Re: [Savannah-hackers] Clarification.

[Vivek Varghese Cherian]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 10:58:11PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
>>>On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 02:44:31AM +0400, Vivek Varghese Cherian wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> Let me introduce myself as Vivek Varghese Cherian,a 25 year old
>>>> Cochin based engineer,who is now into systems/network administration.
>>>> 
>>>> I had a conversation with Mr.Mahesh.T.Pai today and came to know that
>>>> you are in charge of the GNU malayalam localisation program.
>>>> 
>>>> I would like to inform you of my intrest in developing a project to
>>>> offer malayalam support to the GNU operating system.
>>>> 
>>>> With this aim in mind i have applied for a project titled "Malayalam GNOME 
>>>> Project" aimed at offering malayalam support for GNOME at the 
>>>> savannah.gnu.org website.
>>>> 
>>>> I would like to avoid conflict of intrests with the Swathantra Malayalam
>>>> Computing Team, as i came to know later, (after applying for the 
>>>> registration ofMalayalam GNOME Project), from Mr.Mahesh.T.Pai, that there 
>>>> was work in progress regarding localisation of GNOME to malayalam by the 
>>>> Swathantra Malayalam 
>>>> Computing team.
>>>> 
>>>> I can cancel the "Malayalam GNOME Project"at the savannah,in case you feel 
>>>> theremay be a conflict of intrests between SMC and the "Malayalam GNOME 
>>>> Project".
>>>
>>>
>>>We did not review your project yet.
>>>
>>>However, you may want to contact the GNOME team and SMC to see how you
>>>can best interact with each others. Most often, translations do not
>>>require changes in the source code, and people send translated .po
>>>files; unless the translation is done by a team, there is usually no
>>>need to create a Savannah project.
>>>
>>>Keep in mind that you contacted the Savannah administration. We only
>>>maintain Savannah itself, not the project it hosts. So you really
>>>should contact the GNOME team.
>>>


An idea was suggested yesterday that the name of the project be changed
from the "Malayalam GNOME project" to the "GNU-Malayalam Project" and
that would solve the issue of conflicting intrests if at all there may
arise one.

I did re-apply with the new name "GNU-Malayalam Project", and i also did
re-articulate the objectives of the new project and also incorporated
some ideas on how the "GNU-Malayalam Project" can fund itself and also
contribute to the Free Software Foundation.

My idea is to form a team, and not to do the project myself, as this may
consume a lot of time. The inspiration for this project came from the
PUN Linux team who transilated the GNOME interface to punjabi in a very
short span of time. The team included engineering students like myself
and iam optimistic that given the chance we will able to form a highly
motivated,goal oriented team that will be able to complete the project
within a set time frame. It is for this exact reason that i applied for
a project status on the savannah.

My request to you is to kindly re-view the project under the new name
"GNU-Malayalam Project", and if its newly articulated objectives, which go
beyond just transilating the GNOME interface to malayalam as was the case 
when it was applied under the name "Malayalam GNOME Project", are found to be 
worthy in the eyes of the savannah administration, then kindly approve it as
early as possible so that we can form a team and start working on it at the 
earliest.


Regards,

Vivek Varghese Cherian.