Comments on: What a waste of talent and money… http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/03/what-a-waste-of-talent-and-money/ A collection of jottings on various issues that excite no one else Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:20:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Virtual Keyboard « On a trail less travelled http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/03/what-a-waste-of-talent-and-money/comment-page-1/#comment-66916 Virtual Keyboard « On a trail less travelled Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:45:56 +0000 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/03/what-a-waste-of-talent-and-money/#comment-66916 [...] which is being promoted by Govt of West Bengal (Nevertheless see the recent postings by Sayamindu, Sankarshan, Runa on some controversies surrounding it). Then I converted Ankur’s Probhat layout which I [...] [...] which is being promoted by Govt of West Bengal (Nevertheless see the recent postings by Sayamindu, Sankarshan, Runa on some controversies surrounding it). Then I converted Ankur’s Probhat layout which I [...]

]]> By: First Blog » Blog Archive » What a waste of talent and money… http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/03/what-a-waste-of-talent-and-money/comment-page-1/#comment-66751 First Blog » Blog Archive » What a waste of talent and money… Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:30:10 +0000 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/03/what-a-waste-of-talent-and-money/#comment-66751 [...] What a waste of talent and money… [...] [...] What a waste of talent and money… [...]

]]> By: Arky http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/03/what-a-waste-of-talent-and-money/comment-page-1/#comment-66512 Arky Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:44:10 +0000 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/03/what-a-waste-of-talent-and-money/#comment-66512 A teacher from Kashmir University told me his experience of using some of fonts developed at CDAC and it was so bad that they threw it out and had to develop their own. Deja vu! A teacher from Kashmir University told me his experience of using some of fonts developed at CDAC and it was so bad that they threw it out and had to develop their own. Deja vu!

]]> By: A post of no importance | Random thoughts and serendipity http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/03/what-a-waste-of-talent-and-money/comment-page-1/#comment-65901 A post of no importance | Random thoughts and serendipity Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:09:41 +0000 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/03/what-a-waste-of-talent-and-money/#comment-65901 [...] recent times I have blogged about ‘non community based approach to l10n‘. There is a particular mail on the gnome-i18n [...] [...] recent times I have blogged about ‘non community based approach to l10n‘. There is a particular mail on the gnome-i18n [...]

]]> By: It only gets funnier… | Random thoughts and serendipity http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/03/what-a-waste-of-talent-and-money/comment-page-1/#comment-65583 It only gets funnier… | Random thoughts and serendipity Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:37:13 +0000 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/03/what-a-waste-of-talent-and-money/#comment-65583 [...] had mentioned Baishakhi Linux in passing in an earlier post. So, today a few of us received an interesting mail from Prof Anupam Basu of IIT-Kharagpur. The [...] [...] had mentioned Baishakhi Linux in passing in an earlier post. So, today a few of us received an interesting mail from Prof Anupam Basu of IIT-Kharagpur. The [...]

]]> By: Random thoughts and serendipity » How to get your translations/localization contribution integrated with existing communities http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/03/what-a-waste-of-talent-and-money/comment-page-1/#comment-65369 Random thoughts and serendipity » How to get your translations/localization contribution integrated with existing communities Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:47:11 +0000 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/03/what-a-waste-of-talent-and-money/#comment-65369 [...] I happened to re-read this fine piece of penmanship today. And in the light of recent incidents figured that it would not be out of place to muse about a few small steps that can get localization contributions integrated with existing communities. [...] [...] I happened to re-read this fine piece of penmanship today. And in the light of recent incidents figured that it would not be out of place to muse about a few small steps that can get localization contributions integrated with existing communities. [...]

]]> By: “Local Language Efforts” by the various government agencies « Sayamindu’s Ramblings http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/03/what-a-waste-of-talent-and-money/comment-page-1/#comment-64784 “Local Language Efforts” by the various government agencies « Sayamindu’s Ramblings Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:59:21 +0000 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/03/what-a-waste-of-talent-and-money/#comment-64784 [...] Posted by Sayamindu 0 minutes ago The government has recently shown a lot of interest about Free/Open Software, especially in the area of localization for Indian/Indic languages. However, this well meaning interest has resulted in some totally clueless individuals and agencies being delegated to work on these issues, resulting in a major mess. The prime example of this would be BOSS Linux, which has not bothered to work with the community in any way (at least for the translations), and a result, it looks like a large amount of work (paid for from the tax payer’s money) is going to be wasted. Gora has started a thread on the gnome-i18n mailing list on this, and we can see no easy way to reutilize the work done. Interestingly, as per the comments in Sankarshan-da’s blog post on this matter, the government agency responsible for this had actually contacted some people in the community (via a 3rd party), offering to pay around USD 0.07 per string translated. The condition was that the work needed to be secret and exclusive for BOSS. That’s interesting for an “Open Source” project, funded by the government. [...] [...] Posted by Sayamindu 0 minutes ago The government has recently shown a lot of interest about Free/Open Software, especially in the area of localization for Indian/Indic languages. However, this well meaning interest has resulted in some totally clueless individuals and agencies being delegated to work on these issues, resulting in a major mess. The prime example of this would be BOSS Linux, which has not bothered to work with the community in any way (at least for the translations), and a result, it looks like a large amount of work (paid for from the tax payer’s money) is going to be wasted. Gora has started a thread on the gnome-i18n mailing list on this, and we can see no easy way to reutilize the work done. Interestingly, as per the comments in Sankarshan-da’s blog post on this matter, the government agency responsible for this had actually contacted some people in the community (via a 3rd party), offering to pay around USD 0.07 per string translated. The condition was that the work needed to be secret and exclusive for BOSS. That’s interesting for an “Open Source” project, funded by the government. [...]

]]> By: Anivar Aravind http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/03/what-a-waste-of-talent-and-money/comment-page-1/#comment-64739 Anivar Aravind Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:42:43 +0000 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/03/what-a-waste-of-talent-and-money/#comment-64739 Sankarsan, Last year (on august 2007) CDAC people contacted me through a 3rd party and Offered Rs 3 /string for completing the remaining translations in gnome. But the condition was it need to be secret and exclusive for BOSS . Because of the secrecy and SMC's upstream policy I rejected the offer. I asked them to support SMC publicly for the work we are doing in upstream. But no info after it. Now we can calculate the wastage of public money as No of strings in BOSS x Rs 3 Anivar Sankarsan,

Last year (on august 2007) CDAC people contacted me through a 3rd party and Offered Rs 3 /string for completing the remaining translations in gnome. But the condition was it need to be secret and exclusive for BOSS . Because of the secrecy and SMC’s upstream policy I rejected the offer. I asked them to support SMC publicly for the work we are doing in upstream. But no info after it.

Now we can calculate the wastage of public money as No of strings in BOSS x Rs 3

Anivar

]]> By: Kartik Mistry http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/03/what-a-waste-of-talent-and-money/comment-page-1/#comment-64732 Kartik Mistry Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:49:29 +0000 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/03/what-a-waste-of-talent-and-money/#comment-64732 I was about to post CDAC's dumb efforts for BOSSLinux and the way their dumb developers on various Debian IRC channels. I am completely annoyed that they are now trying to add their poor quality stuffs in Debian. I was about to post CDAC’s dumb efforts for BOSSLinux and the way their dumb developers on various Debian IRC channels. I am completely annoyed that they are now trying to add their poor quality stuffs in Debian.

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