[Hamara-devel] Mission and Vision statement of hamaralinux.org ?

[shirish]

at bottom :-

On 06/05/2015 07:24 PM, shirish wrote:
> at bottom :-
>
> On 06/04/2015 11:54 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
>> On 04/06/15 18:56, shirish wrote:
>>> at bottom :-
>>>
>>> On 06/04/2015 11:08 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
>>>> to enable things like rural access / access to computers for greater
>>>> numbers at lower cost.
>>>
>>> Have put it up at
>>> https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hamaralinux/1614599628788937?sk=info&tab=page_info&edited=mission
>>>
>>>
>> Still needs further edits - whichever way you read the statement it
>> primarily focuses on hamara as an educational distribution - which, as I
>> have said, is not the case.
>>
>> Do you want to have another crack at it - or do you want me to write it?
>>
>> I would prefer the former :)
>
> I wouldn't mind writing 10 times if need be, what I need to know is what
> am I missing, either in terms of the big picture or implementation there
> in.
>

It's a bit long but have modified it to this :-

We are in the process of building an general-purpose distribution for 
all using Debian as a base and hence would be a Debian-Derivative.

Target Audience -

The distribution is targeted towards Indian users as apart from 
English-speaking users (which are less than 5%) you have 95% people who 
speak about 150 odd languages in the country. While we do not have the 
resources to serve all the 150 odd languages at one go, we do hope to at 
least change the scenario of the top 5 Indian languages by numbers as 
far as language computing is concerned. Localization is and would figure 
prominently across our web presence wherever possible (certainly our 
websites) as well as all places where localization is possible as well 
as improve localization in all the software's we package and deploy as well.

There is also quite a large collection of softwares for people studying 
in specialized verticals such as finance, banking, Medicine, Engineering 
(Mechanical, Industrial you name it), humanities, arts the list just 
goes on and on which is not packaged for Debian. We will package them, 
document a bit of how they work and hope to have a community to drive 
all these verticals and more so we have a broad range of users and 
developers who use FOSS and share the expertise, understanding in their 
communities.

We also want to change the scenario where hosting, network 
infrastructure is done outside India to within India. This would be a 
better strategy then relying on American or European data-centres where 
a change in global politics may trigger non-access to those centres. The 
other benefit would be that the networking infrastructure would be 
better and it would be possible to have higher bandwidths at a low 
incremental cost as well.

One of our tasks is to maintain communication with the various upstreams 
and see where they are going and help out if necessary or even possible.

We are also want to help out developers. There are something like 15+ 
odd computer languages in Debian which is a drop when we see that there 
are something like 300+ odd computer languages out there.

Apart from all this, we also want to support small and medium businesses 
using the same distribution.

Apart from the above, we are also interested in encouraging DIY 
electronics to enable things like rural access / access to computers for 
greater numbers at lower cost in thousands of small towns and villages 
spread all over India and then subsequently neighbouring countries as well.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org