[Debian-in-workers] Re: Fwd: debian-in-workers@lists.alioth.debian.org; pravi.a@gmail.com; anivar@hackemail.com; vimaljoseph@gmail.com

[Soumyadip Modak]

On 12/20/06, Hussain KH <hussain.rachana at gmail.com> wrote:

> Respected Sir
>
> We are grateful for your timely action of including Rachana Font in the
> Debian distribution. It took nearly 6 years to complete the designing of the
> Rachana Glyphs. In January 2005 I successfully compiled the Rachana OTF and
> in May 2005 we declared it as GNU-GPL. Since I was ignorant of the
> formalities of the complete procedure of making GNU-GPL some confusion
> arose. Now with the help of You and Mr. Soumyadeep our efforts will finally
> reach the people who really owns the languages and its characters.
>
>

Heh, I hardly did anything. All credit to Christian and Jaldhar.



> Since we are a very informal group consisting of 6 persons and not having
> any external funding we couldn't yet launch our own website. Friends of
> Rachana (Mr. Anvar, Praveen, Vimal, Vivek, etc. who are working for
> Debian Malayalam localisation) have assured me yesterday to find an apt site
> to put the font for downloading by anyone.
>

If you need, I'll look into whether we can put up a site for Rachana and
Malayalam l10n on the shared host for Ubuntu-in.org. I think that there
shouldn't be much of a problem, considering the charter of Ubuntu-in already
talks of extending all possible help to fostering Free Software development
in India. However, somebody has to arrange for a domain name.

Baishampayan, can you have a look at this issue and ask the Ubuntu people if
it will be ok with them, since the server and bandwidth is still being
provided by Canonical



> Free Software Movement and GNU-LInux have got a great future in
> Kerala. Six months ago our State Government have taken a historic decision
> to teach Linux only for nearly 1.5 million high school students instead of
> Microsoft OS. Nearly half a million students join in this array every year.
> The movement is called it at school. And it will be a fitting reward
> for Rachana also that we too can share this greatness through Debian.
>

Which IMHO raises the need for Malayalam l10n to proceed as rapidly as
possible and deny any chance for proprietary software vendors to get a foot
in the door.


>
> The current efforts to localise Malayalam in Debian will have far reaching
> results in the Kerala State. More than education its impact will be social
> and political. Yes, it is indeed a part of the march towards the "other
> world" propagated by World Social Forum.
>
> Thanking you on behalf of Rachana and our friends, and expecting more
> support from you for Malayalam Linux
>


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Soumyadip Modak
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