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http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2007/08/10/users-of-localized-operating-systems/ A collection of jottings on various issues that excite no one else Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:24:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.17 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2007/08/10/users-of-localized-operating-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-39078 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:24:42 +0000 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2007/08/10/users-of-localized-operating-systems/#comment-39078 […] OpenOffice.org as an application forms an important means to ensure that there are “users” of localized operating system environments. As more and more citizen centric applications move towards the web (and that’s another rock solid reason for you to attend the Mozilla Project Day too), the data archival and transaction would be required to be undertaken using Open Standards (read that as ODF). This is where OpenOffice.org comes into the picture. However, this is a pretty simplistic elucidation of the scenario which would perhaps appeal to the developers who would like to contribute to OpenOffice.org through creating extensions and experience enhancers (hint: the Project Day has all that). What the Project Day should allow the OpenOffice.org team is to understand how the “standards battle” transcends mere developer interest and meshes into user interest as well as get them talking about the Education Project. The general idea behind the Project Day is to ensure that there is an increase in the quantum of developer contribution which is not only limited to translation of the UI, but extending into QA among other things. This of course does not exclude the sharing of war stories related to migration, widgets and plug-ins created around the application. What the team expects is a healthy dose of interaction and free flow of ideas which can be made part of the various sub projects that make up OpenOffice.org […]

]]> http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2007/08/10/users-of-localized-operating-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-33786 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:00:32 +0000 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2007/08/10/users-of-localized-operating-systems/#comment-33786 […] The last point is somewhat telling. There are not many bugzilla entries related to l10n from a usage model or even from a document consumption model. So, even though a significant number of installation, administration and deployment guides are available in the local language (at least for RHEL), there is little or nothing in terms of feedback that can improve the documents. Sometime back I had written about users of localised operating systems. This is an area which Indic l10n might require to address to get at a seamless experience. The current method of asking for guidance on multiple lists some of which mostly end up as “change the operating system to get better experience” is not really a way forward. Rather, it is a huge step backward. For Fedora to become extremely popular in non English speaking places – we need to reach out and record the current issues that high touch users of non English systems have. The current process/workflow generally includes folks who are fluent in their mother tongue and English and generally use English as the language of choice for daily work. It is the other huge group who are perhaps fluent in one or two languages but explicitly use the mother tongue for daily work that should be the focus now. […]

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