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

[Vikas Tara]

On 05/06/15 15:53, shirish wrote:
> 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.
>
Yep - that covers it really well - few typos - but otherwise spot on!