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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hussain KH</b> <<a href="mailto:hussain.rachana@gmail.com">hussain.rachana@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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<div>Respected Sir</div>
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<div>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.
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<div>Heh, I hardly did anything. All credit to Christian and Jaldhar.</div>
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<div>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.
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<div>If you need, I'll look into whether we can put up a site for Rachana and Malayalam l10n on the shared host for <a href="http://Ubuntu-in.org">Ubuntu-in.org</a>. 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.
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<div>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</div>
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<div>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
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:it@school" target="_blank">it@school</a>. And it will be a fitting reward for Rachana also that we too can share this greatness through Debian.</div></blockquote>
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<div>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.<br> </div>
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<div>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.
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<div>Thanking you on behalf of Rachana and our friends, and expecting more support from you for Malayalam Linux</div></blockquote>
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<div><span class="sg"> </span><br>-- <br>Soumyadip Modak<br><a href="mailto:soumyadip.modak@gmail.com">soumyadip.modak@gmail.com</a><br><a href="mailto:soumyadip@ubuntu-in.org">soumyadip@ubuntu-in.org</a><br><a href="http://soumyadip.freemind.in/blog">
http://soumyadip.freemind.in/blog</a> </div>