Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Libre Office Marketing activities in India

> On Sunday, May 4, 2014 10:14 PM, Charles-H. Schulz <charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org> wrote:

> > Rajesh, Kannan, Chandrakant,
>
> Le Fri, 2 May 2014 12:50:49 -0700 (PDT),
> Rajesh Ranjan <rajeshkajha@yahoo.com> a écrit :
>
> >  > On Friday, May 2, 2014 11:30 PM, Charles-H. Schulz
> >  > <charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
> >  > > Rajesh, Kannan, Chandrakant,
> >  > 
> >  > This is getting interesting :-)
> >  > 
> >  > May I suggest we work this in two "streams"?
> >  > - check who is currently working on Indic langages localizations,
> >  > what localization of constitutionally recognized language is
> >  > currently missing and who may work on it
> >  > 
> >
> >  Here is the list who is who of Indian libreoffice l10n as per the
> >  language team list :-)
> >
> >  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
>
> Cool, thanks! It is an impressive list to be sure.
>
> >  On status page, all languages' translation are present though
> >  language teams are for only for the ^^ mentioned names. Teams need to
> >  be created for the following: Dogri, Kashmiri, Konkani, Manipuri,
> >  Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi. Chandrakant is eager to push the
> >  translation for these languages. Probably the previous translations
> >  done for openoffice (possibly by c-dac) are here with libreoffice.
>
> yes, although it depends on what happened with how active the people
> were in 2010-2011 though.
>
>
> >  Through English is not in official 22, but I have added en-GB as well
> >  as this is one official language and its important in India is not
> >  less. So for overall promotion purpose we can count this language
> >  also.
>
> good point.
>
> >  > - on this mailing list, discuss and define a few concrete actions
> >  > to raise LibreOffice awareness in India and improve its
> >  > distribution. 
> >  > 
> >
> >  Sure...I have not any problem start discussing here right now but
> >  would like to come here with inputs from other languages' team
> >  maintainers and possibly after a face-to-face cum irc meeting with
> >  the people mentioned from lo team. This will be a inclusive view and
> >  would be more helpful to work for the plan decided here on the on the
> >  mailing list later. 
> >
> >  > What do you think?
> >
> >
> >  Hope this is okay?
>
> Absolutely yes. Kannan has already explained the kind of wonderful work
> they're doing on their side. Not knowing the Indian field reality
> myself, I suggest you could discuss or even answer the following
> questions:
> - 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?
> - let's run a local , small scale event somewhere in India and see who
>   shows up. Repeat these events around the country.
>
> Last but not least: do organize an IRC meeting or a physical meeting. I
> think it's important.

Thanks for writing in detail. This will help us in ideation about the libreoffice awareness in 
India. I have planned an event for ideation about libreoffice in India on 16th May with Chandrakant 
in Pune (India). We will discuss in detail about the points you suggested as well along with all 
other related items. I will post the detail of the event tomorrow here on the list. Hopefully the 
event will be attended by good numbers of libreoffice contributors/language coordinators.

regards,
Rajesh

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