LibreOffice India

An Idea




Rajesh Ranjan           Chandrakant D.



Background



  • Kannan, Rajesh, Chandrakant discussed on the thread with Charles


  • We knew that very few activity for libreoffice promotion is happening


  • So decided to have a meet-up - meet-up for ideation - something like how to start with libreoffice in India





Current Scenario - Language

Assamese - Nilamdyuti Goswami
Bengali (India) - Sankarshan/Runa
Bodo - Sanjib Narzary
English - Stuart Swales
Gujarati - Ankit Patel
Hindi - Rajesh Ranjan
Kannada - Vikram Vincent/Shankar Prasad
Maithili - Sangeeta Kumari
Malayalam - Manu Unni V G
Marathi - Sandeep Shedmake
Nepali - Saaz Rai
Oriya - Manoj Kumar Giri
Punjabi - A S Alam
Tamil - Ve. Elanjelian
Telugu - Arjuna Rao Chavala/Krishnababu Krothapalli
Urdu - Khunshan Shabbir



Current Scenario - Promotion

  • SELF   workshops on LibreOffice and a to a lesser extent on Linux - being done by same group - Thanks to Kannan and team - wonderful project
  • Red Hat has language team, lots are contributing in l10n work
  • C-DAC has been involved in training (face-to-face) various Govt. offices and educational institutions

Some Plan


  • Kannan Trying to come up with Print edition of LibreOffice Manuals (500 copies) to promote LibreOffice in colleges, who need a "printed book" for the software to be included in their curriculum - awesome!


Some Suggestions

  • Dictionary & spell-checker for Libreoffice/OOo - Aspell & hunspell
    have been stagnant for quite long


  • Cliparts - some Indian specific artwork/graphics/icons.


  • Templates or Style guide on Indic text layout/styling in documents,
    presentations, graphics. This could also give tips on how to do DTP
    like work in Libreoffice


  • Font packs - say a meta package could be defined - libreoffice-hindi-fonts , which would go ahead and pull all available
    fonts.

                                Karunakar's suggestions on Indlinux


Some Suggestions


  • How do we raise brand awareness on LibreOffice in India
  • Are there specific approaches we can take to promote and have people
  • Download LibreOffice? Is the distribution of physical supports (cd-roms, usb keys) a better way?
  • LibreOffice is meant for pretty much everyone, but do we have to target a key population at first?
  • LibreOffice is a community too: can we attract volunteers, developers, localizers, QA testers, documentation writers?
  • Start with small scale event somewhere in India and see who shows up. Repeat these events around the country.

Ideation



Brainstrom for LibreOffice India



लिब्रेऑफिस के लिए माथापच्ची कीजिए








Thanks!

शुक्रिया!

Libreoffice India

By Rajesh Ranjan

Libreoffice India

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