[Debian-in-workers] Bengali in new Debian Installer

[Jamil Ahmed]

Hello Christian Perrier and Baishampayan Ghose.

I am Jamil Ahmed from Bangladesh, working for Ankur 
[www.ankurbangla.org] voluntarily. This group is engaged in localizing 
popular software/applications for Bangla/Bengali since 2002. Currently 
we are localizing the following packages, officially.

1. Gnome – starting with 2.4
2. KDE - starting with 3.x
3. OpenOffice.org - currently on 2.0
4. Fedora core - starting with FC2
5. Mandriva Linux - starting with MDK 10.1
6. SUSE Linux - starting with 9.2

Yesterday I came across a mail from Mr. Ghosh on his efforts in 
localizing the Debian Installer – 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/09/msg00002.html. 
Coincidentally, we were thinking of working on the [Graphical] Debain 
Installer too but were waiting for its stable release. As a result, we 
had not yet contacted Debian. The work of Mr. Ghosh is exciting because 
the preliminary stage is already over. Only the translations are 
required now.

As we have experience in Bangla l10n, we want to share our experience in 
this effort, which we believe will speedup the whole process. :)

We have a developers guide, http://www.bengalinux.org/devel_guide/. 
There is a translators guide too. We use a standard word list, which 
contains Bangla terms for commonly used English Technical terms- so that 
a standard jargon is maintained throughout the localized applications. 
Our volunteers come mostly from Bangladesh and India. Generally we 
localize for single set of Bangla - usable as both bn_BD and bn_IN.

Indeed Mr. Ghosh is the only contributor for Bangla D-I at the moment. 
But I think if we work together, we will be able to make the 
translations usable for both sides much more efficiently.

Please let me know your thoughts. :)

Thanks,
`Jamil Ahmed