[Debian-in-workers] Re: [DebianIndia] Debian-IN

[AP Singh Alam]

--- Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:

> 
> > If you feel that there are some more higher
> priority tasks that need
> > prior attention, I'll be glad to take your
> feedback to see if I can
> > participate on them.
> 
> 
> Well, experience for other languages has shown that
> localizing the
> Debian Installer (D-I) brings a lot of attention on
> a language.
> 
> My own goal as one of the D-I i18n coordinators is
> to covers as many
> Indic languages, and more generally, as many
> languages from South and
> South-East Asia, as possible.
> 
> So, thinking about starting localization efforts of
> D-I could be one
> of the high priority tasks mentioned above.
> 
> Currently, we have an initial effort for Hindi and
> Punjabi (using the
> Gurmukhi script for Punjabi).
> 
> Hindi was started by Ravishankar Shrivastava and
> Punjabi by Amanpreet
> Singh Alam. I don't remember whether both of them
> follow this list
> (debian-in-workers), so that's why I CC them...
> 
I m following list:)

> The discussions I had with Jaldhar at Debconf5 have
> shown that this
> definitely seems to be the time we can federate
> energies to make
> Debian THE distribution adapted for Linux use in
> India and surrounding
> countries (I also include there Pakistan, given the
> joined efforts
> I've seen in indlinux, as well as all other South
> Asia countries).
> 
> Several signs show that energies are
> federating....let's continue to
> blow on the fire..:-)
> 
> 
> PS: while on holidays, I also made some work on
> tasksel, the tasks
> selector used at the end of Debian installs. There
> will soon be
> initial tasks for several new languages....which
> will probably need to
> be completed with more specialized stuff (fonts, of
> course....or any
> stuff related to input methods).
> 
good news:)

regards
Amanpreet Singh Alam
Punjabi Translator
> 


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