“The task involves localising the user-interface and help
text of Linux and related applications and we expect this to take
around 2 years…”
[ Linux Today reader Prakash Advani writes: ]
The Indian Institute of
Information Technology, Bangalore’s Information for Development
Centre and FreeOS.Com are
looking for champions who can take up the cause of localising Linux
in Indian languages. The goal of this Indianisation project is to
ensure that the benefits of Information Technology percolate down
to the Indian masses. We want to make technology accessible to the
“other 90 percent” of India that does not speak English.