI into indian languages c - Making indianized mozilla theme - custom graphics, logos 3) Skill sets req a - Knowlegde of at least two Indian languages - reading & writing, script & language processing level 2.i & 2.ii.b b - C, C++, XML, Java for 2.i c - Graphics expertise for 2.ii.c d - For translator - good vocabulary in English & at least one Indian language, previous exp in translation also helpful. e - Proj. mgmt skills, ability to work with volunteers remotely , coordinate work through email/IM/group meetings. f - Interest in localization and passion for having indian languages on mozilla. g - Work experience of 2-3 years in the IT industry Current status: Mozilla supports Unicode, so all indian languages represented in Unicode work at unicode level - no proper rendering, if a suitable unicode font is available. ie proper vowel sign positioning, conjuncts etc are not avialable. Some work is on by Prabhat Hegde from Sun Microsystems on adding devanagari support, basically by using Pango (www.pango.org) rendering engine. He is exploring doing it using Opentype fonts. (Any one working for this should work with Prabhat for guidance & review, as he already has experience in Mozilla codebase ) Some hindi translation work has been done by a group based in Mumbai, available at http://www.bttlindia.com/mozilla/ . Some translation work for Tamil is also on. (These translations should be reused, instead of starting from scratch) Notes: 2.i has to be done in active participation with Mozilla developers & done at those forums ( mozilla-i18n , mozilla-l10n ) 2.ii.b is pure translation work, can be done in centralized or distributed fashion. 2.i.c - Since ISCII, TSCII etc are not registered character sets, it may not be possible to use them with Mozilla autodetection feature. Some workaround could be suggested. ISCII text will basically be converted to Unicode internally for display, enabled through use of \\\'iso8829-12\\\' ( reserved for Indic - ISO is waiting for us to settle to something :) . (The rationale to support ISCII is since ISCII chars will take 1byte, UTF-8 indic characters take 3bytes, or 7 bytes when used as named character references - The debate will pick up heat when indian languages are fully supported ) --------------------------- * Indian Linux project * * http://www.indlinux.org * --------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fsf-friends mailing list Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends

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SCO suit against IBM
by vinayak_hegde＠softhome.net 08 Mar '03

08 Mar '03

Hi, Almost everyone must have read this by now. It's all over Slashdot.org and lwn.net Another threat for Open source/Free Software Good Analysis http://lwn.net/Articles/24747/ From the horse's mouth http://www.sco.com/scosource/ The full complaint http://www.sco.com/scosource/complaint3.06.03.html The Ultimate Hypocrite (www.sco.com runs on Apache/ GNU/Linux http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?mode_u=off&mode_w=on&site=www.sco.com&su bmit=Examine This story is giving both IBM and SCO free publicity. But one cannot help thinking of the possible implications to the FLOSS movement. Also SCO slurs the GNU organisation and also gives IBM undue credit for where GNU/Linux is today. Looks like the rising popularity of GNU/Linux has ruffled the feathers of quite a few heavyweights in the software industry. Sun grudingly accepted GNU/Linux and now SCO is fighting the inevitable. Vinayak Hegde APGDST Student NCST-JUHU

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Internet offline
by philip＠konark.ncst.ernet.in 08 Mar '03

08 Mar '03

Sometime last week there was a thread on getting some websites online, and creating a kind of MSDN for Linux. 1. Check wwwoffle for slurping entire websites 2. Check LiDN for the Linux Developer's Network 3. Internet offline is a misnomer, it should be WWW offline. The Internet is just a network of networks. Offline it is nothing. Philip

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Fw: Fw: [ILUG-BOM] Meeting of 9th Feb
by Royce & Sharal Pereira 08 Mar '03

08 Mar '03

Hi, ----- Original Message ----- > sorry royce this time i m also confused so i will rather wait untill the > banner changes Hey, Cool,man! --Royce.

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Re: How to Start a LUG.....
by Rajiv S Banerji 07 Mar '03

07 Mar '03

Subject.....snip.... > 11. Info regarding setting up a Linux Usre's Group (Manoj Kumar Singh) ...... Check out this link http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/essays/newlug.html And peruse Rick's site for a while, while you're at it. Very infotaining! Brgds Rajiv

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Fw: Fw: [ILUG-BOM] Meeting of 9th Feb
by Royce & Sharal Pereira 07 Mar '03

07 Mar '03

Hi, would have been great if the *date* of the next meeting was also included to avoid doubt. --royce. ----- Original Message ----- > where NEXT means something that follows current > THIS means current or present. >The next meeting is going to be held in HBCSE at 4:00pm, visit

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Meeting of 9th Feb
by Amish Munshi 07 Mar '03

07 Mar '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, The next meeting is going to be held in HBCSE at 4:00pm, visit http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/hbcse/main/location Agenda:- Intro on ZOPE by Dr. Nagarjuna, followed by seminar on maintaining the website http://gnowledge.org A few other topics will be covered in the meeting. Bye. - -- Amish K. Munshi In GNU we trust. Visit http://munshi.dyndns.org/imp for my public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+aD9vbCDhioPGUZ4RAhJmAJ0X/gVxApvrma2JW6WQw7kYf8cy4QCgvUJc MVS217dHC6FLD8T+WSDk4GM= =b9cc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Eureka!! SM56 Internal Modem Driver Available
by Mohan Cheema 07 Mar '03

07 Mar '03

Hi Group, Sometimes before there was discussion in the group on the that sm56 motorola internal modem doesn't work on linux machine but now it is possible to use the above modem as the driver source code is been made available but it is not done by the modem company thanks to Mr. Rajes Kizhuveetil for writting the driver all you have to do is download the driver from www.sm56.tk untar it "make" and "make install" that's it you are done and now u can use the modem but the problem is it doesn't work with wvdial (Konsole dialer) But with kpp it works fine. So fellow luggers with the above modem now enjoy the internet connection with your internal sm56 modem Regards Mohan Cheema -- linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste (ksh(a)cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93)

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Fw: Fw: [ILUG-BOM] Re: seminar Meeting [OT]
by Royce & Sharal Pereira 07 Mar '03

07 Mar '03

> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 13:06:00 +0530 > From: "Royce & Sharal Pereira" <bethell(a)eth.net> > To: <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > Cc: <LinuxUsersGroupofbombay(a)unitek.com> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > which linux users group is this?? Dunno...(I'm new to the list & to Linux) saw it in one of the mails, was not sure, so cc'd them a copy. BTW, I'm now using Windows(ouch) but am keen on moving to Linux. Recently I came across Knoppix (Linux kernel 2.4.19). This is a CD you can directly boot from, with the option of installing on to HDD if you like. More at www.knoppix.de Right now I'm just playing around with it. Has anyone tried Knoppix? Like to hear your feedback! Thanks, --Royce. > rgds > jtdsouza(a)softhome.net

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Re: pvm help needed urgently
by Jojumon Kavalan 07 Mar '03

07 Mar '03

Use '-I' option. -I /usr/share/pvm3/include -Joju > > hi friends > need some help with pvm > > the daemon is running well, > but when i run programs with the pvm code, gcc gives an error that > it cannot find file pvm3.h > i guess i need to set some path right? > but what n how?? > > my pvm_root directory is /usr/share/pvm3 > > plz reply fast! > gurpreet >

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