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

[shirish]

at bottom :-

On 06/06/2015 01:55 AM, Vikas Tara wrote:
> 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!

Searching for the typos and fixing what I can find :)

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