Promoting GNU/Linux in Asia...
From: Frederick Noronha (FN) (fred_at_bytesforall.org)
Date: 10/31/03
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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 02:49:19 CST
Can anyone help on this front? FN
* Internationalization solutions are badly needed. Organisations
can support the creation of free fonts. Languages like
Punjabi and Oriya (with 23 and 28 million speakers respectively)
don't have any free fonts as yet.
* College students could be helped with microgrants (say $200)
to help build socially-useful software.
* More educational software created for school students, with a
local flavour, would really help to take GNU/Linux forward.
* A magazine could be built to network the different groups
in Asia. India already has one, called LINUX FOR YOU (I'll
bring copies) but this focuses largely on India.
Free Software Foundation was publishing its magazine from
China, but I've not been able to see regular copies.
* LUGs need to be networked, to share resources/ideas.
* For countries where low-bandwidth is still a problem (many
in Asia), it would help to have a network that downloads
the latest software, and then sells the same through a
network of lowcost microenterprises.
* Efficient Asia-wide network for sharing information needs
to be set up.
* Discussions are on for setting up a
ProgrammersWithoutFrontiers kind of organisation. Asia
should think of its role in such a network.
* More affluent countries could think of ways of sharing
their skills with others.
* Asian Open Source directory could be created -- this
would help to build awareness of who's doing what.
A print directory could be thought of. FN
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